Identify This Flintlock Please

[Brienjr]

http://www.tourworld.com/flintlock.jpg

Please help me identify my rifle.
I have acquired a used, black powder flintlock, 50 Cal, muzzle loading rifle Serial 014630.
The barrel is octagonal and 28" long and the overall length of the rifle is about 44.5 "
Stamped on the barrel is 'Connecticut Valley Arms Spain'.

Can someone tell me when it was manufactured and, or at least, what the model name of the rifle is? I believe it is a replica of a well known, early American rifle.

 

This appears to be a later model CVA "mountain rifle". I don't know the exact years of manufacture, but it would be a modern rifle, made in the last 20 or 30 years. It does not copy any old type rifle, although in the percussion version would pass for some of the plains rifles used in the 1850s. The folks that insist on putting flintlocks on this style rifle are not imitating history.

 

[d.thomson]

It looks like a " Hawken type Riffle" Have fun shooting it.
It might not be Period correct " P.C." But I have never been "PC" Politicaly correct :haha: . Welcome to the forum and enjoy both the forum and your new to you riffle. Fisher King :thumbsup:

 

[Rebel]

At first i thought Hawken, but no patch box, Then i thought Frontier rifle, but the rear sight is wrong for the Hawken and Frontier. Then i thought Mt. rifle, but only one barrel wedge, it does have the Mt rifle type rear sight. Might be a Frontier with a different rear sight?

 

[RC]

looks to me like someone switched barrels or "parted" the gun together...can't place the stock,unless it's a frontier..??? an a hawken barrel???? any sign they may have moved the barrel lug?...

 

[boar]

Rebel, I see two wedge pins. Don't see pewder nose cap, looks like brass? Dilly

 

[Rebel]

I only see one wedge and a shadow just in front of the lock mortise that at first i thought was one. And the Mountain rifles had 32' barrels.

 

[boar]

Wrong there is only one pin, Duth Dilly

 

[Brienjr]

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[Bob Riegl]

:hmm: Looks like a vintage CVA of the late 70"s???? :v

 

[Rebel]

It still looks more like a Frontier rifle that someone has changed the rear sight on to me.

 

[DougMPhoto]

It's a CVA Mountain Rifle. I have the 54 cal. Big Bore Mountain Rifle in Flintlock and have the exact same rear sight, lock, trigger guard, lock bolts and triggers. Mine is pewter and steel with 2 wedge pins , Your's is brass with one pin. I remember looking at that one but went with the Big Bore instead. Definitely a CVA ... probably late 70's.

Mine is a great shooter now that I changed the lock. Frizzen was too soft and had misfires.

"Keep yer powder dry"

 

[Rebel]

Sorry to disagree with you but i have never seen a Mt rifle with a brass furniture and one wedge. I still say Frontier rifle with different rear sight.

 

[DougMPhoto]

OK... could be...if Frontier was made by CVA. I just know that it has the same hardware as my Big Bore Mountain Rifle. (Heck that was 30 years ago, I have trouble remembering MY name). But same sight and parts except in brass as my CVA.

 

[Rebel]

Yes CVA made the Frontier as well as the Hawken and the Mt rifle. The best of the bunch were the Mt rifles.

 

[faw3]

Well I thought I knew them all but this one has me :shake: Could it be a made for home country use and got over here some how? FRED :hatsoff:

 

[MikeChapin]

My guess is that it is a Frontier Rilfe. The early ones were brass mounted in almost the same hardware shapes as the Mountain Rifle. The first models I saw about a year or so after the Mountain Rifle came out did have the Mountain Rifle sights. The next batch I saw have the T/C clone adjustables.

As I remember they were 1:48 twist barrels.

 

[laffingman67]

That's a "frontier" rifle if I ever saw one. Good guns, should make a good shooter for you. :thumbsup:

 

[CZMark]

It still looks more like a Frontier rifle that someone has changed the rear sight on to me.

I agree. My wife's Big Bore Mountain Rifle has a pewter nosecap, steel thimbles, two barrel wedges. and an iron triggerguard that is very different than the one on this rifle.

 

[mrbortlein]

It looks like my 50 cal Plainsman rifle stock. Minus the nose cap. It looks as if it has no buttplate, just like mine and the length looks the same as mine. But it does look like some extra brass has been put on it.
mrbortlein