CVA Wolf, accuracy with Powerbelts 

Thank you for the good video Sir! I agree. I've used 245 and 295 hollow point Powerbelts in 3 different rifles. They are accurate and expand well. After that, it's the Indian, not the arrow. So I take neck and shoulder shots which makes them just fall over instead of run. I'm old and lazy. I don't like tracking and dragging deer around.

I have a newer cva wolf, I use 150gr pellets with the same belted bullet. It’s a stake driver at 80yd. I will say that the recoil is absolutely ridiculous with the magnum charge, but I have definitely noticed an increase in accuracy with the 150gr charge.

I got the same gun and I love barns hollow point expanders out mine or the Thor. Bullets

I can tell you what helped money even more. Get some bore butter and get a thin layer around the powerbelt. This helped me tremendously

I remember with some scopes that tapping the turrets after the clicks helps.

My black wolf likes 110 gr of BH209 with a 250 gr Barnes T-EZ. I replaced power belts with the Barnes and getting better kills

I got the same exact gun just black and i use the white hot pellets with a 245 hollow point with a 3x9x40 golden antler scope and back in 2020 i shot a buck and a doe at about 40 yards buck was hit in spine didn't move of course doe was lungs all the way through she did a 180 and didn't move and also got a buck at about 200 to 250 couldn't really tell but he was out there don't know where he was hit exactly i think lower neck near chest he dropped and didn't move so from my experience with my first gun ive ever bought its a damn good gun and will shoot close and far with no problem

My wolf HATES powerbelt. But it groups like that at 100 with saboted 300gr xtp and 100gr pyrodex pellet.

Wish you'd been shooting the 295's, I've got fifty of those coming today. From the ones I've shot they don't just depend on the plastic skirt to seal to the riffling. The ones I've dug up had Good deep riffling on the bullet itself. They are very soft lead and swell up under pressure. You'll find a lot of videos of people knocking them because they expand TO good and don't fully penetrate a deer, thus very little or no blood trail. You'll also find that the same people are pushing them to hard with 150 grain powder charges. Stick with 100 grain powder charges or shoot deer a lot farther away and they'll work fine. Accuracy is number one. No deer has ever died from being missed by a poorly placed shot, a lot have been lost behind poorly placed shots though that didn't hit them in the kill zone.

Cva rifles all like cva bullets, stick with those👍🏻 they like the Hornady 44 mag-240s with green sabot too Happy Hunting!

I like powerbelts bullets

Thank you. Appreciate the example

I don't use loose powder. Pyrodex Pellets. Less mess and faster to load

Hornady 240 grains with black horn 209 you'll get a perfect group out of my wolf Hornady 44 caliber 240 grain 100 grains of powder 209 black horn

I have an older wolf, about the same results. With sabots, mine is only happy with really tight sabots. I like the bullet options with sabots but the power belts seem more accurate. I test new bullets any time i get a chance hoping to find a really good expanding bullet that it will be accurate with. Currently working with a Barnes copper SPTF Boat tail 285 gr. that seems promising with 100 grains.

That’s what my optima v2 likes I use 100 gr of pyrodex pellets. Got a nice doe last year

Thanks for sharing. Great video.

I've shot plenty of deer with one but I didn't use powerbelt bullets

Just watched your video for a second time. Caught where you said you used 90 grains of loose powder. Should work great on deer sized critters. Looks like they are shooting fine for you to me. Only thing I'd do now is shoot a group at 100 and see where they group. You might want to shoot an inch or two high at fifty if it makes you an inch or two low at 100? I can group about four inches with mine, so far, at 75 yards with Open sights. But I just got it. haven't shot it very much at all yet. I'm shooting two Pyrodex pellets. 100 grains because that's what I have or can get in my area. Shooting ten Powerbelt's the other day sighting it in the last one loaded as easy as the first one did. I like that about them and the Pyrodex anyway so far. I've got a lot of loose powder but have not tried that in it yet.

Got that dialed in now.

I get good with 100 grains of they shoot real good I've killed most deer one shot the only thing is what most people say is that there is not much blood my last deer went about a 100 yards no blood but I found him

Those bullets shot good from my cva but sucked on deer, I shot a doe at 15 yards, knocked her down, and she got up and ran away with no blood trail. I talked to other hunters said the same thing. No blood trail and lost deer.

Got a wolf as well.. just throwing it out there for you for another option.. I shoot 100gr of triple 7 pellets with a 240gr cheap shot sabot.. I'm getting 1 to sub moa 3 shot groups at 100 yards.. if you ever think about switching your set up

You already got the blackhorn breech plug have you ever thought about trying the powder. I’ve got a cva accura and that’s all I will shoot through it it burns cleaner and shoots faster with the same amount of powder it’s AWESOME stuff

No mention of what sabots your using? Sabots are known for basically being the most accurate MZ bullet there is but you gotta have quality. With any MZ if it’s shoot bullets terribly the thing to do is try different powder charges. The load/ bullet combo is critical. CVAs are known for being stupid accurate with high quality sabots. Get some Hornady ssts or monoflexs. Mine shoots 1/2 moA EASY at 200yards 250grain monoflex 115gn ( by volume) blackhorn 209. And make sure your using real 209 primers- not the once’s that’s day muzzleloder on them. Deer meat for dinner has a video of shooting 350 yards with that exact gun and those bullets.

It'll shoot a lot further than 50 yards

Who else is having trouble finding powder? I’m in SE Indiana, but the boxes and Midway are either out or charching ridiculous shipping.

There was not really much of a need to adjust it. Anything close enough to that would still kill a deer? It might not go down in 2 seconds, but it will go down within a couple minutes.

Depending on the bullet and powder charge you can potentially shoot out to 150 to 200 yards and kill a deer

are you using pellets or powder

No you have to now the Hodgkin bought blackhorn 209 it's not as clean as it used to be when it was Western powders not even close to get a group that's touching you have to clean in between shots it's I think all it is is triple seven now whatever Hodgkin owns but they just put blackhorn 209 on it

You sure won't be able to blame the gun if you miss.

New caliber...30-30 Marlin..?

And I use patched balls

Powerbelts are trash, i shoot 3 inch group at 300 yards with my cva shooting hornaddy sst but with power belts its shoots 18 inch group

Powerbelts are garbage

You need to thin the copper jacket