SAFETY ALERT: Anyone else having CVA Bolt Gun PROBLEMS!

[Adam Helmer]

powell&hyde,

Thanks for the input. I own two CVA Inlines BECAUSE the local Agway had a "Christmas Madnesss" sale a week before Christmas two years ago. I looked at the inlines and a $219.00 .45 rifle was priced $119.00 and the .50 was $269.00 for $125.00. In retrospect: I MUST say the prices WERE NOT CHEAP ENOUGH!

The .50 "DIED" First. I called CVA and chatted about it FIRING on bolt closure. The nice customer service guy asked me for the gun's serial number, which I provided. He said, "Check again, that serial number range is for prototype rifles never put out for retail sale." I said, "I am an Armorer and, with glasses, can read a serial number. " He said to send in the rifle, which I did. Two weeks later they sent me a .50 caliber Inline upgrade that is a "vault queen."

The .45 caliber has NOT been shot enough to use up a 100 count 209 primer tray BEFORE she FIRED on bolt closure! The rifle has been Down and Back to CVA and, as I posted in a prior post, the OVERSIZE bore was "Specked" at .0451 Yadda, yadda. Ok, CVA says it is .451, SO how do I put a .454 Speer swaged Ball and a .015" patch down the bore, EASILY? My math says that is .469", but since I only resize 37 bullets for handguns and rifles, I do not know squat. Whatever.

I sent a letter to the CEO of CVA that went out yesterday. I bought two CVA Arms at the Christmas Madness sale to help out the local Agway Store. I will NOT buy another CVA Arm. The two I own will do this Summer when the grand kids take the canoe out on the pond. When they need an ANCHOR, they will have the .45 Fore and the .50 CVA Aft!

If anyone has a bolt action CVA Inline, I again warn you to WATCH the muzzle as both of mine FIRED on bolt closure! We always should Watch the Muzzle, but ESPECIALLY with a CVA bolt inline. Fore warned is fore armed. BE SAFE, even when the guns ARE NOT! Nuff said.

Adam