CVA Mountain Rifle
lock7,
I believe that nice looking long gun you stole
D) is a CVA Mountain Rifle. I remember back in the late 70's CVA did a pretty good job of coming up with a decent, rendezvous ready rifle that was priced quite right for the working man. You could either buy one factory made, or the kit. I'd say someone who knew what they were doing found a kit with a nice piece of wood and did it up brown (literally). CVA really did a nice job back when they offered that model (history now). I've seen kit guns, with just a few modifications built up to look (and did) as good as most any custom gun made back then; poured nosecap, different sights, and a Hawken styled hammer were just a few things one could do to make them look truly in the custom gun class. Amazing, really, what a skilled gunmaker could come up with on one of those kits. Yours looks like whoever built that one, used the parts that came with the kit, and did a fine job on it. You have a real find there; a gem for sure.
I had a .50 cal. CVA Mountain Pistol I got in the kit with a piece of tiger stripe maple for the stock; it was a beautiful thing once built, and shot really quite well. I paid 50 bucks for that kit back in 1980, and I considered that a good deal even back then. There was a stack of those kits in a Shopko store and I was allowed to look at the wood in each one and found that tiger striped gem and took it home for the workbench. Wish I still had it, but a buddy got it (who still has it) and every now and then in a blue moon, I see it hanging on the wall in his house.
BTW, outstanding price on the ROA, too. Makes me want to try a gunshow again sometime; haven't been to one for quite a few years now...