CVA Paramount HTR 40 caliber

I have had more than one customer give me feedback that the .452” diameter bullets free fall muzzle to breech without sizing. I have had others say that no sizing was required and some that had to size their bullets. I’m curious if the same feedback is given with the .40 version.

I don't think the 40 caliber is out in the general public yet. As far as the 45 caliber I can believe there would be a issue with shooting sabtless all depends on what bore demensions they run thats why they use a ELR Powerbelt design.

I have no interest in buying a Paramount but the 40 Caliber caught my eye. At least CVA is trying to think out of the box and offer more performance than the other muzzleloader makers. In the few articles I have come across some say speeds on the 40 caliber can go over 2800fps so that is pretty inpressive and the groups they shot at 500 yards are too. There variflame system is backwards they are  still stuck putting the primer into the breech plug by hand with a magnetic tool I guess they have not heard of machining the bolt head for a primer or a module.

So muzzleloader hunters with have a new option for 2021. The vast majority of muzzleloader guys buy the cheapest guns they can and shoot a pack of bullets once a season. Then you have the next group that are looking for something better and might buy a TC or a CVA Accura or a Rem Ulta. or a Knight then when people start getting serios they can get into smokeless with a break action or a barrel nut gun and finally the die hard bunch like us that want a high performance muzzleloader which doesn't come cheap when you factor in all the accessories that go with it.

So its nice to see some progress in the muzzleloader industry. They state a 1-20 twist for the 40caliber thats on the slow side especially for any of Kyles bullets but there only shooting a 225 or 230grain bullet they could probably go up to 250 or maybe a little more which is probably there next step right now their after the most velocity they can get out of it for advertising

The max load of BH209 for both the 40 and 45 in the new HTR is 119grs by weight or 170grs by volume I would think the 40 will generate more pressure than the 45 caliber. Just have to wait na dsee what will really happen once the gun hits the market. I have not looked at the Knight.

I see that the charge is 150grs by volume on a video they said 170grs. Till the gun gets released and actually tested for a while I think there will be a lot of miss info on this 40 caliber. They do offer a huge claim shell brake which really looks out of place on this rifle IMHO. I like my brakes to be machined perfectly to the contour of the barrel so you can't tell where it actually joins the barrel it doesn't require that much extra machine time when its in the lathe to do that anything else just looks like a add on part.

Probably the 45 would be the better option mainly because of bullet selection. and all that depends on how big the bore is. I think they lowered the powder charges mainly because a lot of people won't take the time to weigh them out on a scale you can be off quite a bit going by volume on a volume tube everybody reads those differently by several grains.

So enough said on the CVA time will tell how good it might be when they really get out into the shooting world. I have had several break action CVA guns over the years and they have all shot really well. My CVA 45/70 Scout 2 shoots really well and is a solid build gun for the money. Like I said in a earlier post most people don't spend a lot of money on a muzzleloader so at $1200 bucks that puts this above the Remington 700 ultimate muzzleloader which can be turned into a dual purpose switch barrel gun the CVA is strictly a muzzleloader but it is also a non FFL gun.

Smokeless rated barrel change on a Paramount.............   IIRC those Paramount barrel threads are about as bast..... a MM thread as they could possibly make it.

I don't know how they get around selling this as a non FFL gun since the bolt has two lugs on it. When I looked into making actions that was considered a FFL requirement if it had any type of lug on the bolt.
Arrowhead does sell a bolt head and breech plug conversion I have no idea what the thread pitch is on this action if its made in Italy then it would have a metric pitch which would be doable on any decent lathe.

I find it odd that they don't use their palm saver ramrod and install it right on the barrel I use their palm saver ramrods and all the time and put a spin jag on the bottom I don't like the idea of carry a 3 piece rod around you can easily forget to take it along when you go shooting or hunting. And you get a lot less questions from the Game warden if you get stopped they all think your carrying a high power rifle.

As far as converting one to smokeless that all depends on what you want. If the action is decent and the trigger is a good adjustable trigger and you like the stock and it has a good bedding job from the factory then the cost of converting this muzzleloader might be cheaper than doing a Savage or a Rem ML action. Used Savage muzzleloaders bring crazy prices so you can easily pay more for a old Savage than what this Paramount cost. Nothing is cheap in the bolt action guns the cheapest is a barrel nut for a Rem 700 action for a person that can do the work themselves but you end up with a small shank barrel that limits the performance you can safely get there is always some trade of somewhere.

I didn't take notice that there was a thread started about this gun on the black powder board already maybe we should move this topic over there my mistake for not catching that I don't check that out near enough.