In 1977 my BIL and I both bought Mountain rifle kits. He was a talented artist type guy that could paint and carve wood, nearly 10 years my senior. I was a 20 year old diesel mechanic that had never done more than drive a nail in wood. We built them in his basement, and it was all he could do to keep me slowed down enough to do a decent job on it. He sold his gun a couple years later and I still have mine. That gun has killed more Whitetails than all my modern guns put together, and several Coyotes. I just seemed to love hunting with it when he and I hunted together, to rub it in on him because he sold his. Over the years he has collected several
custom guns built by the likes of Herschel and Frank House, Ron Ehlert, Allen Sandy, and Mike Miller. But he don't have a CVA Mountain rifle. Good find, great price!