CVA BH209 Plug
 

Must be the day for breech plugs LOL.

I installed the new CVA BH209 plug in the Wolf today as i haven't tested them yet. Installation was easy as screwing it in and then seating it with the provided tool.

Adjusted my head space out .012" with the CCI 209 Magnum primers and as usual, zero blow by.

Breech threads were dry and clean with no sign of blow by. Primer pocket was obviously clean as well.

One huge difference i noticed after i shot 7 rounds was that i only found one granule of BH209 in the bore that looked unburnt.

Time for cleaning, i ran one snug fitting cloth both down the bore and typically with the old flat style plug, I would find some thicker build up which required a little more scrubbing in that area.

Today that build up was zero.

Accuracy of the Wolf was outstanding as usual, but my POI did change to about 1.5" low and few inches to the right. Not a drastic change, but enough to throw you off if you were to just install the plug and go hunting.

Cleaning the hollowed out area was easy with some hot water and my nylon breech plug brush, it actually came out extremely easy with no hard scrubbing needed.

So in the end, it fired just like with the original plug but cleaner in the bore towards the face of the plug.

CVA BH209 plug
I pick up one for the new Optima no problems no mis-fires

Wish they made one for my kodiak lol.

Okay, i ran 2 dry patches and then one wet patch and it was finished! Awesome. Only 7 shots but still a huge improvement with cleaning.

Well that is nice when the rifle is that easy to clean... and accurate too. What more could you want.

The CVA BH209 QRBP is almost an exact dimensional copy of the Omega breech plug. As such it certainly will work excellently igniting BH. It is hard for me to imagine any one ever having a delay or fail to fire whilst using this plug. This plug without doubt will work. However.

However, i do have an issue with the design of this plug. The flame channel is much too short. They made the flame channel too short. It wasn't necessary. My testing in sub-zero weather has shown to me without any doubt, that the flame channel doesn't need to be so short.

Neither one of these plug will ever fail to ignite BH.






Their flame channel is longer than the BH209 CVA plug. In my mind, the perfect QRBP would locate the flash hole half as far from the end of the plug as CVA placed it. This 'perfect' QRBP would be able to absorb more flame channel plugging carbon, before a required cleaning, and would be every bit as reliable as the plug CVA is selling. With the longer flame channel the 1/8" diameter is just about perfect, however the shorter flame channel of the plug CVA is selling, can benefit by being 5/32" diameter.

Yes, yes, this is just one old carpenter' opinion.

Me too. Kodiaks are long forgotten.

Yea the Kodiaks did'nt stay around too long, I did buy 2 when they first came out, a regular and a Pro, the wife uses the regular Koidak, blued with a Mossy Oak Stock, I've never seen another this way.
We both use Pyro, RS and Pellets, no need for BH or a different BP. Iike the way Pyro works and dont mind a little cleaning. I wish My Accura's (3) would have had the QRBP but I can live without it, Im about as close as one can be to getting a Accura V2 just because, or mabey a Optima. But being so used to the style of the Accura Im afraid I may not get used to the Optima.....how about you MD, is it hard for you to switch from one to the other? Either way Im still staying with Pyro.
(BP)

i prefer the Optima myself. The Accura MR however might change my mind.

The kodiak pro breech plug ignites Bh209 as long as the BP flash channel is kept clean.i know of several people who live in cold climates that have no problems with that rifles BP. all i shoot in my Triumph and kodiak pro is BH209 and a BH209 specific plug would be a nice feature.i can always have Ron upgrade it if necessary also.