I am in the market for my first muzzleloader and I would like some opinions on the Wolf and the Optima.

All of my muzzleloaders are CVA. They just plain work. I have had some others that were much more expensive, but they didn't shoot as well, or clean up as easily. I do not have the Wolf, but I have an Optima Pro and a Kodiak magnum. They are great guns. The only issue I have is that the Optima break down lever hits my finger when I close the rifle. OUCH!

I've had 2 in my lifetime. a big bore mtn. rifle, years ago, and a Wolf, now. My son also has a wolf. They are excellent guns for the money, and I've had zero issues with mine.

BTW, also bought a CVA scout, 44 mag., for deer season, next yr.


Mad Dog

I'm not much of a muzzel loader guy but when I spent a couple winters in Indiana a few years ago I had a reason to buy one. I first bought a Lyman deer stalker with a peep sight and I was impressed how well it shot for a kind of traditional rifle.

A friend offered me a CVA inline for a $100 so I bought it and put an old weaver V 3-9 scope on it. That rifle shot real well and I could find nothing wrong with it. I thought it was great.

The one small complaint I had with that rifle was that the 209 primers were a little hard to load.

When I quit spending my winters in southern IN I gave that gun to my brother in law, He calls it the Cadillac.

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Originally posted by Akshooter:


A friend offered me a CVA inline for a $100 so I bought it and put an old weaver V 3-9 scope on it. That rifle shot real well and I could find nothing wrong with it. I thought it was great.

The one small complaint I had with that rifle was that the 209 primers were a little hard to load.

I have used my CVA Firebolt Ultramag for 5 seasons. I've never used a 209 primer in it because I've still got hundreds of Remington *57 shotshell primers from decades ago, but none of the long discontinued Rem hulls to load them in...they are a smidge smaller in diameter than the 209's yet don't spit back upon firing, so easy to extract with the use of CVA's special tool.