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A couple days ago I was in our local Scheels to pick up a dehydrator and stopped in the muzzleloading section to snoop around. Not that I really need anything, but well, just habit. For a while I've been thinking I need another solid aluminum rod that I can have one for the range and in the case with the Patriot and they CVA 27" rods there with the knob. I read the label and it said they were tapped 10/32 which I need for my jag that fits the Fury bullets. I wasn't carrying enough money right then to buy one so this morning I drove back to the store and grabbed one, making sure it had no flex like the fiberglass ones they also had. As I was walking down to the check-out I noticed that the insert for the attachments was missing so I went back up to the department and picked another rod. I checked that one before I left and what should I find? A neatly drilled hole on the end of the rod just like the other rod. Since there were two lengths in the solid aluminum available there I checked every one. No insert. Then I started pulling rods on the display guns and again, no inserts. New rifles, no inserts.
A guy from the gun department happened by and asked if I needed help. I asked what the hell was up with the rods and he said you just unscrew the knob thing and screw in your attachment. I asked him about seating a bullet with the 1/4" hole and thin sidewalls end of the rod. "Ya, you maybe could get cut if you pushed down real hard. Or you could set the knob thingy back on the open end to push down", was his reply. "Ya think" I said? Then I told him they'd better send them back before lawsuits start rolling in.
"Why in the Sam hell would anyone make a rod and drill the utility end out and not drill it and tap it to accept the jags and brushes and so on" I asked the guy? All I got was a shrug of the shoulders and he walked off.
I've got a bunch of CVA guns, all at least 6 years old. The oldest is my .45 Kodiak and its as fine a shooter as all of the others. It just seems like in the last 5 or so years CVA has gone to extraordinary lengths to just flat out screw the consumer. These replacement rods are no exception. I think while I am still pissed, I'll write the A-Holes a letter and let them know that I am about done with them in spite of being happy with what I have got. This **** should not be on the retail market.
A guy from the gun department happened by and asked if I needed help. I asked what the hell was up with the rods and he said you just unscrew the knob thing and screw in your attachment. I asked him about seating a bullet with the 1/4" hole and thin sidewalls end of the rod. "Ya, you maybe could get cut if you pushed down real hard. Or you could set the knob thingy back on the open end to push down", was his reply. "Ya think" I said? Then I told him they'd better send them back before lawsuits start rolling in.
"Why in the Sam hell would anyone make a rod and drill the utility end out and not drill it and tap it to accept the jags and brushes and so on" I asked the guy? All I got was a shrug of the shoulders and he walked off.
I've got a bunch of CVA guns, all at least 6 years old. The oldest is my .45 Kodiak and its as fine a shooter as all of the others. It just seems like in the last 5 or so years CVA has gone to extraordinary lengths to just flat out screw the consumer. These replacement rods are no exception. I think while I am still pissed, I'll write the A-Holes a letter and let them know that I am about done with them in spite of being happy with what I have got. This **** should not be on the retail market.