List of all the CVA sidelock muzzleloaders ever made?

[Cowboy]

Just out of curiosity, Does anyone know all the different CVA sidelock models that they offered through the years? Also to include barrel lengths and twist rates. Of course Im talking traditional type only! I tried to google the question and came up with nothing. Respectfully, cowboys1062.

 

[coloradoclyde]

It would help to pick a specific year or narrow timeframe...That would be quite a list if you started from pre-CVA to current Traditions...
Rifles, pistols, shotguns, flintlocks, etc.....
They probably made the most models at one time during the 1980's...

And then there were endless kits available....

 

[mooman76]

Many of the kits were just slight variations of other models and some drifted quite abit from the traditional so it also depends on your definition of traditional. Like CC said there was endless kits available, many you may or may not be able to name if you picked it up used as no name was on the gun.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just off the top of my head.....just under the name CVA and during the 1980's I can remember,..... excluding kits, pistols and calibers.
Hawken
kentucky
Mountain
St louis
squirrel
Trapper (shotgun)
410 double (shotgun)
Pennsylvania

I also remember a short full stock rifle but cant remember the name and I think they made a zouave too.

Somewhere I have a parts catalog from the 80's

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

I think "Frontier" rifle was another. Then there was the "Kentucky" pistol, a "colonial belt" pistol, Tower pistol, and the Derringer.

 

[mooman76]

There was a Frontier and also a Frontier Carbine I put together in the late 80s. It had a 24" barrel with a 1-48 twist and shot real good and with Lee REALs also. Wish I had kept it.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I think "Frontier" rifle was another. Then there was the "Kentucky" pistol, a "colonial belt" pistol, Tower pistol, and the Derringer.

Don't forget the mountain pistol

 

[azmntman]

Id sure like to find one of then .410 shot guns! I wasnt aware they made em. I have a Gobbler I thought was CVA. Mod choke and a real nice pattern

 

[mooman76]

I tried to buy a double years ago. I believe it was 12ga but it was on sale or clearance and they ran out quick. I have a CVA Mountain Stalker. 1/48 twist with a 26" barrel. Bought that on clearance in the late 90s.

 

[coloradoclyde]

CVA also made an express double rifle...

I killed everything from squirrel to grouse with my 410 double.....It's a fun gun but the stock is made for a kid....

 

[Cowboy]

What brought me to asking this question was that I purchased a CVA Hawken Hunter Kit back in the 90's and it had a rubber buttplate on the stock which I didn't care for. I bought a steel after market buttplate and tried to fit it on the stock. Bottom line was I didn't know what I was doing and totally ruined the stock with all the filing and sanding to try to get it to fit. I saved the barrel and the hardware and had it sitting around all these years. Saw a stock for it on Ebay and got it real cheap. I am in the process of refinishing the stock, rubber buttplate and all. It is exactly like the CVA Hawken except no patchbox, all black furniture, and rubber buttplate. Got me to thinking of how many different models CVA put out through the years. Before I purchased the Hawken Hunter stock I also saw a CVA Missouri Muzzleloader stock and it too had the rubber buttplate and looked exactly like the Hawken Hunter, black furniture and all. It just got me wondering! Respectfully, cowboys1062.

 

[coloradoclyde]

All the parts would probably drop right into a regular CVA hawken..... :hmm:
But keeping it as it was originally will make it more interesting as time progresses.
I've been offered 4 times the money for my .410 than I paid for it new......But I won't sell.... :grin:

 

[hawkeye2]

CVA also had a line of revolvers and revolver kits too. I bought my wife a CVA '63 Remington years ago, made by ASM.

 

[necchi]

Don't forget the elusive CVA Mackinaw Hawken.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Winner!.....first person to name one I never heard of.... :thumbsup: :hatsoff: :haha:

 

[Black Jack]

They made one called the "Kentucky Hunter". Also the "Zouave"

 

[fishmusic]

The mountain pistol, yeah! My sister gave me her husband's mountain pistol after he passed on. Lots of fun, that.

 

[azmntman]

I miss mine, would hit a quarter regularly at 25 yds (but at 50 was NOT accurate?) Loved that belt clip!

 

[coloradoclyde]

My early traditions Kentucky will shoot quarters at 50 yards......no joke and not bragging :thumbsup:

 

[azmntman]

I want it. I love pistol shooting and am told I'm very good. Mine was dead on but past 25 went south and I know it twernt me as I would grab a cf and get very good results at 50 :idunno: