Used CVA halfstock, walnut restock

[mongrel]

This is a rifle I built a few years back that I had intended to keep for deer hunting. I have stopped hunting until such time as I might once more be broke and hungry, and I have a flint fullstock project that I will one of these days finish and keep for my personal gun, so this one can go.

The barrel is a 1" diameter CVA .50 caliber with a good but not perfect bore. The original hooked breech setup had been badly-buggered by someone whose wrenches were much larger than the combined strength of his brain and common sense, so the barrel has been cut back to 27 1/2" and re-breeched with a fixed-tang plug. The tang of the plug has had repair done to it, and though it's not picture-perfect it's good and solid. Barrel flats have been de-farbed of all CVA markings, proofs, and other clutter. The lock is off a CVA Bobcat, no internal bridle or fly or adjustment screw for sear engagement on the tumbler. It's been re-worked to resemble some of the locks found on original Leman rifles, and the large Hawken-style hammer will accomodate a 6x1mm-threaded musket nipple if the new owner feels the need for more fire. Single trigger breaks at a clean 5 pounds. Fire-blued steel hardware, fixed sights, barrel cold-blued to a smooth, even blue-brown, everything mounted into a plain walnut halfstock with a length of pull of 13 1/2". The stock has a couple minor dings from light use. This is in no way offered as a gun for highlighting a collection or winning matches, but as a solid, handy-sized hunting rifle it's a good one. I am fully-aware that CVA rifles can be had, used, at lower prices, but my stock work is way superior to factory products and you get a much better-handling gun for the money I charge.

As soon as I can get a camera, the gun, and sufficient daylight in the same place, to get some new pics for GunBroker, my Buy It Now price over there will be $295 plus $30 shipping. Members of this forum can avoid the auction process and save $25 by buying it for a flat $300, shipping to your door included.

My personal rules as a seller are different from this site's. Interested parties have to have at least 10 posts in the discussion areas of the forum, and replies of "Yep" or "Me, too" or collections of smilies won't cut it. Sorry, not interested in trades or best offers.

[mongrel]

Re-posting this one. It will be awhile before I can do any shooting, and I have components to build upwards of half a dozen to ten rifles more-or-less similar to this one if the time comes I have a need for another percussion halfstock.

[mongrel]

Sold. Thanks for looking.

[William]

I hope it was someone here on TMotC that got ahold of this rifle. One, because he/she has joined an association of limited membership and two, so that we get to read about the travels and adventures the new owner takes it on, not to mention how it shoots.