CVA Frontier With Nickel Silver Barrel?

[broome1000]

I have an unusual CVA Frontier rifle. It came with a red finish on the stock and a silver barrel. I am wondering if they made any of these with nickel silver barrels.

 

[hawkeye2]

I'm betting it's stainless. It looks like the tang is plated to match. Stock refinished?

 

[Capnball]

I have an unusual CVA Frontier rifle. It came with a red finish on the stock and a silver barrel. I am wondering if they made any of these with nickel silver barrels.

I like it!

 

[Mulebrain]

Looks like somebody nickel plated it, and some of it looks like flash chrome

 

[broome1000]

Thanks,
The stock was like this when I purchased it. I'm not sure if it's original or not.

I'm betting it's stainless. It looks like the tang is plated to match. Stock refinished?

 

[broome1000]

I plan to list this in the classified section in the coming days if you are interested.

I like it!

 

[Sparkitoff]

Did I miss something, I thought this was the Flintlock section...

 

[broome1000]

Rookie mistake. My apologies.

Did I miss something, I thought this was the Flintlock section...

 

[Sparkitoff]

LOL, its not a problem at all... I just really thought I was missing something. Nice rifle!

 

[Eddie2002]

I've a CVA Frontier with a brown barrel and the buck horn rear sight. The red color of the stock is probably the way it came from the factory. I have seen that color on a factory built CVA Hawken cap lock. Nice rifle

 

[firestick]

Appears to be stainless. Really doubt nickel silver would make a good barrel of any kind.

 

[JCKelly]

"Stainless" barrels are used on some modern breechloaders.

I would not ever use 416 stainless for a gun barrel. Some do because it machines nicely. That 416 barrel may not perform so nicely if something goes wrong. Seem to recall some famous European hunting rifle manufacturer discontinuing stainless rifles because thy can get somewhat brittle in cold weather. Makes sense to me as metallurgist.

 

[longcruise]

It's probably a nickel plating. A friend of mine did that to his TC Hawken many years ago. He liked the look. I thought it was ok for him but not something I would do.

I like the red stock finish.

 

[Justin.44]

I bought this from broome1000 last week, just stumbled onto my own gun on here!