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CCI Large Rifle #200 primers
I would try some Large Rifle Magnum primers.
CCI Large Rifle #200 primers
Theres no need to do that with that gunWhy don't you drop your powder charge down to 110 gr to 120 gr by volume to see what happens.
CVA advises against this per their owners manual they send with the gun.I would try some Large Rifle Magnum primers.
Primer should be fine. A 209 Mag primer is probably not nearly as hot as an LR primer, it wasn't designed to ignite massive amounts of powder as. The LR was designed for.Are the large rifle primers hot enough for the powder? I do not have experience with the rifle primers, I use federal 209A which are very hot and recommended by blackhorn.
I was getting a good amount of blow by which meant that cleaning the face of the firing pin bushing and even inside the action was painful. I was getting fouling on the firing pin spring! Cleaning the back of the breech plug where the primer went in was also a pain.
I now use o-rings in the primer pocket and I have no blow by.
I didn't want to have to go to installing o-rings but they work great.
Additionally, you might want a tighter fit on the sabot. From reading a lot of reviews I don't think the power belts are very good. I used them my first season and killed a deer but I didn't get great groups.
So I think your primer and slugs are suspect.
Where does it say that because its not what im seeing?CVA advises against this per their owners manual they send with the gun.
There are several brands of standard and magnum large rifle primers and
all should work acceptably well, but standard primers seem to have a
slight performance edge over magnum primers. The important thing is to
consistently use the same brand and type of primer each time. During final
testing we used Federal® brand large rifle primers
Any idea what causes the ramrod to stick to the bullet.I had the same problem with the collapsible ramrod end sticking to the Powerbelt ELR 40 cal bullets. It was actually pulling the bullet off seat. I figured it was something CVA didn’t catch before it all went out to the public. I started to email CVA about the problem but did not. I figured the most they would do, is send me a new ramrod that would do the same thing. To alleviate the problem, I stuffed the hole full of loose cotton. Worked like a charm. No more sticking bullets. About the blowback problem ? So far I have not used the 209 breech plug, so I can’t say if the bolt face will press hard enough against the 209 primer rim to create a good gas seal. I can say that with the Vari-flame breech plug the bolt face does press hard enough against the Vari flame adapter to create a good gas seal. Also I don’t have any gas leakage coming back past the plug threads. Any good quality breech plug thread sealer should work fine, but after 30 years, I’m still using White Super Grease, which is the same as blue moly. Remember, if your using a maximum charge of BH 209, then you should be using the Vari flame breech plug for maximum accuracy and to eliminate the problem of the 209 primer sticking under extreme gas pressure.
It is probably the angle on the recess in the end of the rod. You might be able to widen the angle on the recess, or it may need to be deeper.Any idea what causes the ramrod to stick to the bullet.
I’ve three of those Collapsible ramrods and they all stickIt is probably the angle on the recess in the end of the rod. You might be able to widen the angle on the recess, or it may need to be deeper.
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot, what I did was buy their heavy field brass three piece ram rod and then only used the two long pieces along with a 40cal spin jag, it works without sticking but is somewhat heavier than the collapsible ramrod.The hole in the end of the ramrod is like a straight shank. No taper, same size at the top and bottom. That’s why it sticks to the bullet nose, which is cone shaped. If CVA would start making the holes cone shaped to perfectly match the bullet nose, the ramrod would not be able to stick. For those who have experienced this problem, don’t think that you pushed to hard on the ramrod, or the bore may be to big, or the bullet may be to small. Quality control took a extra long coffee break, and that ramrod slipped write out the door unnoticed. Until CVA fixes this problem, you all may want to try what I did, which is fill the hole with loose cotton, then compact it with anything. A nail head or whatever is laying around, then stuff in some more if it will hold it, and compact it again.
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