Restocking and Older CVA Hawken
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The patchbox is brass and the butt plate and trigger guard are browned steel. The barrel wedge plates look as though they were silver plated, but the plating has worn away--possibly due to handling. Screws are steel. I gave Deer Creek Products a call re: a new stock. The young lady that I talked to was pleasant and helpful and knew what she was talking about. They won't be carving any stocks for Mountain Rifles until early next year, but she took my name and number. What a nice person! I'll refinish the old stock for some good practice.
Keep an eye on e-bay. Guys are always buying up and parting out CVAs, T/Cs etc. Ya might find one there.
Something to be aware of when purchasing an older Mountain Rifle stock.
As much as the CVA Mountain Rifle has a reputation as CVA's best traditional ML and it's known accuracy, the stocks did/do have a design flaw that affect almost all of the older stocks.
The milled mortises for all the component's in the lock/trigger/breech area took out a lot of wood, after years of stock drying and years worth of taking the parts in/out for cleaning and over tightening the screws,, the wood under the trigger get's compressed so much that the trigger rides too high in it's mortise. That condition put's the trigger cams too high and they press against the locks sear arm,, all of a sudden there's a problem bring the gun to full cock unless the trigger's are "set".
It's an easy fix with either a shim or bedding under the front of the trigger.
It's just something you should know about with that rifle.
As much as the CVA Mountain Rifle has a reputation as CVA's best traditional ML and it's known accuracy, the stocks did/do have a design flaw that affect almost all of the older stocks.
The milled mortises for all the component's in the lock/trigger/breech area took out a lot of wood, after years of stock drying and years worth of taking the parts in/out for cleaning and over tightening the screws,, the wood under the trigger get's compressed so much that the trigger rides too high in it's mortise. That condition put's the trigger cams too high and they press against the locks sear arm,, all of a sudden there's a problem bring the gun to full cock unless the trigger's are "set".
It's an easy fix with either a shim or bedding under the front of the trigger.
It's just something you should know about with that rifle.
