Range time with the CVA Optima
09-20-2012, 08:04 AM
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Range time with the CVA Optima
Got her sighted dead on at 50 yards yesterday and so today i took it to my 100 yard range and took 3 shots and adjusted. I will make 1 click down and 1 click to the right next time out 
100gr Blackhorn209
CCI 209 M primers
250gr Thor conical .500"
Distance: 100 yards.
Scope: KonusPro 3-10x44
100gr Blackhorn209
CCI 209 M primers
250gr Thor conical .500"
Distance: 100 yards.
Scope: KonusPro 3-10x44
09-20-2012, 08:31 AM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 178
Optima Day
MD,
Yesterday must have been the day to sight in Optima's. I did the same thing, except I was just trying my new rifle out. I zeroed at 50 and quit. I shot about a dozen rounds....and it made 1 big hole. I was shooting a very similiar load 100gr. BH209, 250gr. Barnes TEZ but I had it topped with a Nikon ProStaff 3x9. I was wondering if it was dead on at 50, what it would be at 100...and your pic tells me. It will be roughly 1" high at 100 yards exactly as I expected.
I have to tell you, yesterday was my first time for loose powder and BH209. WOW that stuff sure shoots nice and clean up is a breeze.
Good shooting and nice setup you have there.
Hoosier
Yesterday must have been the day to sight in Optima's. I did the same thing, except I was just trying my new rifle out. I zeroed at 50 and quit. I shot about a dozen rounds....and it made 1 big hole. I was shooting a very similiar load 100gr. BH209, 250gr. Barnes TEZ but I had it topped with a Nikon ProStaff 3x9. I was wondering if it was dead on at 50, what it would be at 100...and your pic tells me. It will be roughly 1" high at 100 yards exactly as I expected.
I have to tell you, yesterday was my first time for loose powder and BH209. WOW that stuff sure shoots nice and clean up is a breeze.
Good shooting and nice setup you have there.
Hoosier
09-20-2012, 08:37 AM
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Yes that BH209 sure is addicting! LOL ive actually been containing my addiction very well these days and can control my shooting about. Until i get my new bullet mold and then there will be lead flyin!
09-20-2012, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Winnemucca NV
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Can you guys hunt with scopes in your states here in nv im told we cant hunt with a scope. So i have been trying to zero mine in with open sights ..... and getting no where.
Thought about buying a powderhorn scope from cabellas this pay day and maybe just using it for coyotes since im told hunting deer with a scope is illegal.
Thought about buying a powderhorn scope from cabellas this pay day and maybe just using it for coyotes since im told hunting deer with a scope is illegal.
09-20-2012, 08:49 AM
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Can not use scope in CO during muzzleloading season. My optima can only use a scope due to the thumbhole stock comb being up so high, almost impossible to use open sights unless you shim them up really high.
Start it off easy and do 25 yards, zero it 1" high and then move to 50 yards and put it dead on.
Start it off easy and do 25 yards, zero it 1" high and then move to 50 yards and put it dead on.
09-20-2012, 08:57 AM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
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MD,
Actually sighting that gun in last night cost me. My son showed up in the middle of shooting so i had him shoot 5-6 shots. He is now a believer in BH209 so I told him I would get his V1 Accura setup for BH. We've only ever shot pellets. I won't use those again...EVER!
We just kept looking at each other in dis-belief and laughing at how silly accurate it was shooting!
Now we just need a deer to walk in front of us.
Hoosier
Actually sighting that gun in last night cost me. My son showed up in the middle of shooting so i had him shoot 5-6 shots. He is now a believer in BH209 so I told him I would get his V1 Accura setup for BH. We've only ever shot pellets. I won't use those again...EVER!
We just kept looking at each other in dis-belief and laughing at how silly accurate it was shooting!
Now we just need a deer to walk in front of us.
Hoosier
