After having accuracy issues with my CVA Optima Pro, I was instructed by CVA to clean the barrel using a process that they recommended. I did exactly as they said and that didn't help so they told me to return my gun. Well, a couple of weeks passed and I decided to give them a call and was told that it would be about three weeks from the time that they received it before they could get to it. UPS shows up the next day with my gun[:-]. The gun had obviously not been fired and there was a note inside that said "Clean barrel with CVA Product #????..." I called them up and asked them what in the world was going on, that gun was as clean as one can get when I sent it to them. The service manager apologized and said that because they didn't have a 29", nickle, fluted barrel in stock that they would be sending me a brand new gun. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I would have been perfectly happy with just a barrel replacement but he insisted on sending a new gun. They had obviously mistaken my gun for someone elses because as I said, that thing was clean when it left my house. I just talked to sabotloader and he gave me some break-in instructions so maybe this one will be a shooter. We shall see.

God Bless,

Bigtimer

Congrats to CVA...

Make sure you clean the heck out of that bore when you get it... some of them newguns have some really nasty stuff in the bore...

While I am mot a CVA fan I am certainly not a basher either... I think you have made a positive contact @ CVA service with the gentleman you talked to, and you will be able to use him as a resource with this new gun if it were to have any problems...

I do have another suggestion I will drop on you later... in fact I am going to call you right now...

mike

Thats very good to hear.

What kind of loads were you using in your last one?

I was shooting 110 grains of loose T-7, an MMP 24 sabot and a nosler .451 HP. I am going to try the new Blackhorn 209 powder and see if I can cut down on the crud and get better accuracy. I don't do a lot of recreational shooting so "I" can justify the expense. Just a deer hunter here. My body can't take the punishment of a lot of range time.

God Bless,

Give the 250g SST/ XTP a try. The new owner of my X-150 says the 250g XTP is doing excellent and putting them at a 3 shot 1" group @ 100 yards. Think he said he was using a Knight high pressure sabot "black".

I have shot my Dad's Optimaand my son's Optima Pro (I have a Savage and Omega) and they shoot better than any guns I have- under 1"moa . I will post some targets tonight of yesterdays shooting. My dad's shot BH209 100gr .8" group with Barne's TMZ. They seem to also like 250 SST low drag sabots

My new optima pro arrived today but I don't think that there's any Blachorn 209 in the state. It looks like I'm going to have to order a couple of containers and pay the haz-mat fee[]. But I want to give this new gun a fresh start and try the BH209 with the noslers. Any opinions? Oh, a huge thanks to sabotloader for all of his help.

Bigtimer

Of course and you already know this I do not think you can find a more dependable bullet than the Nosler you are using for whitetail class animals from 10 yards to 200 yards... It does not have the best BC in the world but you have already proven how well it will take game longer ranges and you know I have. + you are going to bump up the velocity a bit with BH-209...