Well I received an early birthday gift. A good friend of mine sadly lost his home, along with all his smokepolls in a fire about a month ago. Yesterday, He presented me with a brand new CVA Optima V2. He had gone to buy himself a replacement inline for this coming deer season, and they happened to have two identical rifles side by side. He bought both and dropped by to give me one as "A token of friendship for all the help in their rough time with the house". I was a little taken aback by such a kind gesture....and am excited to get it out to the range.
This is really the first "modern" muzzle loader I've ever seriously had. I did mess around with an old staghorn Mag a while back, That some of you may remember (barrel cut and re crowned @ 18", and copper head snake camo...again )
But that was a short ordeal and I basically gave it away to a guy for his 14 year old daughter to deer hunt with. The Other was a Austin Hallock 420 I had for a long piece but never hunted with. Just used loose powder and whatever bullets I could scrounge to make it go boom. That was right when I got into Muzzle loading, and quickly got hooked on sidelocks.
To anyone that has one of these, what kind of accuracy are you getting and with what bullet? I have a couple packs of TC shock waves my dad used to use in his TC Cougar. And I bought a pack of "White-hots" pellets on the recommendation from one of the LGS guys.
This is really the first "modern" muzzle loader I've ever seriously had. I did mess around with an old staghorn Mag a while back, That some of you may remember (barrel cut and re crowned @ 18", and copper head snake camo...again )
But that was a short ordeal and I basically gave it away to a guy for his 14 year old daughter to deer hunt with. The Other was a Austin Hallock 420 I had for a long piece but never hunted with. Just used loose powder and whatever bullets I could scrounge to make it go boom. That was right when I got into Muzzle loading, and quickly got hooked on sidelocks.
To anyone that has one of these, what kind of accuracy are you getting and with what bullet? I have a couple packs of TC shock waves my dad used to use in his TC Cougar. And I bought a pack of "White-hots" pellets on the recommendation from one of the LGS guys.