Say hello to my Little Hunting Friend

[osprey]

So with the ammo/reloading component crunch I have been tinkering with and shooting several single shots lately. This one will be a handy little deer, coyote general purpose critter getter.




It started out life as a 14" CVA pistol in 6.5 Needmoor. My vision was slightly different. I ordered a stock and a dead air muzzle device. The dead air muzzle device pin and weld was straight forward and gives me a 16.25" barrel. The stock fitting was a bit harder as the angle of the threaded boss of the pistol action vs rifle is quite different. I milled out the stock to adapt and with some gorilla epoxy and a different jesus bolt, I think it is good to go. With 120-130 grain projectiles I should clock somewhere around 2500 fps, give or take. This should give almost a 400 yard range for deer sized critters which is longer than 98% of shots I take on game. Full up with leupy 3-9 and bipod it scales right at 7.5 lbs. This is light enough to be handy and heavy enough to not be a feather in the wind. I will report back on accuracy and velocity after a range session.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Always neat to modify a rifle to fit your needs and give it a new purpose.
Hope you get a chance for a range report soon.
Andy

 

[flashpan]

Nice new friend!...love the classy backdrop. What's in the bottle?

 

[osprey]

Nice new friend!...love the classy backdrop. What's in the bottle?

Buffalo Trace bourbon of course! I vacillate between it and Bulleit Rye as my drink of choice these days.

 

[flashpan]

Of course ... nice touch!

 

[66PonyCar]

Cool little rifle! Now please tell me about the 6.5 Needmore caliber! It seems that's an appropriate name for any kind of ammo these days.

 

[Ruger Rich]

I've hunted at times over the years with with Ruger #1's. It's been awhile. The OP's post brought back many good memories.
Hunting with a single shot is somewhat akin to the feelings I got as a kid when we played Army out around the out buildings.
I was doing something slightly old timey and putting my imagination to work. And oh yeah, they were open sighted.

 

[osprey]

Today I took the little guy to the range and initial results are encouraging. I shot 2 factory loads and did a small ladder with two different powders and 2 different bullets. All bullets were between 120gr and 129gr and velocities averaged between 2440 and 2600fps out of this short spout. Best 5 shot group of the day went to one of my 123gr sst handloads at 2510fps average velocity. 5 shots went into .750". I will tweak this load and explore the accuracy and velocity potential but at face value this load already is close to meeting my expectations in this compact platform.

 

[DeanMk]

What distance did you get these results?
100 yards?

 

[osprey]

Yessir, 100 yards.

 

[DeanMk]

Then you must NEVER sell that gun.
That is some amazing accuracy, especially considering you have to break position after each shot, in order to reload.
I think that gun will end up becoming one of your favourites.

Dean

 

[osprey]

Almost every cva product I have shot in the last several years has been quite accurate. That is probably why I own 4 now. The bergara barrels and nice clean triggers out of the box help in the pursuit of accuracy. This one is showing enough potential that I peeled of the 3-9x scope and put on a brighter 4-12x vortex on it for some more testing.

 

[osprey]

This little project has shown plenty of accuracy to warrant sinking a bit more time and money into. I asked on an earlier thread if anybody had used a Lage mfg. folding stock. I got no replies so I decided to be a guinea pig for you unkept beasts! By ordering a farrow tech pistol grip with a pic rail on the back, I was able to mount the Lage folding stock and un-bubba the build a bit compared to my home made adapted conventional stock. The farrowtech pistol grip could fit the lines of the cva a bit better but other than that it is a decent product from a small 3d printer guy. The Lage stock has no shortcomings that I can see and is a great piece of kit!
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[Flopsweat]

Very cool!

Some of the images came through kind of small. I'm not sure you meant for that to happen, since your original post had a full-size image.

 

[osprey]

Yeah, I am not sure I know how to insert full images anymore. It seems like one of the updates took that option from me?

 

[Flopsweat]

Yeah, I am not sure I know how to insert full images anymore. It seems like one of the updates took that option from me?

One reason I only use tablets or computers to post here.

 

[Member 34319]

One reason I only use tablets or computers to post here.

Even that is getting squirrelly these days.

 

[Member 34319]

Thread reminds me of a few single shot projects I'be done in the past. One of which I still own, guess which one! Sort of miss the AAC collaboration one.

 

[Flopsweat]

Thread reminds me of a few single shot projects I'be done in the past. One of which I still own, guess which one! Sort of miss the AAC collaboration one.

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Is that a sort of 12 ga derringer?

 

[Member 34319]

Is that a sort of 12 ga derringer?

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