PlayTheWindMike
12-17-2012, 12:57 PM
I have often thought of getting a new muzzle loader and I have gone through guns over my 49 years of life and have never been really happy with any gun I ever purchased with the exclusion of my wingmaster 20. I have always resorted to my wingmaster after other guns failed me for whatever reason.
Well my brother in law called about a week or so ago and was headed to Gander Mountain so I went along with him. He was going to purchase the CVA Optima and after getting there a looking it over we decided that the CVA Accura Mountain Rifle was a better choice. He bought one and I decided I was due for an early Christmas present as well.
When I sighted the gun in, I felt very confident with my shot at this point. 100 yards my shot was off dead center about an inch. At 150 yards I was off dead center at 2 inches. I took a last and final shot at 200 yards and was off dead center at 2 inches. I was good to go. Now to the hunting
I went out Saturday morning knowing my freezer had no deer meat (well 1 pack of deer burger remained). I was in my climber and about 8:40am I started to doze off for a second and low and behold I looked straight down and a doe come around my tree at 5 yards. I stayed motionless and she mozied along and I drew my CVA and she heard me and run off. She got out in the middle of the field, I grunted with my mouth and she stopped and turned giving me a broadside shot. 128 yards I placed the cross hair on her heart and took the shot. She did the run of death 40 yards and down. As I looked over where she ran I realized there was several deer over in this end of the field. 14 does total. The top half of her heart was blown apart and partial lung as well.
Saturday evening I went back out to this samed field, other end, with CVA and was sitting between two hayfields and seeing this area the deer run straight across these fields and very seldom walk along the edges. Just before sundown a big doe hopped the fence between the two fields and ran down around 90 plus yards then turned to go toward the valley giving me a moving broadside shot. I grunted and at this point she was 110 yards. She stopped, crosshair on chest and bam down she goes. After shooting not even 90 seconds went by, I was reloaded and getting the cap to insert and I turned around and there were several deer in the back field running straight at me but the only deer I had my eye on was the monster buck. He was 40 yards and closing straight toward me. I looked down and threw the cap in and looked back up, I was on my knees in the corner of the gate. I looked at him again and started to draw and he flipped a 180 and ran back the other way. Must of seen me move. A very big buck here. I just sat there with sorrow lol.
Then come Sunday. I went to a new place with some friends and one took me to his uncles farm in southern Ohio. 95 acres where a 167 inch was taken about one month ago. I was hoping to see a monster but did not. I did have a doe come rushing in a saddle I was sitting in a climber right in the middle. I grunted and stopped her. Now at 123 I crosshaired her and it knocked her off her feet and she did a 180 in the air and landed in a pile.
Now with this all being said. First and third deer are in my freezer. The second one I donated, which I do every year to a needy childrens center who happily takes a deer a year from me. The third one is in my freezer along with the first. I also want to mention that I was "Extremely" impressed with the new meat grinder I just bought at Dicks sporting goods. Thing was $119.00 and I have used many grinders and friends grinders over the years, I just have never owned one myself until this one. PM me if you want the details on it. This for the price is great, we ran through my deer and 3 more and ground for a solid 20 minutes. 5 deer run through this without one bog down or anything.
At the end of the day I am truly impressed with this CVA mountain rifle. It is amazing to me at long distances it hits what you want it to hit.
Well my brother in law called about a week or so ago and was headed to Gander Mountain so I went along with him. He was going to purchase the CVA Optima and after getting there a looking it over we decided that the CVA Accura Mountain Rifle was a better choice. He bought one and I decided I was due for an early Christmas present as well.
When I sighted the gun in, I felt very confident with my shot at this point. 100 yards my shot was off dead center about an inch. At 150 yards I was off dead center at 2 inches. I took a last and final shot at 200 yards and was off dead center at 2 inches. I was good to go. Now to the hunting
I went out Saturday morning knowing my freezer had no deer meat (well 1 pack of deer burger remained). I was in my climber and about 8:40am I started to doze off for a second and low and behold I looked straight down and a doe come around my tree at 5 yards. I stayed motionless and she mozied along and I drew my CVA and she heard me and run off. She got out in the middle of the field, I grunted with my mouth and she stopped and turned giving me a broadside shot. 128 yards I placed the cross hair on her heart and took the shot. She did the run of death 40 yards and down. As I looked over where she ran I realized there was several deer over in this end of the field. 14 does total. The top half of her heart was blown apart and partial lung as well.
Saturday evening I went back out to this samed field, other end, with CVA and was sitting between two hayfields and seeing this area the deer run straight across these fields and very seldom walk along the edges. Just before sundown a big doe hopped the fence between the two fields and ran down around 90 plus yards then turned to go toward the valley giving me a moving broadside shot. I grunted and at this point she was 110 yards. She stopped, crosshair on chest and bam down she goes. After shooting not even 90 seconds went by, I was reloaded and getting the cap to insert and I turned around and there were several deer in the back field running straight at me but the only deer I had my eye on was the monster buck. He was 40 yards and closing straight toward me. I looked down and threw the cap in and looked back up, I was on my knees in the corner of the gate. I looked at him again and started to draw and he flipped a 180 and ran back the other way. Must of seen me move. A very big buck here. I just sat there with sorrow lol.
Then come Sunday. I went to a new place with some friends and one took me to his uncles farm in southern Ohio. 95 acres where a 167 inch was taken about one month ago. I was hoping to see a monster but did not. I did have a doe come rushing in a saddle I was sitting in a climber right in the middle. I grunted and stopped her. Now at 123 I crosshaired her and it knocked her off her feet and she did a 180 in the air and landed in a pile.
Now with this all being said. First and third deer are in my freezer. The second one I donated, which I do every year to a needy childrens center who happily takes a deer a year from me. The third one is in my freezer along with the first. I also want to mention that I was "Extremely" impressed with the new meat grinder I just bought at Dicks sporting goods. Thing was $119.00 and I have used many grinders and friends grinders over the years, I just have never owned one myself until this one. PM me if you want the details on it. This for the price is great, we ran through my deer and 3 more and ground for a solid 20 minutes. 5 deer run through this without one bog down or anything.
At the end of the day I am truly impressed with this CVA mountain rifle. It is amazing to me at long distances it hits what you want it to hit.