CVA Electra ML accident

[52Bore]

Saw this post on a hunting page in my state.
I did not share the gruesome photos.
Electric ignition is not allowed in NMLRA competitions as well as a few states.

 

[toytruck]

Loaded an primed inside the house then muzzle pointed at his foot?

 

[southdakbearfan]

There is no prime in an electric, it failed and ignited by itself by my reading.

granted I wouldn’t have loaded it inside.

 

[Muley Hunter]

This is why it's illegal in my state.

 

[MSalyards]

All guns are loaded or treated so! That's nuts!

 

[toytruck]

There is no prime in an electric, it failed and ignited by itself by my reading.

granted I wouldn’t have loaded it inside.

"I turned the selector on" that's primed to me. The gun wouldn't have fired otherwise....

 

[dbowling]

Dumb on his part for having gun pointed at foot turned on ready to fire, should always be pointed down range or straight up in air outside.
You cant fix stupid, good someone else didnt get hurt. Toytruck is correct as soon as he turned it on it was ready to fire there for primed.

 

[chaded]

Im not excusing the lack of safety precautions but the gun still shouldn’t have fired on its own without pulling the trigger, period. I think saying a guy that had his foot taken off ”got what he deserved” is pretty harsh.

 

[toytruck]

Never had sympathy for stupidity..
I had to sew up a guy's foot in the military that did a similar thing.

 

[gle3105]

If you’re gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough!

 

[gle3105]

Sorry to hear of the injury regardless.

 

[rangerod]

Im not excusing the lack of safety precautions but the gun still shouldn’t have fired on its own without pulling the trigger, period. I think saying a guy that had his foot taken off ”got what he deserved” is pretty harsh.

You are absolutely right. Mistakes were made but awful to say he got what he deserved.

 

[52Bore]

Here’s some more that was posted today..

 

[Muley Hunter]

Well, he ended up with a New MR, a hole in his foot, and learned a lesson. It could have been worse.

 

[cvco]

Very sorry to hear news like that. As ive posted previously, I do not believe in carrying a loaded gun anytime, though many on the forum carry loaded. I load when Im ready to shoot and the gun is pointed down range. I dont even agree to having the hammer down on an empty revolver chamber. We cant foresee events that lead to negligent discharges, they happen rapidly before we can think about them, then we kick ourselves and cant turn back the clock. Very sorry for that fellow.

 

[ENCORE50A]

I think my nephew has one of those rifles absolutely NIB, never fired. I'll ask him to be certain. He might just want to see if CVA will replace it with something that will work.


Yup, he just responded. Brand new in the original box never loaded or fired. I doubt he'll ever shoot it, especially now.

 

[rangerod]

At one time I was kinda intrigued with the Electra and thought I wanted one. Not so much now. In fact I think I may have posted about it.

 

[phalanx]

Yikes! I have two of them. Sit in the safe and may forever now after reading this post but he did have warning signs, burning up two ignitors so something was going on with the circuit.

John

 

[Ae1m]

Saw this post on a hunting page in my state.
I did not share the gruesome photos.
Electric ignition is not allowed in NMLRA competitions as well as a few states.

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Violates the first rule of safe gun handling. Never point a gun at something you don't want to destroy. Loaded or unloaded, but especially loaded!

 

[HV-Muzzleloaders]

I would not load something like this with the battery in it, just as I would not load my rifles with a primer in them.