Currently CVA is best known as a maker of low-to mid-priced in-line muzzleloaders, but I believe the rifle you see here foreshadows a dynamic future. (BPI) has changed its CVA brand logo from a flint-and-hammer to simple broad lettering-befitting of the modern products it now sells to a much wider market. The Spanish-owned, Georgia-operated parent company, Blackpowder Products Inc. These days you won’t find kit guns, flintlocks or any wood at all in CVA’s catalog. in the future if this muzzleloading business didn’t pan out.Ĭonnecticut Valley Arms has come a long way from its roots as a distributor of frontier-era replica rifle kits. In nine of its 11 forms it is a centerfire, which means I wouldn’t have to worry about shelling out huge cash for a. So I’d chosen a new gun from CVA called the Apex, mainly because it’s about as close as a muzzleloader gets to a modern centerfire. 300 magnum with an optic made by Hubble if my Colorado tag hadn’t mandated otherwise. For this expensive hunt halfway across the country I would’ve carried a. Now I’m not crying I feel lucky just to go on such a hunt, and hunting isn’t just about killing and blah blah blah-but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to feel that buck’s horns in my hands. Seconds later, as the giant mule deer turned and bounced back into the cover of the corn, and my guide turned and started back to the truck, I also felt a tinge of regret. It was from this hazy vantage that I was enlightened by another truism: Neither trophy deer nor trophy deer guides exhibit much patience for hunters who don’t shoot. On a guided hunt, the only thing the hunter really has to worry about is making the shot. As the sun melted over a maize horizon and poured gold into my eyes, I struggled to focus on the shot and not the massive antlers.
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