CVA interchangle parts

As I suspected the Mountain Stalker Barrel drops right into the Plainsman stock. All parts are the same. Even the wedge pin fits in perfectly placed.

The barrel of the plainsman is kinda beat. I put it in some molasses solution and it will sit there a couple days.

The stock from the Plainsman is solid but needs to be stripped down and re-stained. I am just going to use a simple wood stain, not going to go a traditional stain.

Plan of action is just drop my nice lock, trigger and barrel into the re-stained Plainsman stock when it is finished. Then if the Plainsman's barrel is salvable, I will put it and the parts from the Plainsman on my Barbie Pink Mountain Stalker rifle stock. (Yes I have a self made Barbie's Muzzle Loader and it is adorable.)

Yes I have a self made Barbie's Muzzle Loader and it is adorable.

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:shocked2: Your such a girl!

:thumbsup:

Two years ago my bow broke and was unrepairable 2 days before cow season. Two choices, 1. Use daughters pink bow (exact same bow and sights etc.) 2. Buy another camo bow. Was damn tempting but I knew wife would stop a post hunt replacement purchase. I woulda looked good with my first archery cow killed in pink!

exact same lock, exact same trigger, exact same escutcheons, exact same shape to the rifle, one is plastic, one is wood
The only real difference is what the stamped on the barrel. One says Mountain Stalker, one says it is a Plainsman.

Same with the Bobcat it seems. I still can't figure out the difference between a Mountain Stalker and a Bobcat. Never had a chance to hold them side by side. I do have a stock from a Bobcat and one from a Mountain Stalker and they are the same. I think that the only difference is that the Mountain Stalker was the Bobcat made for one of the sporting good stores.

Locks on these rifles and the Hawken Pistol are the exact same lock. All are interchangeable with each other.

The only difference between the various CVA half stock single wedge pin rifles is the material used for the stock {wood or synthetic} for many, and others it is a question of wood quality or a mater of extra furnishings or quality of furnishings.

All CVA Half Stock single wedge pin rifles are the same gun with minor differences.

I've a cva frontier carbine, and cva mountain stalker pro and everything interchanges. One has a 26" barrel and the other a 24". Other than one having ceracoat and a 1/ 32" twist and the other 1/48" twist they are the same.

Which one has the 1:32 twist?

Stock has been sanded down and re-stained. I went with Min-Wax Red Oak. Pretty much my go to stain for everything. I love the color of the stuff.
The finish will have to wait until tomorrow.

I'd post pictures but I ain't paying photo bucket for 3rd party viewing.

My plastic stocked, Mountain Stalker is marked 1 in 48. It was just under $50 from Bass Pro. The catalog came in the mail and the gun was on the cover - I walked to the computer and ordered it at once. Ugly thing but it shoots fine and I don't worry about scratches.

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I'd post pictures but I ain't paying photo bucket for 3rd party viewing.

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Use imgur or some other free hosting site.....I would love to see it....

By the way?...I have a late 80's CVA parts book...about 90% of the part numbers are the same from model to model.

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Which one has the 1:32 twist?

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Frontier Carbine is 1/48. I used to have one. It's the one that got away. Great little shooter.

Still waiting on the stain to cure up good. Almost done.
I'll put the finish coat on tomorrow and then put it together by Saturday.

I have wanted a wood stock for the Mountain Stalker barrel for a long time.

Stain is looking good so far.

The stain was cured this morning. I set a gloss coat on it. Because I like shiny guns.

Checked on the parts I stripped the rust off of and then went to get my cold blue...guess what I used up on my last restoration and didn't replace?

So that part of the project is on hold. I got to get some bluing. The barrel I plan on putting on the stock has a very nice factory blue finish still on it. The lock and estchuions are plain metal now. Gotta fix that.

The barrel I thought might be a tomato stake is actually probably functional. I cleaned it up real good. Really needs to get a new breach plug and drum, they don't look as nice as I like. Not a job I can do. I'll get that barrel mounted on a Bobcat/Mountain Stalker stock eventually. I got 3 of them. Right now I am making this other rifle.

I got the second coat of clear gloss on the stock. My is she nice and shiny. Looks brand new. Which is spiffy because it came to me beat up, scratched and the butt caked in mud. I knew there was a fine stock in there.

However I found a small hair line crack in the stock over the trigger area, under the tang, that was not noticeable until I got it stripped down. I don't think it will be a problem due to where it is placed. I have seen many rifles with this very same flaw and it never seems to interfere in any way. My Renegades former stock had the same flaw but larger. I replaced that stock just in case but I don't know I needed too...
It is a very fine hair line that was hard to detect when I had it stripped down and impossible to spot before I stripped it. Now it is even harder to see again. I suspect as soon as it is shot a few times the fine carbon layer that will develop on that spot will obscure it.

I have some cold blue on the way. Probably be here by Monday. I should have checked my supplies before I went to town on this rifle. Hindsight. So instead of targets on Sunday, it will be targets on Tuesday.

I messed up a couple of small parts of the clear coat. Think I am just going to let it slide. I had to point them out to Sevan for her to notice and I am tired of futzing with it.

Put it all together and it looks pretty snazzy.

But I just don't dare go shooting it in the back yard. It is a tinderbox out there.
Desperately praying for rain. By the grace of God we have managed to avoid fires around here but the entire region is burning. From British Columbia all the way to California and in Idaho. The air quality is so bad I am only going outside when I must and it has been this way for weeks. We did get a day or two here and there without the smoke.

If it doesn't rain before the season starts I am not hunting this year. I have had a few close calls with muzzleloaders and wildfire and I am not going to be the one to start a forest fire.

Right now, flickr is your friend.

Cynthialee said:

exact same lock, exact same trigger, exact same escutcheons, exact same shape to the rifle, one is plastic, one is wood
The only real difference is what the stamped on the barrel. One says Mountain Stalker, one says it is a Plainsman.

Same with the Bobcat it seems. I still can't figure out the difference between a Mountain Stalker and a Bobcat. Never had a chance to hold them side by side. I do have a stock from a Bobcat and one from a Mountain Stalker and they are the same. I think that the only difference is that the Mountain Stalker was the Bobcat made for one of the sporting good stores.

Locks on these rifles and the Hawken Pistol are the exact same lock. All are interchangeable with each other.

The only difference between the various CVA half stock single wedge pin rifles is the material used for the stock {wood or synthetic} for many, and others it is a question of wood quality or a mater of extra furnishings or quality of furnishings.

All CVA Half Stock single wedge pin rifles are the same gun with minor differences.

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I have a Mountain Stalker and it came from Cabelas,so you might be right on the difference between it and the Bobcat.

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Still waiting on the stain to cure up good. Almost done.
I'll put the finish coat on tomorrow and then put it together by Saturday.

I have wanted a wood stock for the Mountain Stalker barrel for a long time.

Stain is looking good so far.

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You know we want to see pictures... :wink:

I'm not signing up for yet another web based service.

I get enough manure emails as it is.

Basic bare bones CVA, wood, half stock rifle, single wedge pin, with a dark stain and rather glossy.

I want to shoot it and see how it has changed my barrels performance. I am hoping I can feed it at least 70 grains of 3f and get a good group and no more than 90 grains. If I can find a good load somewhere in there then it should work for me well.
Between the land being a tinderbox and the smoke being thick enough to eat with a fork I don't see any shooting in my near future. If I am in a cloud of smoke it needs to be a big sudden puff, smell of sulfur and then clear out so I can see the target.