Black MZ in my CVA Hawken

[frontiergander]

Well today I wanted to see how well Black MZ worked in my CVA Hawken .58cal 1:66 twist muzzy. I built her for big game and so that means heavy loads of Goex or Olde Eynsford, but with the Black MZ on hand, why not?


Using 100 grains volume Black MZ, .562" round ball .020" patch lubed with moose milk and rung out " Wet patches kill accuracy" I set up a target at 75 yards and got down to it.
I did swab between shots for this group.


Not to happy with that group, I went and decided to NOT swab the bore and see how that did, along with a few minutes between shots, I also UPPED my charge to 110 grains Black MZ.


Now we are talkin!! A weird straight up and down group, but hey, shes groupin a lot more consistent.

Once again, I let the gun cool down and went back later in the evening with a new target a little easier to see with my thick front sight and shot my first 2 shots, Aprox 1 1/4" apart, one click down on my sight and I was printing the same darn group! Its ready for 100 yards tomorrow.


110 grain patches I recovered.


Earlier I tried the dry patch method and 2 out of 5 shots hit the target. After recovering the patches, I now know why LOL.

 

[ivankerley]

awesome! now a few questions on that CVA, did ya refinish the stock, looks great alot of character and the rear site is it factory or did you swap out the factory for this one, once again i like the sight youve got on it. I got an old .50 CVA hawkens and was thinking of swapping the CVA site out for something more like you got and eventually refinishing the stock on mine to something alittle darker than factory
Thanks
Gene

 

[frontiergander]

Yes it was a kit stock i bought in Sept '12. The front sight is a very thick custom blank sight that i filed down to where it needed to be, the front sight is adjustable and gives me 3" increments @ 100 yards.That sight was taken off a marlin 336 30-30 many years ago. I do plan on trying a globe front sight and a williams peep sight some time when i can figure out what i want.

The stock was finished with 3 coats birchwood casey walnut, 0000 steel wool soaked in boiled linseed oil and lightly buffed. Next step was 20something coats of hand rubbed truoil.

 

[ivankerley]

Yes it was a kit stock i bought in Sept '12. The front sight is a very thick custom blank sight that i filed down to where it needed to be, the front sight is adjustable and gives me 3" increments @ 100 yards.That sight was taken off a marlin 336 30-30 many years ago. I do plan on trying a globe front sight and a williams peep sight some time when i can figure out what i want.

The stock was finished with 3 coats birchwood casey walnut, 0000 steel wool soaked in boiled linseed oil and lightly buffed. Next step was 20something coats of hand rubbed truoil.

thanks, looks great and kinda what i have in mind for mine eventually... love mine and it looks good but could look better i.e more like yours
Gene