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Necchi Yous right! I just pulled that CVA out of the jig and that beechwood sprang back a good way - I gained about 3/4 of an inch drop at the heel of the stock - maybe enough but woulda liked more - that wood never felt like it softened at any point whereas the Brazil Walnut (??) practice...

how do ya tip a ball? weeeel somethin moved - the patches were almost too small - get everything lined up neat and dont blink or wriggle with the short starter and it was fine - but the slightest little wrong move and the ball would lose contact with the patch just on one part as you rammed it...

Just wanna say thanks to all who post here - I came on a couple days ago looking for help/ inspiration. I have a 54 cal CVA I built up from bits - iron mounted - made the furniture meself and did a good job - its an excellent shooter and won me a few comps but the original CVA stock I used was...

I have shot CVA's in competition since 1989 - early locks were ordinary but nobody made a better muzzeloader barrel then or since! Sad that they went to inlines - sad that there are inlines !!

I have a 32 cal wesson caplock - its a sweet little shooter - 40 grains of FFF in a 32 is way plenty I reckon - get your most accurate load figured first then adjust sights to tune your group dead on at 100 yards - now you should hit ok at 50 with a six o clock hold of sights - this works with...

I second the steel wool idea - have done that with a number of rifles (includes a couple of neglected ones that got spotty in the bore) wrap fine steel wool round a bore brush to fit as tight as you can get then I use brasso on it to polish the bore - make sure you dont ding the crown with your...

two things caused me grief with a .54 ball shooter load was 120 gr FF with calico patch and moose milk 1) that wrecked the patches = I put down a backer patch over the powder and fixed that but was still getting flyers - one or two every string of ten 2) my patches were too small!! looked ok...