CVA Electra....Good or Bad?

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I'm just wondering how people feel about electronic ignition??I think it will be a nitemare..The more components you have the more chances for failure..It wouldnt be like picken out a bad primer..Plus I think it just takes away from what muzzleloading is supposed to be about..How can something with electronic anything fall under primitive..Just think how the antis will twist this around..I think technology is good when products are developed to insure quick humane kills, but I guess now people just want it to be easy, with human error out of the equation..I kinda rambled and cant type fast enuff to really say what I think but if this is successful[I doubt] it will set a sad standard for whats to come..JMO
 
I remember that Remington tried something similar several years back with their centerfire line and it never really took off. I believe it'll be a short lived venture.
 
From Page # 21 of the new regulations book. Check out #3. A Electra would be Illegal!

LEGAL EQUIPMENT
DEER, BEAR, BOAR AND FERAL HOG
HUNTING
1. Shotguns using ammunition loaded
with single solid ball or rifled slugs.
No restriction on number of rounds in
magazine.
2. Rifles using any center-fire ammunition,
in all counties except where regulated by
legislative acts.
3. Muzzle-loading percussion cap or
flintlock rifles, handguns or shotguns
of .40 caliber (.40-inches) minimum.
These muzzle-loading firearms are legal
during any gun season or hunt unless
otherwise specified. Muzzleloading
firearms are defined as those firearms
which are incapable of being loaded
from the breech.
4. Longbows, compound bows, crossbows
and other bows drawn or held by a mechanical
device.
5. Hunting arrows and bolts shall be of a
barbless design and shall have sharpened
blades.
6. Handguns using any single shot center
fire ammunition and having a barrel
length of four inches or more, in all
counties except where regulated by
legislative acts.
7. Weapons may be equipped with sighting
devices except those devices utilizing an
artificial light capable of locating wildlife.
Night vision scopes are illegal.
 
i dont think there any worse than any inline rifle & it states in plain english the definition of a muzzle loader "Muzzleloading
firearms are defined as those firearms
which are incapable of being loaded
from the breech" not as to type of ignition so i think they are legal,mike243
 
But it defines them more with this statement:

Muzzle-loading percussion cap or
flintlock rifles, handguns or shotguns
of .40 caliber (.40-inches) minimum.
 
I believe one could make the argument that a 209 primer is a form of percussion cap, but there is no way to argue that point with the electra.
 
209 is a cap that is placed onto the nipple of a ML. And fired by the hammer slamming into the firing pin which is then slammed in to the cap, igniting the powder charge. Percussion!

Merrian/Webster deffinition:

Main Entry: per�cus�sion
Function: noun
Pronunciation: pur-'ka-shun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin percussion-, percussio, from percutere to beat, from per- thoroughly + quatere to shake
1 : the act of percussing: as a : the striking of a percussion cap so as to set off the charge in a firearm b : the beating or striking of a musical instrument c : the act or technique of tapping the surface of a body part to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the resultant sound
2 : the striking of sound on the ear
3 : percussion instruments that form a section of a band or orchestra
- percussion adjective

LOL :D
 
CHRIS WILSON said:
I believe one could make the argument that a 209 primer is a form of percussion cap, but there is no way to argue that point with the electra.
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Yep....

good or bad.. like to see them excluded for M/L season as well as the any shooting "smokeless powder" - don't care about the goin' dow the muzzel business...
 
If it doesn't have a flash pan then they all should be band, OH except for for my CVA Optima Pro
 
If they are illegal then someone needs to tell the knowitalls at Bass Pro Shops in Sevierville. I was there Sat looking at ML's and they had a electra. I asked the the dumba$$ behind the counter if they were legal and he said "sure there legal". I didn't argue, cause like my mother always said, "to argue with a fool is to become one". To make matters worse, there was a young man there buying a shotgun. It was a Rem 870. It had a 28"barrel with a rem choke in it, appeared to be a ic or a mod choke. and the guy working behind the counter, told the young man, that the gun was the perfect out of the box turkey gun, since it came with a turkey barrel and choke. Idiots!!
 
Let me ask you this.....Would you load your ML with a fresh cap on the breach and the safety "on"? I know I wouldn't.

I wouldn't get a warm fuzzy about packin' bullet and powder down the barrel of a gun which operates off a ciruit board (I'm guessing not made in the USA) with the battery connected with the safety on....

nah, I wouldn't have one, legal or not.
 
The question I'd like an answer to is this: Has anyone bought one? How does it shoot? How hard is it to operate? How easy to clean?

You guys who want flintlocks to be the only legal muzzleloaders probably also want longbows to be the only legal archery equipment! I imagine there were some 'purists' who carped about recurved bows when they first came out. Just use what you're comfortable with, and let everyone else do the same.

But again... does anybody OWN one? If so, please tell us about it!
 

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