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I see where Cabela's has the CVA Wolf reduced to $119.99!
Never owned one myself, but I've heard they are a good gun for the money. If I didn't already have too many inlines I'd be ordering one at that price!
I DO have a Traditions Pursuit Pro which is a similar design and it is very reliable and accurate. The 209 ignition in the closed action (break-open type action) is not waterproof, but it's very water-resistant.
I hunted with it on our opening day of gun season in heavy rain and simply used a nylon cover over the action (an old folding camo chair bag made a good cheap cover ;)) and a baloon over the muzzle. When I finally saw a deer I simply slipped the cover off the action & scope, cocked the rifle, and BOOM! No problems at all!

RE: Click! (I need a new gun!!!)
 

Heavy rain I use this and put Saran wrap over the breech area. They fold up nice in your knap sack and only cost about $20. Chap Gleason

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"have a CVA Firebolt or something (its an inline from 2003)."

Maybe the primer was wet: But the CVA bolt actions are somewhat prone to misfires under normal conditions. The mainspring gets weak from being compressed.My Magnum Hunter CVA failed me a couple of times wheneverything was as dry as a bone. Every time i take the bolt apart to clean it, i stretch the spring a little. Do not leave the bolt cocked when storing the gun.

It is a very good idea toput on a new primerat about mid-day even in good weather. Primers are very cheap. You will remember thatyour gun failed to fire at that once in a lifetime buck forever.

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i owned a cva firebolt for 4 years and never had anykind of problem and my brother took it over and loves it.too many people get hung up on that cva guns are crap and it always the guns fault!

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I hear of this all the time, put fresh primers on if you have any moisture on the gun!!! Dont take the whole pack with you, take a few and keep them sealed up!

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Before youwrap your CVA Firewhatever around a tree...

What primer and powder where you shooting????

Good advise thus far, I'll add...

Keep the CVA. You own it, you will get next to nothing if you try to sell it and it's good to have an extra ML around as either a backup or as aloaner for a friend.

Any of the break or drop action or the knight bolt DISCML's shooting209 shotgun primerwill be more reliable than an exposed 11 cap.

In my view, you get what you pay for and I would not look much farther than T/C or Knight. There are others. If buying new, forget money to begin with, then go with the ML that feels the best to youwhen you shoulder it along with it's and the company that makes it reputation.

Back to your ill-behaved CVA...

Perhaps a couple of things happened other than what has already been mentioned. By the way, any of these things can cause any ML to mis-fire.
1) Your powder charge could have been slightly moisture or lubecompromised the time when you initally loaded up if you did not remove everything from the bore prior to loading. I've both done and seen this happen. Or the breech plug or nipple was clogged slightly. A nipple-pick is a very handy gizmo. I use one every time after loading the main charge before placing a primer - even with my modern inlines.
2) Could have had a bad cap?
3) Powder might not be as fresh and could have drawn moisture over time, which makes ignition more difficult.
4) Too much or incorrect lube on the bolt/plunger/firing pin assembly. As the temperature get's colder, the viscosity of the lube you are using increases. I have seen ML's (and other weapons) either not fire or cycle correctly as a result of over-lubrication and lubes that are not suited for colder temperatures.
5) Should have changed the cap when you dumped in the snow.
6)Can get a very inexpensive breech cover that works like champ and is much less than the cost of a new ML.
7) Combination of thingsthat resultin a mis-fire.

If dead set on a new ML, get what you really want first and you will never regret it. If can't afford due to optics, then go a year or so with open sights until you can get the best opitcs you can afford.

You will rarelyhear ofa cheaper rifle setup fail because of decent optics, but you often hear of a cheap optics failure regardless of the quality of the rifle.

M2C,

Tahquamenon

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Back to your ill-behaved CVA...

These new Ill-behaved cva's now come with a barrel thats guaranteed to out shoot any production made TC barrel. ;) The barrels on the new cva's are also available for the tc encore shooter than needs to shoot conicals accurately.

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Chap,
I also have one of the umbrellas you posted the picture of. ;)

As for CVA, from my experiences they are usually very accurate gunswith a variety of projectiles and a very reasonable price on them. I'm hearing great reviews about the new barrels, too!

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Yep. Ive only seen 2-3 posts on the new cva electra with the bergara barrel and they were shooting 1" groups @100yards right out of the box with powerbelts.

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FG, I and everyone here understand thatyou love CVA's. Fine with me.

I was not picking on CVA in this thread. The author of the thread was frustrated with his ML which happend to be a CVA. However the issues associated with the misfire I feel had little ifnothing to do with the MFG of the ML.

As for guarantee's... anyone can take a dump in a box and mark it with a guarantee.The best warranty everis the one you never need to use.

As far as claims of outshooting any T/C, please direct us all to the section of the CVA warranty or websitewhere this is stated. Fairly wild claim. How and under what conditions is this claim substantiated and carried out?

FYI, thetop team scoringML maker for several years in a row is actually Knight.

As a general comment regarding CVA, I think their quality is vastly improved over the years and rightfully so although I have not and will likely not buy one.Muchof the worst catastrophic failures in the modern ML industry were as a result of poor quality by CVA.

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