Which mountain rifle?

[lbothell]

I'll second the CVA mountain rifle, more of the plains era being cap rifle's, but good lines, they shoot, if you can find a Big Bore in 54, that's not been to beat. Or one of the early ones that's stamped Made USA, in 50. Good hunting rifle's.

Well that’s just what I got a 54 so I’m pretty happy and it’s a LOW serial number with a clean bore. As for changing it over I just did it to a cva squirrel so I’m not to worried about it but I might just leave it

 

[BP Addict]

Well that’s just what I got a 54 so I’m pretty happy and it’s a LOW serial number with a clean bore. As for changing it over I just did it to a cva squirrel so I’m not to worried about it but I might just leave it

I heard that you can do it with a 10mm bolt. There's a fellow who works at the Gun Works here in Springfield that's done quite a few!

Where'd you end up finding one?

Walt

 

[lbothell]

I heard that you can do it with a 10mm bolt. There's a fellow who works at the Gun Works here in Springfield that's done quite a few!

Where'd you end up finding one?

Walt

I found a converter bolt on eBay but you still need to do some file work and drilling but it’s good to have! For the squirrel I just dremeled off the drum and am using that for now. Going to weld a little bead over the hole it left, file it down and redrill we did it before on an old gun and it worked well. Plus if it doesn’t I can just unscrew the whole thing out and make another one. As for the 10mm bolt I know a guy who did that as well! He is actually the one I got the 54 off of. It was his first muzzleloader he ever bought, I told him not to sale it but he said he never shoots it and insisted on selling so I couldn’t pass it up. It’s ugly as sin the stock is, but the bore is amazing so that’s all that matters

 

[BP Addict]

It doesn't look all that bad! It's got some character. How does it feel lifting to your shoulder?

Is the barrel 15/16" or 1"?

Walt

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

So these pictures are off the internet they are not mine, but I will use them to represent what I’m looking for. Both these guns in the pictures are cva ones a mountain rifle the other is the hawkens. You can see the mountain rifle is just a little longer then the hawkens and has two pins in the stock compared to one.

I believe the original Hawkens also had two wedges. I'm not sure why. You gotta be careful that one or the other doesn't fall out while you are hunting.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Many years ago I had a used CVA Mountain Rifle come into the shop. It had a broken ramrod, a lock that did not work and a pretty rough bore. I took it home over the weekend. Replaced the ramrod with a spare I had laying around, cleaned and adjusted the lock and scrubbed the bore extensively. The old gal cleaned up pretty well and I sold it the following week if memory serves. It didn't come back with complaints, so I assume she was a shooter.

Nearly all used guns will clean up to a reasonable standard and most of 'em will put bullets into a deer's kill zone just fine.

 

[lbothell]

It doesn't look all that bad! It's got some character. How does it feel lifting to your shoulder?

Is the barrel 15/16" or 1"?

Walt

It’s a 15/16 or that’s what my tape measure says hahah it pulls up nice and balances nice as well and like I said the bore is just about new it’s clean. The more I look at the old thing it kinda grows on me hahaha. My biggest dilemma now is do I convert it to flint or leave it as percussion...

 

[Mtman725]

It doesn't look all that bad! It's got some character. How does it feel lifting to your shoulder?

Is the barrel 15/16" or 1"?

Walt

I had a 15/16's CVA 50 bored out to 54 by RH, I like it better then the 1" CVA Big Bore, it balance's better not so muzzle heavy.