This is a parody, right?
Posted on 10/03/2007 5:34:06 PM PDT by palmer
Wearing Mossy Oak's new Duck Blind camo pattern, Blackpowder Guns & Hunting editor Chad Schearer and his wife Marsha used CVA's new Electra electronic ignition muzzleloader last month to bag wild Florida porkers.
Chad Schearer, editor of Blackpowder Guns & Hunting and a prostaffer for both CVA and Mossy Oak, made history on a January 14 hog hunt in Florida.
Schearer is the first person to take an animal with an electronic ignition muzzleloader, CVA’s Electra.
“What a way to start the New Year. I got to hunt with the first electronic ignition muzzleloader in history, I got to wear a new camouflage pattern, and I got to hunt with my wife,” said Schearer.
“I can’t wait to see how the rest of the year unfolds. Mossy Oak Duck Blind worked so well on the Florida wild hog hunt that I’m looking forward to using it in the duck and goose blinds this fall.”
The Electra was introduced in late December last year. It utilizes technology called Electronic ARC Ignition, which eliminates the need for 209 primers. It’s powered by a nine-volt lithium battery, which will reliably fire the gun up to 500 times.
The Electra rifle is the most radical innovation to hit the muzzleloading industry in years – the ultimate muzzleloader in terms of ease-of-use, rapid reloading, ease-of-cleaning and never-fail reliability.
Schearer wasn’t the only one to make history with the CVA Electra. His wife, Marsha, also had a successful hunt with the firearm making her the first woman to take an animal with an electronic ignition muzzleloader.
Both Schearers were wearing Mossy Oak’s new Duck Blind pattern. Although Duck Blind was designed specifically with waterfowlers in mind, it provided the necessary cover for the Schearers on their hog hunt.
“Using the new Duck Blind pattern concealed me to keep a close eye on the hog I wanted, my first hog at that.” said Marsha Schearer.
“As the hog dropped in its tracks and the smoke cleared the air I knew the CVA Electra was dead on and the hog had been electrified!”
In addition to being the editor of BG&H magazine, Schearer is co-host of Blackpowder Guns and Hunting television. He and Marsha also own and run Central Montana Outfitters.
This is a parody, right?
If I shot the first electronic ignition black powder gun, I would want everyone to know what I was wearing.
Don't taze me bro!
This is the most asinine thing I have read in a long time. Why don’t they just put a laser sight on it too.
That being said, I'm really curious about it. Oh, wait, here's the reaction in Florida. It's no longer a muzzleloader by the laws there, only permitted during normal cartridge season.
Of course, in California, you have to remove the battery entirely to make it 'unloaded' by definition of the law here.
I’m just not into black powder, though I might just to get an early deer season. I like my modern guns too much. The other thing I’m not into is camo. I’ve hunted all manner of game, small, big and birds of all makes and models. Next to breathing and sex, hunting is the next favorite thing I do. I hunted over 35 years and never camo’d up. I get a kick out of all that do.
Zero lock time...
Ya, zero lock time until the battery dies. Lock time on a real muzzleloader is measured in millaseconds.
What's next a baitcasting reel with integrated circuits to prevent birds nests?
Oh that's right, Shimano already has one.
I’m pro hunting and all that...but...this thing reads like an ‘Info-mercial’
funny picture though...;)
i heard that... I will never own anything that needs a battery to fire.
I can’t remember the SciFi author who was always stressing that a fuse will always blow just when you need that circuit the most.
Never owned a car?!
***The Electra was introduced in late December last year. It utilizes technology called Electronic ARC Ignition, which eliminates the need for 209 primers. It’s powered by a nine-volt lithium battery, which will reliably fire the gun up to 500 times. ***
How van we call it “PRIMITIVE” hunting now?
Next year they are going to make one that comes with a trained illegal, that way you don't need to get out your air conditioned and heated stand, you just let him shoot and do all the dirty work while you take picture and talk about how good you look in your camouflage. How many people out there know that animals are color blind?
I took up bow hunting for that very reason ... 6 or 7 weeks more hunting time. Turns out I enjoy bow hunting even more ... right up until that huge buck is at 50 yards and won't come in closer, then I want my gun. ;-)
Whoa!...great picture of a hog eatin’ gator...where’d you get it?...what’s the story on it?....looks like Texas brush in the background.....I’d like to e-mail it to a buddy.
I thought the idea of the blackpowder season was to get closer to your ancestors by using the same technology they had at the time. The same firearms, clothing and actually getting out and hunting your quarry down instead of sitting up next to a deer feeder.
Good example of the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law. Typically most states have a regular hunting season with rifle or shotgun depending, and a special “muzzleloader” season, sometimes early season, or late season, etc. Of course for years the only black-powder firearms available (and legal for hunting during those special seasons) were traditional flintlocks or somewhat more modern (1820s tech) percussion cap rifles of .36 or .50 cal. Then came inline or breech loading designs, totally out of character with no pretense towards traditional styling, but still meeting the legal definition of a “muzzleloader”. Sabot style rounds, scopes, etc, nothing is verboten. Maybe it is Penna. that prohibits this kind of thing, or ought to.
It’s all yours. Found it myself. Don’t know the story.
Firearm... that is.
He spotted that bar, he had every hope,
as he peeped through a four-power scope,
Not trusting his eagle eye
He would let that discarding sabot round fly,
Meat in the Crockett pot was the plan,
Bear-meat frying in the old black pan.
Grits, Greens, and plenty of gravy,
Delicious thoughts danced in Crockett's head,
He squeezed the trigger, O NO Darn battery dead!
Bar wasn't. Couldn't say the same for Davy.
You are my doppelganger, then. I have never hunted but am gearing up for my 1st pig hunt, and am surfing the interweb looking for camo clothing. It's expensive!
I, too, like my modern guns, but I've been warned that my .40 S&W and .223 rounds may just bonk off the pig's skull if I hit them at an oblique angle. I guess I'll also carry a pointed stick, just in case!
I do most of my pig hunting in hilly country and try to find myself looking down on them. Out on the flats, it's much harder to get close to them. I've never hunted them in a forrest setting.
That said, you probably don't want to get close enough to have to shoot them with the .40. The pistol is a good backup. The .223 is marginal. Pigs can be pretty tough.
When I hunt pigs, I take a rifle and a handgun. I like handgun hunting and if it's a close shot, I'll use the handgun. .357, 10mm and up are recomended.
I am currently trying to find the heavier rounds available for my caliber(s); there are a lot of them out there, and I definitely need to do my homework. For instance, of my two AR15s, one is a one-in-nine twist and the other is a one-in-eleven twist; I have been told that I should buy rounds that are optimal to those twists and not to use them in the incorrect rifle.
My hunting friends, while good ol' Texas boys, lack a lot of the common sense hunting experience that I need to obtain. They are more of a "Let's see how many empty cans we can make pop into the air while drinking as many beers as possible" type of group.
That is a small yellow flag for me.
Blasphemy! Next you'll tell me that head-to-toe camo topped with 40 square feet of blaze orange doesn't make any sense. 8^)
I do the blaze orange thingy during deer season when there’s more hunters than deer.
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