Cross your fingers Smokepolers

[New Hampshire]

Well Im hoping I can make this deal work.  My buddy has a neighbor looking to unload two front stuffers.  I told him I was interested, and to talk to the guy.  Seems they are two CVA Kentucky style rifles, which is what I was looking for as a kit rifle!  One is an older style with the patchbox the other set-up for a shorter person and no patchbox.  They also have double set triggers  :shock: !  One ( the one I want with the patchbox, I think) is missing a wedge (?) pin.  Are all Wedge pins universal or will I have to buy a specific one?  One also has a little exterior rust on the barrel, but thats no problem.  He is even including his accouterments!  Seems the guy wants to go "modern" and 209  :eek: .  Well his urge is my gain.  Asking price......$100 for everything and out the door!!!!!!  I owe my buddy for a compound bow Im picking up from him, so Im fronting the $100 and he is getting the shorter rifle in exchange for debt payment.  Im hurrying now to scrape up the dough, maybe this week  :grin: !  So wish me luck!
Brian M.
P.S. Guess the kit will have to wait a while longer, but this is too good to pass up!

[Ramrod]

Hey New Hampshire, sounds great, hope your deal works. I doubt the wedge will be hard to find, Dixie can probably fix you up. Or you could make one easy enough. You are going to have a blast with this gun( pun intended)! Be carefull, you could get hooked.  
Ramrod

[Ka6otm]

New Hampshire,

No problem.

I ran into a similar deal a few years back on a CVA Hawken kit.  The guy had never built it and had managed to lose the wedge and the rear sight.

Just go to http://www.cva.com/products/parts.htm and call or email them from there and they will quote you for the parts.

As I recall the wedge and rear sight set me back about $15.00.

Ka6otm

[New Hampshire]

Thanks guys thats a help.  I got a little more info.  It seems that, by my friends description, the two are actually closer to a Hawkens style and not a Kentucky like I had thought.  And the "Rust" he spoke of, to me, sounds like he is describing a browned rather than blued barrel.  Maybe the bluing is just gone?  I dont know.  I will probably pay the guy this week and get it over with.  But my buddy says the two guns are in a shootable state.  Even if this thing lasts me one year and winds up as a wall hanger, at least it gets me started  :grin: .  From there the sky is the limit! (I still plan on doing that Kentucky rifle kit someday!)
Thanks again,
Brian M.

[Ramrod]

I wondered about the patchbox and wedge thing after my last post, but then my CVA is over 25 years old, don't know what they look like now. If the bore is good and the lock works OK you are all set, looks don't make a gun shoot, and refinishing is pretty cheap.

[simonkenton]

Congratulations, you got a good deal. This will introduce you to the sport.

I have had a lot of enjoyment building two kits. I got them out of the Dixie catalog. One was their Tenn. Mtn rifle kit, which I built pretty much as directed, though I did add a patch box. What a beautiful rifle. It is just a variation of the Ky rifle. I have killed 5 deer with this rifle.
The other, I just bought parts here and there from the Dixie catalog to build a Penn style rifle. It is a Ky rifle with a "Roman Nose" stock. On that one I had to inlet the lock. That takes some care, but it turned out real nice. The bad news was, that curved stock popped me in the cheek when I fired it, I didn't like that so I gave it to my parents for a wall hanger.

Enjoy those rifles and set some time aside in a year or two and build a kit. You won't regret it.
Get the Dixie catalog, it is amazing all the different stocks, barrels, locks, patchboxes etc available, if you want to go to a little more trouble for a custom kit.

[New Hampshire]

Im picking up the rifle tonight.  I have my mothers digital camera so I will try and post some pics of it.  Bot Im sure excited!
Brian M.