CVA mountain rifle barrels

[Chris Hayes]

I have heard that the 1" barrels on the cva mountion rifles are Douglas barrels. I have 2, one in percussion and one in flint. Can anyone tell me how to verify this otherwise i think i'm gonna put a GM .58 barrel on them both. Thanks! :hmm:

 

[rich pierce]

Can't confirm but the early CVA mountain rifles were really good shooters. Don't need to be Douglas to be good. If the CVA barrels are deep groove with 7 narrow lands and load smoothly then they are generally going to be accurate.

 

[Chris Hayes]

They are 7 lands, and yes both load very easy. Just like the bigger ball for elk.

 

[ohio ramrod]

This has been covered before without a definate answer.Records are not available. The prototype definately had a douglas barrel. But some people think the production ones had sharon barrels. Since the steel in some seems harder than the steel used by douglas. Either way if the barrel says "made in USA" it is a top quality rifle.I restored one for a friend and it is a top quality rifle. Even though the lock was made in Spain it had the best quaslity lock I have ever worked on on a CVA.It is my personal opinion that the CVA mountain rifle with the Made in USA barrels is far and away the best rifle CVA ever made! :idunno:

 

[Kentuckywindage]

call deer creek, they sell new .58cal Douglas barrels for the mt rifle.

 

[Birddog6]

I wonder how they got them. Douglas quit making ML barrels in the early 80's.

I own a Big Bore Mtn. rifle in .58 cal. (built it from a kit in the 70's) Doesn't say Douglas on it & have never seen a CVA that said Douglas & have looked on a many of them that were said to be Douglas. Regardless of that, the B.B. Mtn Rifles are extremely accurate.

Keith Lisle

 

[necchi]

This has been done a bunch. http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/239569/

Deer Creek bought the Douglas machine and they are still using it.
That dosen't mean it's the same barrel,, too many things have changed in all those years.
The tooling,
The Operators, just too mention a few.

Deer Creek has been and still are making a quality barrel for the CVA Mountain Rifle.

Can we call it a Douglas barrel? My best first hand info is that the first few hundered barrels for the MR came off the Douglas machine while the machine was in Douglas hands, beyond that the barrels are Spanish,,with RPL and the Limited Edition coming from Deer Creek.

 

[TinStar]

My first BP gun was a .50 CVA Mtn rifle (perc) in kit form. I kick my own butt for getting rid of it. It was a real shooter and I killed quite a few deer with it. Great gun.

TinStar
Soli Deo Gloria!

 

[Chris Hayes]

Well, now i'm confused. Both mine are .50, but both have 1" barrels. Maybe its not a mountain rifle? :idunno:

 

[Birddog6]

It could be a Plains or Mountain Rifle. It is NOT a Big Bore Mountain rifle if it is a .50 cal., as they only came in .54 & .58 cal.

A photo of it would help. Also if you call Deer Creek & give them the serial# on the barrel, they may can tell you exactly what it is.

Keith Lisle

 

[Chris Hayes]

Thanks Keith. Will do