an interesting "score"...

[rhwestfall]

I've been out of here for quite a bit of time, but not away from my BP guns. Just needing to take a moment to gloat a bit... :stir:

Through some twist of luck, I just took ownership of 3 guns...

CVA Mountain Big Bore .58 Flint (brass nose cap, brass hardware, no patch box)
CVA Mountain Big Bore .54 Flint (brass nose cap, brass hardware & patch box)
CVA Mountain Big Bore .54 percussion (brass nose cap, brass hardware & patch box)

Guns are from January of 1977, and are the USA made guns from Connecticut...

here is the best part - serial #'s are #2, #1, and #1 respectively!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shocked2:

These were the personal collection of the QC Manager for CVA (his name/signature is on laminated business/info cards attached to them). Woods are striped maple (the .54's are finished, and the .58 is in the raw... and just stunning)

Hopefully I can tease you folks with pics in the near future, but I can't at this time.

Now comes the hard decision: to use them, or hang them. They are unfired!

Quite different from my CVA .58 perc. Big Bore Mountain Rifle (pewter nose cap, black furnature, browned barrel, no patch box).

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

That sounds like a very interesting purchase. Pictures would be nice, and how you came by them. As for shooting them... I think I would hang onto them and leave them unfired. But that is just me. :idunno:

 

[rhwestfall]

A friend sent me a link, as they were listed on a forum that sells more "EBGs" than anything else. The seller is the son of the original owner. He inherited them, and wasn't interested in keeping them. The price he sold them for was silly low (likely I got all three for less than the value of one of them)..... I just couldn't pass up the opportunity.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Very interesting.
I would shoot them.
I don't believe the modern day factory made rifles have any traditional nostalgia or collectors value attached to them yet. Maybe a century from now.
They are only interesting.

 

[necchi]

Whatta you Nut's!!

You keep those as Un-Fired!!

 

[hanshi]

I hate you! :cursing:

 

[Blackbruin]

To each their own. But I value a gun by how it shoots, not looks or value. Only historical pieces maybe not.

 

[George T.]

I have never heard of CVA's being all that collectable. Even though these are special low numbers if I needed a big bore shooter I would go for it. Geo. T.

 

[mooman76]

Wall hangers are not guns to me, they are just decorations. That's one reason I don't like purty guns or knives or such cause I wouldn't want to use it and it would sit around collecting dust. I can see your dilemma though.

 

[necchi]

But These are Number 1!
Shooting Number 1? :nono:

 

[bubba.50]

as my hero troy "king of the swamp" landry would say--"CHOOT-EM!!!"

 

[necchi]

Whatta shame. Why do you think they where kept un-fired this long?
It's a shame that who ever got these after the man died didn't want them, or somehow passed them one to someone that would consider shooting them. Unbelievable, :youcrazy:
Serial Number 1 is a collectable,,
And Troy would be bankrupt if it wasn't for the show.
(fact)

 

[Capt. Jas.]

Put them on gunbroker and sell them to someone who would pay a premium for a modern factory gun as numbered and then take the bucks and have a quality gun made of your liking by someone who is respected by his peers for his work. :thumbsup:

 

[Coot]

Put them on gunbroker and sell them to someone who would pay a premium for a modern factory gun as numbered and then take the bucks and have a quality gun made of your liking by someone who is respected by his peers for his work. :thumbsup:

Sounds like a plan. :hatsoff:

 

[necchi]

Yeah, if you need a gun to shoot so bad sell these.
And buy one too shoot, you'll destroy any extra value they have by shooting an original factory collectable as those.
Beginning production serial numbered gun in any model has always been high grade and usually gifted as keep sakes and collectable.

Geez, I'd even contact CVA, and I don't mean the phone rep that's been there 6 months.

They are worth more than the average Mountain Rifle found in a pawn shop or ebay!!

BobW;
Tell us the story, How did you get them?

 

[rhwestfall]

see post #3....

 

[Trot]

If you are going to shoot them, I hope you have better luck with the CVA flintlocks than I have had. I have had two and experience with a couple others, the best of the lot couldn't even be called mediocre. Probably have more value to someone who was interested in them as a collectable than as a shooter.

 

[Dave K]

Yes, if you can't bring yourself to enjoy them, sell them for that profit and enjoy the money. I have bought many old guns (like a Rem.541S) that was unfired and in the box. Sale slip in the box said $181 when sold new. I am taking care of it, but enjoying it. Good score on the CVA's!

 

[M. De Land]

Yeah, I agree, I've not seen any CVA's that I have thought to impressive although I would like to be surprised. Had my mind changed by being wrong a great many times in these 63 years I've been around. :grin: MD

 

[bubba.50]

as nice as i'm sure they are, nobody's gonna be openin' up a museum for old cva's, t/c's, lymans & such. they were well built for the money utilitarian guns made to shoot so i'll say it again, "choot'em".