That was the old Variflame that used a small primer. The new one is actually called Large Rifle Variflame. Until someone actually gets one we just dont know if its standard LRVF or a special order from CVA. I saw a guy in another video say that the twist was 1-28 too but we know that is wrong.
Old https://www.prbullet.com/vf.htm
New https://www.prbullet.com/lrvf.htm
Chad Schearer is one of the big shots at CVA. Chad Schearer director of advertising/media relations, BPI Outdoors (parent company of CVA). You would think he would know what he's talking about? Unless he meant that there will be 2 different breech plugs? One for the Large Vari-Flame, and one for 209 primers? The bolt face is supposed to be self headspacing, and there is nothing that extracts either primer. A 209 primer insert could be added to the Vari-Flame breech plug, or an easy aftermarket 209 plug could be made. Maybe Luke is already on it?
Anyway, here is what Schearer said.
“The Paramount was built around CVA’s VariFlame breech plug, which uses a hotter and more consistent large rifle primer rather than the 209 shotshell primer,” Schearer says. “With the VariFlame our extreme spreads in velocities suddenly went to single digits. This was huge for long-range accuracy. You can still use the standard 209 primer, if you wish, but to really access all the performance of which this rifle is capable, and by that I mean range and consistent accuracy, we recommend using the large rifle primer.”
https://www.range365.com/cva-paramount-muzzleloader-rifle-review#page-3
Looks pretty clear to me. What else could he have meant? 2 Breech Plugs???
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