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45 Cal.
My brother purchased a .50 CVA Hawken at an auction recently. He called me and asked what it was worth and I told him that it might be worth $150 if it was in really nice shape. He said that it was clean and that he paid $120 for it. I told him that he probably made a good deal but that it wasn't a really highly desirable or high quality gun and asked what he was doing with it. He said that he was going to try to resell it to make a few bucks and I offered him $150 just out of curiosity. I doubt that he could have gotten much more than that for it anyway unless he found some chump that would give him more but he delivered it to me today and it looks like it may be in unfired condition. There's one minor scratch on the barrel but otherwise it looks as new and I see no evidence that it's ever had a flint in it or ever been sparked.
The last two digits of the serial number are 99, would that indicate the year of manufacture? It says CVA Hawken, made in Spain on the barrel but doesn't say anything else regarding who would have made the barrel (there are some proof marks on it). I see a few minor fit and finish issues with it which I had expected from a CVA (I've never previously owned one but always thought that there reputation was that of a so-so factory made gun). In general, what should I expect, were those barrels decent in the accuracy department? I'm really leaning towards trading it with a friend who's looking for a flintlock for his 17 year old son and who has an older imported 20 guage side by side that I think he'd trade me even up for the CVA. I'd appreciate any general thoughts on the quality of the gun, the lock or the barrel from those who have owned them or who are intimately familiar with that vintage CVA flintlock.
The last two digits of the serial number are 99, would that indicate the year of manufacture? It says CVA Hawken, made in Spain on the barrel but doesn't say anything else regarding who would have made the barrel (there are some proof marks on it). I see a few minor fit and finish issues with it which I had expected from a CVA (I've never previously owned one but always thought that there reputation was that of a so-so factory made gun). In general, what should I expect, were those barrels decent in the accuracy department? I'm really leaning towards trading it with a friend who's looking for a flintlock for his 17 year old son and who has an older imported 20 guage side by side that I think he'd trade me even up for the CVA. I'd appreciate any general thoughts on the quality of the gun, the lock or the barrel from those who have owned them or who are intimately familiar with that vintage CVA flintlock.