great thanks just wanted to let everyone see for themselves the gun does exist

sure it exists, but your side of the story still remains a mystery.

the gun was loaded with 90gr pyrodex rs (black and orange can bought @ wal-mart 2yrs ago). I'm not reloader or anything else thats the only powder I have around,single load single bullet nothing else in barrel placed primer in breech plug fired and came out of smoke with what you see,what more is there to story

how many times did you shoot it that day before kaboom?

once two hours prior

tommydelvis.. I would like to take this opportunity personallyto thank you for sharing your incident and all the particulars with us. All to often things like this happen and the person(s) injured are bought off and a gag order placed and other people never learn the truth. It takes a lot of fortitude let alone unselfishness on your part. You could have sold out I'm sure. Instead you felt it more important to get the word out to fellow black powder shooters so any tragic similar event might not happen again.

There are always going to be those that doubt your story. Or there will be those that embrace it. I am sure the parent company BPIwill do their best to cloud over the fact or even suggest that something is not true. But hang in there.

I shoot CVA rifles, both inline and traditional. I've put hundreds of rounds through the rifles and they work perfect. Why your rifle decided to blow will be disputed between many for years to come. But again, I do thank you for your willingness to bring this to the attention of the muzzleloading population. Please keep us informed if there is any technical information that is brought to light in the up coming investigation.

Again let me express that any injury I consider serious, those you suffered did not have a life ending story to them. Thanks for sharing the fact of the incident. And I wish you a very speedy recovery.

once....

did you reload right after or did you reload after a couple hours when you went to shoot and she went kaboom?

cayugad...you are right I was offered a new optima elite in a 45-70 or a new accura,my choice just to send my gun back and not ask any questions about what happened or why it happened.Instead I give up the majority of my season to let my ears heal and to get my story out before they do decide to deal with my hearing and tell me to hush.but I believe you are right it don't happen all the time and all guns don't blow up but if the ones that do are not told about and just paid-off no-one will ever know and that is what any gun company wants is no-one to know they had even one of their guns to blow.I like you have shot CVA guns since I could hold one up all the way back to the #11 sidelocks and like you and most anybody else have not had problems until now.I have not talked to the direct person but have heard of one other optima that blew,thinking this one was from michigan but not for sure.whoevermy letting people know what happened offends all I can say is I'M SORRY for anyone else I hope thisis helpful the topic wasCVA DANGEROUS? tommy

Detective gander on the case.

Steve

I was huntimg reloaded after smoke cleared so i could see if i hit deer or not first about 30-45 seconds did not shoot again till i got home about two hours later,i don't take loadedsmokepoles in the housefor night