Mark the rod where it goes in and mark it 24' up the rod. We could go back and forth all day about the twist rate but the best way to find out is take your ram rod with a cleaning jag and a tight patch. RBs shot better and it is a decent shooter. Mine shoot Lee REALs pretty well except for occational flyers which would tend me to believe that it was on the edge of stability with having the right twist. One mans accurate is different than another. I know that contradicts what I said earlier but it also depends on what you accurate means. CVA does their own guns now so I understand.Īnyway since your dad said it shot conicals well I would think it would have a tighter twist than 1/66, more like 1/48. Back then there weren't allot of BP guns around so there were few manufactures. My parts at that time matched CVA perfectly so either CVA imported them or thet were made an marketed under allot of different names. Mine I bought used(in early 80's) and later on converted to a Rock lock a few years later. Best I can tell they were imported and maketed by CVA. I would have to say by an educated guess you have a 1/66 twist. and, if the Gunsmith had to make a part by hand, the repair bill was typically very close to the cost of a new rifle. I think the advertisement may have sold a lot of guns.īack in that day Black Powder shooting was just catching on good, and many Gunsmiths didn't want to mess with these guns because parts were extremely hard to come by. When they were being produced, I remember the advertisement at that time was Jukar was ' The world's largest producer of Black Powder guns'. However, at the price they were being sold for, they sold a bunch of 'em. One thing is / was fairly obivous with every one I ever looked at, and that was the fact they are not top quality. Turner Kirkland at DGW must have sold thousands of those things because they were suddenly seen everywhere.Īlthough they were considered an entry level gun, many are still around and are still very functional. Jukar came along sometime in the early 1970's. 45 of yours will 'most likely' have a twist of 1:48 which was, and still is a very common twist for the.

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