Never had any problems with my spanish barrels. Amazing what types of stories they come out with when so far ive only seen 1 cva with any major problems. Apollo. Never heard any reports of any other cva exploding. Other than people using to huge of bullets and more powder than they should. I once came across a guy shooting a traditions .50, the moron loaded up a 410+ grain greatlains bulle and 150 grains powder and hes like.. Why did my barrel explode?!! lol. Funny thing was, he was going to use all that powder and bullet on whitetails. My god, i guess people like ruining a lot of meat. 245/295 bullets are more than enough for deer size game. Im looking for a ML'er to buy my nephew and found it. Winchester is selling the plain jane x-150 for $220! You cant pass up that good of a deal and quality of rifle. Didnt TC has barrel problems in the 70s/80s with the 45cal hawken rifles and barrels exploding? could of sworn i came across that on a traditional MLing site.