Theolder CVAactions look almost like that action. Have floated the barrels on a couple dozen CVA guns for other folks and myself.Itake a bent half round wood rasp and rasp away the sides of the barrel channel.Do not rasp in the area 1.5 inches forward of the barrel lug. Rasp until the barrel floats when put in the stock. Check it with a business card.Then rough up the stock where the action sits with coarse sand paper. Although it does not look possible, it is fairly easy to glass the very rear of the action: Rough up about .5 inch of the stock to the rear of thechannel with sand paper.Drill a couple of shallow one-quarter holes in the stock at an angleand just above the rear trigger screw. The trigger screw does not matter. Fill the Allen wrench hole in the screw with grease.

Preparation for bedding: Put release agent onall metal parts that the bedding compound will touch: Putrelease agent on the sides of the action. Now do it one more time.

Bedding:

Put bedding compound in the holes you drilled in the rear of the action channel. Put bedding compound in the channelto the front and rear of the barrel lug.Put bedding compound in the lug recess. It is a well glassed lug that makes it possible to successfully bed these muzzleloaders that have only one action screw. Put the gun together and tighten the screw. Excess bedding compound will be forced out. Do not over do it with the bedding compound. You get another chance if the glass job is not perfect.

Takes me abouttwo hours to to float the barrel and glass the action on this type of gun. BTW: Everyone I everfired shot better than before bedding and floating.

I use AcraGlass gel for all my bedding. This is my old CVA Staghorn. Italso has an aluminum pillar. This gun shoots as well as guns costing ten times as much.