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congrats!

Good luck to everyone as the late season begins. Remember all tags are valid.

Im curious too. I figure best case scenario is they install a new barrel and worst case they tell me everything is fine and ship it back to me. I have shot a bunch of different ammo out of it (with the blackhorn 209) and have not been impressed. Correct powerbelt is owned by CVA and I actually doubted their suggestion at first because of it.

I have never been a fan of powerbelts. But after a long series of conversations with CVA it is their recommended bullet when shooting blackhorn 209. Their bullet recommendations change with the powder type.

With all the drama with my CVA accura v2 I decided to buy another gun while I wait for CVA to diagnose my gun issue. I purchased a new CVA Optima V2 with a nitride barrel (same gun as a accura v2 just current model). Today I did some bullet testing and in the end the new gun shot very good. Now that I have a clear winner with ammo I need to spend some time fine tuning. So CVA recommends using ELR powerbelts and 120 grains (volume) of black horn . My three bullet combos that I shot were ELR powerbelts, Barnes spit fire tmz w/ standard yellow sabot, and Barnes spit fire with harvester ribbed sabots. The results in the end were no doubt in favor of the powerbelts even with making scope adjustments between shots. (6 round target =powerbelts and 4 round target is Barnes spit fire tmz). The shots using the harvester sabots never hit paper so I halted that experiment Immediately.

Well the muzzleloader drama continues... I went and shot my CVA accura v2 a couple weeks ago and the results were terrible. (Let me just say that since I purchased this gun I have not been impressed). To back up a bit.... last year I missed two bucks at 55 yards and thought it was an issue with the scope. A new scope was purchased and the gun seemed to shoot ok after that but not great. Fast forward to this year. My first shot out of the gun at the range this year was 12" high at 100 yards. After a couple dozen rounds and few different powder measurements I just gave up. 110 grains (volume) of black horn and Barnes spit fire tmz bullets are the combo that has been highly recommended to me and that's what I have tried to make work. However the gun continues to be terribly inconsistent. I contacted CVA and they requested that I ship the gun to them. I'm waiting to hear from them. I'm hoping they swap the barrel and ship it back to me but who knows. Picture= the last three shots at the range that day. 100 yards from a lead sled.

Congrats on the buck and hopefully everything works out for your dad.

From Facebook... Shot in 8F... 21 point doe

Curious to know... you guys that have food plots when do those deer start to pound them this time of year and what is in them?

Time for that late season strategy change. Find that late season hot food source! These next 2 evenings sits on food should be decent so start to bank on food. Once the does start to show up in droves then the bucks will be quick to follow.

No doubt the grind time of the year! Good luck!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

November 20 am 22 degrees Frosty Partly sunny Calm wind Picture perfect morning to be in the deer woods. Cold. Hard frost. Calm wind. Perfect. My morning had a decent amount of action with lots of bucks cruising. 14 does/fawns and 8 bucks seen. Of the 8 bucks 3 of them were matures including a giant 8 pt. At about 8ish I spotted a big stud 8pt about 200 yards away. He quickly sent checked the does in front of him and moved on. Right behind him was a younger, decent buck but that seemed to be just following him around. I grunted a couple times but I'm guessing they just cruised past me in the thick stuff. About 10 minutes went by and a doe fawn popped out of the woods and then a mature doe. It was obvious they were bumped. My guess was by the two bucks I just saw. The doe and fawn were acting nervous and I was begging for another showing from the big 8. Unfortunately two young bucks from opposite directions show up and the doe and fawn quickly escape from their harassment. I watch as all the deer seem to go their separate ways and the woods goes quiet again. I'm still focused on the woods out in front of me when I hear the scuffle of leaves next to me. I turn my head expecting to see a squirrel and to my surprise this 11 point is 5 yards from me. He somehow snuck in on my blind spot and I quickly made the decision to shoot. Thankfully my gun was already in my lap (from all the previous action). I raised the gun only to realize I could find the deer in the scope. I quickly turned the power all the way down and found him in the scope. I gave him a quick mouth grunt to stop him in an opening in the thick stuff and squeezed the trigger. He quickly exited and I honestly thought for a second that I missed. His reaction to the shot didn't seem like much. I gave it about 30 minutes and got down to see if I could find blood and it was every where. I could see a blood trail going down the deer trail like someone threw red paint in the woods. I walked out and gave it two hours and returned with my kid. The blood trailing was easy and the deer was piled within 65 yards from my tree. One lung and heart shot.

BBD!