I once had a CVA. Left it in my truck one day during hunting season but I forgot to lock my doors. Woke up the next day only to discover someone had placed their CVA in the truck, too.
no way in hell, after this movie came out and I got old enough sometime around 77 I went out and bought a Thompson Center 50 caliber flintlock Hawken, 43 years later I still have it
You can keep your in lines. To me they are just an attempt to get around the spirit of muzzle loader only areas and seasons by having a modern rifle meeting the technicalities of being a muzzle loader. CVA should bring back their old Mountain rifle which is now a sought after collector item among traditional black powder shooters.
Unfortunately the market has turned away from the traditional black powder guns. It became no longer cost effective for us to continue to produce them, while the demand for in-lines continued to rise. Because of this, we had to make the hard decision to cut those lines, and focus on what our customers were demanding. I am sorry that you feel this way about our newer products. Thanks, Taylor CVA Digital Support
There must still be a fair market for them as Traditions, Pedersoli, Loyalist Arms and Middlesex Village all sell traditional side locks. Not to mention all the semi-custom makers like Northstar West and TVM who are so busy they run 6-7 months behind on orders.
1963lwrnc You are correct, there is a market for sidelocks. However, our customers, such as Bass Pro, Cabelas, Gander Mountain, etc. and our distributors such as Ellet Brothers, Jerry's Sports Center, Zander's, etc. that sell to smaller gun shops have requested that we sell inlines, based on what their customers want.
Like the compound bow brought more people into archery, the online has probably brought more people to black powder as to hunt during black powder season.
The movie, Jeremiah Johnson is enjoyed by all people. hunters and those who do not hunt. It has everything - a romance, a desire to live in the wilderness and the sabotaging of that dream by a pushy non-Native American, who asks for Jeremiah's help and puts Jeremiah and his family in harm's way. I have watched it at least 10 times and always find the ending sad..
I just bought a .54 Cal. Lyman Great Plains Rifle. I can't wait to go shoot it. I've been shooting black powder for many years, all of my bp rifles, smoothbores, and pistols have been Mex war/Civil War repops by Euroarms, Armisport, and Uberti. Next I want to buy a .45 cal. Kentucky style rifle. I love the look and the feel of the old BP guns, and shooting them is a good time. But I would never buy an inline. I just don't understand why anyone would want to shoot black powder if it isn't traditional. What's the point?
Nazi style infringement of rights worse punishments here then in current germany or former nazi Germany once deemed an "untrustworthy." Told my "freedom" will cost between $3,500-$10,000 fdr's, my horrific crime, warding off attacker w/knife, I posted the surveillance that caught it all, cops somewhat manipulated it through cause attacker turned out to be former cop and current resource officer at school for retards
Muchas de las armas de avancarga clásicas que comercializó CVA en USA, se fabricaron en España por la empresa Dikar, en los 70 y 80. El "Mountain" rifle es excelente. Yo he tenido varios, de calibre 50 , 54 y 58. Son rifles muy apreciados en España para competir con ellos, y por supuesto para cazar. Saludos.
Many of the classic muzzleloading rifles that CVA marketed in the USA were manufactured in Spain by the Dikar company in the 70s and 80s. The "Mountain" rifle is excellent. I have had several, of caliber 50, 54 and 58. They are highly prized rifles in Spain to compete with them, and of course to hunt. Greetings.
Would have been better if the gun had been one of the early CVA Mountain Rifles. They looked more like a Hawken than what Thompson Center actually sold as a Hawken.
i can see this was made in 2014, too late now because i as well would have liked a cva flintlock, even another sidelock. my very first muzzle loader was a sidelock cva from kmart. best deal you could get for a beginner. i had a lot of problems with it going off consistently. then i learned that when its new you have to take out nipple, bolster and screw that goes into the end of the bolster and put a tiny bit of anti-seize when reassembling. this allowed my to keep my gun clean enough that it went off every time, even in rain, and do it often. any muzzle loader needs a lot of attention, i have new inlines that will rust inside the barrel no matter what and i feel are just as much of a pain as any other muzzle loaders i have had. shame that by the time i learned how to baby my rifle i had moved onto a different gun. i said too late now because if anybody had appealed to you (cva) concerning producing sidelock, flintlocks we would have seen it by now. by the way traditions has guns as well as kits, not a huge selection but they have them.
The little trailer they put up at the end telling how the movie inspired the bp movement then they totaly disrespect the movement by totally doing away with the line .
I've got 3 t/c Hawkins rifles,the 45,50 and 54 calbers and theres not even one cva ever made or will there ever will be one made that I'd trade it to now.i do have me a little cva wolf with a nikon buckmaster scope on it that my grandson comes up and uses it to hunt with me with.but his mother my daughter bought him that one.ive been trying to find me the 36 calber Hawkins rifle by t/c but it's like a needle in a haystack to try and find.so as long as these old 60 year old eyes can still see good enough I'll still hunt with my t/c Hawkins rifles!!!!!?????
I hope the inline rifles are much better quality than the old sidelocks they used to make. I traded for one once. Couldn't get it traded away fast enough. My TC's and Lyman's are much better guns.
Very funny guys... now how about some actual 300 yard targets... and 300 yard chronograph data.... with Powerbelt Aero 270 bullets and IMR WhiteHOT powder pellets...????
