New cat in the house!
Well, CVA Bobcat (black stock) in .50 to go with its big brother the CVA Lynx in .54
Couldn't turn it down for $90 shipped, though I resisted for 5 or 6 hours hoping someone else would claim it.
Now of course the question becomes "what to do with it".... Well, it needs a few things.
1 - new nipple, the one on it must be for something smaller than even #10 'cause #11s fall off and #10s still have lots of wiggle (compared to my revolver #10 nipples)
2 - maybe new rear sight. Has some weird forward angled (about 45 degrees) buckhorn on the back.
Now I don't need two large caliber BP rifles... but I'm not sure if I want to sell one of 'em off or maybe look into having the bore on one of them drilled out to remove the rifling and make it a smoothie. Problem with doing that is most ML 'smiths won't do CVA percussions due to how the breech plug and drum are installed. And I think relining it to .36 would involve the same breech plug/drum issues.
