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  1. Versanaut

    It happened again today at the public range...........

    Love it! Each of us is an essential advocate for our sport! Great work! Gotta love our thumping boom! Was hunting with my 45 flinter a couple years ago about a mile from the house. Very country setting, lots of gunfire all morning (open gun season in GA). I took a doe, and bided my time to...
  2. Versanaut

    Provisional hole in barrel is off

    Sorry gang, Unexpected family in town for Father’s day and had some family medical errands to help with today. A lot to digest here. As Phil points out, that is the exact cap I have, modifying it isn’t an option. And it’s hard to see in the picture, but the bolster/drum is center in the lock...
  3. Versanaut

    Provisional hole in barrel is off

    Greetings all, A couple years ago I inherited a CVA pistol kit from my grandfather. I started to tinker with dry fitting components when I noticed the nose cap, when aligned with the threaded hole in the barrel gives a large gap between the nosecap and the 'forearm' and the nose cap sits about...
  4. Versanaut

    CVA Kentucky.45

    100% Tack driver. I was given one a couple year ago and it quickly became my main match gun. After a couple years, I finally took it out of service to clean it up. It was originally slapped together as a quick kit build in the 80s was the story it came to me with. If you can avoid it at...
  5. Versanaut

    CVA 45 cal barrel

    I had to replace the drum on my CVA 45 kentucky. I used the TOW drum. So far, so good on up to 70 grains.. Buuuuuuuuuuuut, it's a bear to get clean because the fouling fills all those exposed threads. And then drying it becomes an issue as I don't want damp residue in those crevices...
  6. Versanaut

    An Egg, a piece of bread and a paper bag.....

    My OA experience is similar to @BillinOregon 's except our breakfast was a 1/2 dixie cup of milk, the hard boiled egg, and bread were in a paper lunch bag. We weren't told there was a small cup of milk in the bag..... Between those experiences, and some crazy similar military experiences...
  7. Versanaut

    Hello from fl

    Welcome from the FL Space Coast!
  8. Versanaut

    Fiber shot cups?

    Just some food for thought here and pardon the reference to a slightly more modern brand of shooting, only by about 60 years so not too modern. Been loading black powder shotgun loads for cowboy action for a bit. Traditional square load using fiber wads. Had a hard time in the beginning as...
  9. Versanaut

    Anyone do a Sitting Fox Muzzleloaders Build ?

    I built a Sitting Fox kit a number of years ago for my 9 y/o. Was a CVA squirrel barrel and CVA lock, but the stock (Full length) and all the furniture was what you'd find in about any kit. Needed to finish inletting the lock and all the furniture, shape the stock, finish the brass, etc etc...
  10. Versanaut

    Lee R.E.A.L bullet

    I used to use the short REALs in my CVA mountain rifle. 24" 1:48 twist. Then I was hunting with it one year and heard the strangest sound as I was huffing it to my stand... Remember that toy we had as kids.. The plastic tube with a ball in it.. When you tilted the tube, the ball would roll to...
  11. Versanaut

    Ouch!

    Update on the Lock, Sent it the lock back to it's maker (Chambers) to be fixed and 'overhauled'. Found and addressed a worn sear nose, refreshed the frizzen (refaced and retempered) replaced weak frizzen spring... The lock is like new! MAN the sparks it throws now! It's amazing how things...
  12. Versanaut

    My Night Themed Rum Horn

    Beautiful work! Did you seal the inside with any sort of pitch/wax?
  13. Versanaut

    Hello from Orlando, Florida

    Welcome from the Space Coast of Florida! If you are on the East Side of Orlando, we hold a muzzleloader shoot the 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month at Titusville Rifle and Pistol Club.
  14. Versanaut

    Ouch!

    Huh..... I didn't consider the trigger. Tried it a bunch afterwards to try to replicate the problem. I had not yet set it because I had just fired, buuuuuuuuuut, what if the trigger hung from the last shot I wonder. It did go to half cock OK. I put it there to close the frizzen. hmmmmm.
  15. Versanaut

    Ouch!

    Hmmm, Cured 'Flinch' Fever - Check Dryballed Flinter - Check Cut fingers on flint - Check Broken flints on first strike - Check Shot attempted with no flint (fell out) - Check Leather, Lead, and sticks on the ground flint shim use - Check No spark on a hunting shot - Check 5-10 second hangfire...
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