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I had two of those CVA Scouts in 450 BM, one stainless and one bronze cerakote. I kept the bronze cerakote and sold the stainless. Both rifles initially shot a little loose and tightened up significantly after about 15-20 shots. I do not believe these barrels are hand lapped given the low price of the rifle so I chose to clean my barrel after each shot with Bore Tech Cu+2 copper remover for the first 10 shots. That stuff is great by the way. I initially had a little copper showing on my patch for the first 5-10 shots on both rifles but after that no more copper and the rifle went from a little over 1 inch at 100yds to about 3/4.
My buddy zeroed his CVA 450 at the same time as me. His rifle took about 40 rounds to settle in using the same cleaning method I did. He had copper showing for well over 20 rounds before he could get sub moa and a copper free patch.
Here's a great video on the CVA Scout 45/70 sml conversion.
I lapped my barrel before I even shot it with Montana Xtreme bore polish. 1st 2 shots at 100 yds were touching!