CVA Kentucky Pistol Questions

[w_dexter]

Anyone have any experience with these pistols? how they function and shoot? I aquired one of these in a trade and it looks unfired in 45 cal,if they have a reputation of shooting accurate I may give it a try...thanks

 

[napolean]

The CVA Kentucky pistol was my first muzzle loading fire arm 33 years ago. I still have it.
I won some matches with it before I went to a flint pistol. The secret to CVA's is keeping the inside of the bolster clean.
JDD

 

[mykeal]

Yep. Got two, one I built from a kit back in the 70's (that's 1970's) and the other I inherited as a kit and finally got around to building last winter. The first one is a .45 that goes with my CVA Kentucky rifle, the other is a .50 that I have yet to shoot.

I've put a lot of lead downrange with the .45 over the years, most of the time using very poor pistol shooting techniques. Once I cleaned up my act I found it's actually a very good pistol, probably more accurate than I am. 35 gr fffg real black, .440 rb with 0.015 pillow ticking, but I haven't developed an optimum load, so don't use that as 'the' load.

 

[Don]

I also have two in .45 and both are good shooters. They both like 35 grains of pyro P and a .010 patch. Have read they are even more accurate with 40 grains but I don't want to stress the stock and besides it shoots well enough as is.

Don

 

[gifford]

I've got one and found it to be remarkedly accurate. If you pull the lock, you'll likely see a set screw that controls the trigger pull. It can be lowered to a reasonable level and that seems to really help out the accuracy. I use 20 grains of FFF, .440 RB and 0.015 ticking patch. You don't often see them being used on the firing line these days although a lot folks seem to have one. Give it a try and we think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

[slumlord44]

Built a kit years back to go with my Kentucky Rifle kit gun. Deadly accurate at typical handgun range and powerful enough to take out a man at handgun range with a round ball.