It's a very accurate rifle. I can put three shots together touching at 100 yards if I do my part. It opens up to an inche or so at 150 yards and 3 inches at 200 yards. I use 100 grains by volume of Blackhorn 209 and the 290 grn Barnes TMZ (yellow sabots).

Bergara All of our guns are designed and assembled in our state-of-the art production facility located in the little town of Bergara in northern Spain - a region that has been famous for gun making for hundreds of years.

These days there are many quality muzzleloaders capable of precision accuracy at 200 yards. But maximizing muzzleloader accuracy is more difficult than shooting tight groups with a centerfire rifle.

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CVA was definitely up to this challenge in delivering a muzzleloader capable of accuracy out to 400 yards and beyond.

27-inch It is these Bergara barrels that enable CVA to guarantee the ACCURA series rifles to be the “The Most Accurate Muzzleloader You've Ever Shot - Or Your Money Back.” The 27-inch barrel has 1:28 twist rifling, offering great bullet stability and plenty of bore to burn all the powder efficiently.

In 1999, the Spaniard-owned Dikar Corp., which controls Lawrenceville, Ga. -based BPI Outdoors, purchased Connecticut Valley Arms Co., a small maker of affordable muzzleloaders. BPI executives in Georgia very quickly realized that third-party barrel suppliers hamstrung their new muzzleloader brand CVA.

The muzzleloading rifle is the oldest firearm on earth. It has been around since the start of the 17th century, yet the past 25 years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in muzzleloaders.

Barrel length: 26''. Overall length: 41''. Length of pull: 14". Weight: 6.65 lbs.

Two hundred yards is the maximum range for most muzzleloader hunters, so you don't need anything more powerful than the standard 3-9x scope common on many deer rifles.

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Firearm muzzle velocities range from approximately 120 m/s (390 ft/s) to 370 m/s (1,200 ft/s) in black powder muskets, to more than 1,200 m/s (3,900 ft/s) in modern rifles with high-velocity cartridges such as the .

Know the Limits. Yes, it's a gun with a scope. But 200 yards is a long shot for a muzzleloader, particularly given that most hunters have never shot their guns past 100 yards. As mentioned above, most setups are clocking around 1,700 fps with the average 250-grain (or heavier) bullet.