It's alive! Another CVA Frankenstein -- SPF

[mongrel]

This will make a neat little weekend project for someone and will finish up into a fine rifle for a smaller adult or larger kid. It's a NOS CVA Frontier barrel and CVA lock installed into the stock of one of the Spanish-made "Hawkens" marketed by various distributors (in other words the stock might be a CVA, might be a Traditions, might be one of Gander Mountain's or Bass Pro's in-house versions -- I dunno). I replaced the lost original underrib with a new piece with a soldered-on ramrod pipe, and replaced the (missing) original ramrod with an unoiled but functional new one fitted with a single 10-32 tip. I also added a fancy little rear lock bolt washer to replace the bleh round one. Everything is fitted up and the gun is completely shootable as it sits, but I don't believe the barrel has ever had a round put through it, all the steel except the case-colored lock is in the white, and the stock needs sanded down and refinished to be in like-new condition -- I can't see leaving it a scuzzy-looking mutt when, like I say, a weekend of easy work will turn it into a genuinely new rifle. Barrel length is 24", it's a .50 caliber, and the length of pull is a hair over 13". Fixed sights and single trigger make it about impossible for anything to go wrong or get out of whack. I'm offering this one on GunBroker with a $165 starting bid price and $20 shipping; speak for it before a bid is placed and it's yours for a flat $170, shipped.

[da_backwoodsman]

Still available?

[mongrel]

Still available?

Yepper. Kind of surprised, but it's still up for grabs.

[da_backwoodsman]

Hey Mongrel is this rifle still available? one of the guys at my ranch is seriously interested in it and is willing to buy it.

[mongrel]

I refinished this one and re-posted it in the "Factory Rifles" topic, but I'll update this thread anyhow. The rifle has had the barrel cold-blued, the brass polished, and the stock sanded down and refinished with first a deep red-brown alcohol-based stain and then a lemon-oil-and-beeswax mixture that one of the knifemakers at Friendship insisted I try (and I was out of tung oil and cash when I needed to get some finish on the stained wood). Balancing the extra work done against my post-Friendship desire to raise some cash, the price is now adjusted to a firm $180, shipped.

[Plainsman]

Damn! What a difference a refinish made! And a hell of a good price to.

[Dogshirt]

PM sent.

[mongrel]

Sold pending fundulation.