marvinl
January 31, 2012, 06:47 PM
I just bought a 85 Cva blazer it was a little rough but it cleaned up nice is there anything I should know about it?
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marvinl January 31, 2012, 06:47 PM I just bought a 85 Cva blazer it was a little rough but it cleaned up nice is there anything I should know about it?
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arcticap January 31, 2012, 08:59 PM I owned one for a brief time. It had small hairline cracks in the stock directly behind the barrel breech due to recoil which I think that other Blazers have also been known to develop. If original, the nipple that it came with seemed to need replacement. It was the type that had a hole in the cone. IIRC the trigger assembly has some very short 1/2 pins that hold the major trigger parts in place within the steel housing. Once I took those pins out to clean the trigger parts, the pins weren't very secure after being reinserted and felt loose. So I placed a piece of tape on the outside of the trigger housing to keep them from backing out before putting the unit back into the stock just as a precaution for the next time that the unit was removed. And because the hammer spring was partially exposed behind the hammer, it was a little rusty from previous contact with powder residue, so try to keep it clean and oiled. I can't tell you what it prefers to shoot with it's 1 in 38" twist. It seemed to spread the patched balls around the target more than most 1 in 48" guns and I sold it after one range session. Mine had high replacement sights that were zeroed in for shooting conicals at long range. Being such a light weight gun, I think that shooting any conicals with it would have produced some felt recoil, which also caused the small cracks to develop in the stock. The cracks didn't require repair and probably wouldn't have gotten any worse. And because the gun has an exposed nipple that's located fairly close to the eye during firing, I suggest to definitely wear safety glasses when firing it. marvinl January 31, 2012, 09:27 PM Thanks that is real helpful. New toy for me just did not want to do something stupid. frontiergander February 2, 2012, 02:12 PM Fun lil muzzy! I'd keep the charge around 90gr 2f and a max of 300gr conical. The beech wood is pretty soft and can crack easily, especially by the breech where it just mates up against the wood.
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