A & H used Spanish made barrels and you never saw them exploding.

When cva was actually cva they had the cva apollo on certain years that had a problem with breechplug failure and those have been the only cva rifle reported to have a failure that was not the users fault. 95-96 i believe are the year recalls. There are still apollos out there that are safe to use. Savage had problems with barrels exploding, TC in the 1970's had some issues with certain model barrels exploding on their sidelocks. This whole spanish barrel stuff is way over the head and is no longer a problem when you use your head and read your manual and know what the limit on each rifle is. What you have now are so called muzzleloader experts that come out to bash other brands while promoting other brands so they can fill their pockets. Take Randy Wakeman for example, hes a big BPI basher yet in his opinion, the winchester x-150 is one of the best muzzleloading rifles you can buy for $240 from what he says. Ive seen pictures of an exploded barrel on a TC encore and everyone that saw it started crying and calling it foul play, they did it on purpose. Wheather thats true or not, noone will know. You all know i own nothing but CVA rifles and have owned TC before. Every cva/bpi rifle i own has never let me down and never had problems. The "experts" like to throw out articles to scare people away from certain brands and run them into their pockets. Even GM had recalls on some barrels that were dangerous. And if these spanish made barrels were so dangerous, why dont the big shots that are looking to shut these companys down, buy barrels and start testing??? They dont do it because they know they would only help the spanish barrels by proving that they can stand the pressures of 3 pellet loads with a 348 grain bullet and therefore, they would only screw them selves by doing the testing.