Legacy

Hoping to shoot one! I'm basically tagged out. So my options now are hogs and/or a trophy buck. So if I see a another buck worthy of shooting at I can purchase a second buck tag after the fact. As for pigs...They're here but there isn't a million of them. One of the guys here at camp shot one yesterday afternoon on the same ranch I was on. 250#+ sow

Good morning from Texas!!! (Day #3)

Big doe down! #2

Doe= 104# (I was told she was a very big doe) Buck= 127# and 5.5 yo

Big doe down! She's almost as big as my buck!

Big Texas buck down!!!! Mainframe 10 or with 3 kickers. 142 6/8" green score and only 127#

BBD!

Well I have arrived here at Adobe lodge. 8 guys in camp and I'm the new guy here. No doubt Texas is a completely different world next to what I'm used to in the woods. Yesterday afternoon was our first hunt of our adventure. A big fat goose egg for me on my first sit but 2 guys did score on bucks.

My first hunt is this afternoon.

Headed to Adobe Lodge (https://www.adobelodge.com/) in Texas this week. Hunting the 16-20. I am looking forward to the trip and I will hopefully have some updates from the field.

Congrats to Tommy!

Well I just finished filing a police report on a stolen trail camera. Gotta love gun season... I will say that Tactacam customer service is amazing. Lets hope this person gets caught and charged.

congrats!

Good luck to everyone as the late season begins. Remember all tags are valid.

Im curious too. I figure best case scenario is they install a new barrel and worst case they tell me everything is fine and ship it back to me. I have shot a bunch of different ammo out of it (with the blackhorn 209) and have not been impressed. Correct powerbelt is owned by CVA and I actually doubted their suggestion at first because of it.

I have never been a fan of powerbelts. But after a long series of conversations with CVA it is their recommended bullet when shooting blackhorn 209. Their bullet recommendations change with the powder type.

With all the drama with my CVA accura v2 I decided to buy another gun while I wait for CVA to diagnose my gun issue. I purchased a new CVA Optima V2 with a nitride barrel (same gun as a accura v2 just current model). Today I did some bullet testing and in the end the new gun shot very good. Now that I have a clear winner with ammo I need to spend some time fine tuning. So CVA recommends using ELR powerbelts and 120 grains (volume) of black horn . My three bullet combos that I shot were ELR powerbelts, Barnes spit fire tmz w/ standard yellow sabot, and Barnes spit fire with harvester ribbed sabots. The results in the end were no doubt in favor of the powerbelts even with making scope adjustments between shots. (6 round target =powerbelts and 4 round target is Barnes spit fire tmz). The shots using the harvester sabots never hit paper so I halted that experiment Immediately.

Well the muzzleloader drama continues... I went and shot my CVA accura v2 a couple weeks ago and the results were terrible. (Let me just say that since I purchased this gun I have not been impressed). To back up a bit.... last year I missed two bucks at 55 yards and thought it was an issue with the scope. A new scope was purchased and the gun seemed to shoot ok after that but not great. Fast forward to this year. My first shot out of the gun at the range this year was 12" high at 100 yards. After a couple dozen rounds and few different powder measurements I just gave up. 110 grains (volume) of black horn and Barnes spit fire tmz bullets are the combo that has been highly recommended to me and that's what I have tried to make work. However the gun continues to be terribly inconsistent. I contacted CVA and they requested that I ship the gun to them. I'm waiting to hear from them. I'm hoping they swap the barrel and ship it back to me but who knows. Picture= the last three shots at the range that day. 100 yards from a lead sled.

Congrats on the buck and hopefully everything works out for your dad.