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<blockquote data-quote="owlman" data-source="post: 1699976" data-attributes="member: 51592"><p>My son and I each bought a Paramount and had two of the first production guns out. We had a problem right off the bat the with the guns but Camaran, the customer service rep at BPI Outdoors, was great in dealing with us. The issue we ran into was the primer would fail to fire on the first pull of the trigger. If you cycled the bolt and tried again it would fire that time. We sent pictures and then they asked if we could ship one of the guns back for them to inspect. They found out the priming guide they sent with the first guns was off a few thousands of an inch so the primer wasn't getting fully seated in the Variflame adapter. The first strike of the firing pin seated the primer and the second strike would ignite it. The turn around was extremely fast on them inspecting the gun and returning it with a new priming guide for both of us. They then sent out the guide to anyone who had purchased a gun with the wrong guide as I received another one not long after that. We also received a new bolt nose spring that was heavier and helped seal the Variflame adapter better in the breech plug. I have included a picture of one of the adapters after having used it a few times and you can see that there is no fouling from blowback on it at all.</p><p></p><p>The load we are using is as follows:</p><p></p><p> Powerbelt 280 grain ELR</p><p> 105 grains by weight of Blackhorn 209</p><p> CCI No. 200 Large rifle primers (Which CVA recommends)</p><p></p><p> This gave an average muzzle velocity of 2313 fps with an ES of 10 fps. Tried CCI No. </p><p> 250 Magnum large rifle primers and muzzle velocity averaged 2425 fps but ES went </p><p> up to 50 fps so will be sticking with the Large rifle primers for now.</p><p></p><p>After several shooting sessions we started to question the BC of the Powerbelt 280 grain ELR which is listed at .452 in the brochure included with the bullets. We emailed our findings to BPI and they said that indeed was a mistake on their part and the correct BC should be .366. We found that .333 was probably closer to what we were seeing but that's probably nit picking. Accuracy has been impressive so far with a few 2'' groups at 400 yards in perfect shooting conditions and 3'' groups in average conditions. The trigger on both of our guns is excellent so I haven't considered changing it. The recoil of the gun is quite manageable due to its weight so I don't foresee adding a brake. I would be open to a breech plug upgrade if and when Luke comes out with something. Until then I'm happy with the system it has and will be taking the gun to Utah to hunt elk in a few weeks.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]146894[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]146895[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="owlman, post: 1699976, member: 51592"] My son and I each bought a Paramount and had two of the first production guns out. We had a problem right off the bat the with the guns but Camaran, the customer service rep at BPI Outdoors, was great in dealing with us. The issue we ran into was the primer would fail to fire on the first pull of the trigger. If you cycled the bolt and tried again it would fire that time. We sent pictures and then they asked if we could ship one of the guns back for them to inspect. They found out the priming guide they sent with the first guns was off a few thousands of an inch so the primer wasn't getting fully seated in the Variflame adapter. The first strike of the firing pin seated the primer and the second strike would ignite it. The turn around was extremely fast on them inspecting the gun and returning it with a new priming guide for both of us. They then sent out the guide to anyone who had purchased a gun with the wrong guide as I received another one not long after that. We also received a new bolt nose spring that was heavier and helped seal the Variflame adapter better in the breech plug. I have included a picture of one of the adapters after having used it a few times and you can see that there is no fouling from blowback on it at all. The load we are using is as follows: Powerbelt 280 grain ELR 105 grains by weight of Blackhorn 209 CCI No. 200 Large rifle primers (Which CVA recommends) This gave an average muzzle velocity of 2313 fps with an ES of 10 fps. Tried CCI No. 250 Magnum large rifle primers and muzzle velocity averaged 2425 fps but ES went up to 50 fps so will be sticking with the Large rifle primers for now. After several shooting sessions we started to question the BC of the Powerbelt 280 grain ELR which is listed at .452 in the brochure included with the bullets. We emailed our findings to BPI and they said that indeed was a mistake on their part and the correct BC should be .366. We found that .333 was probably closer to what we were seeing but that's probably nit picking. Accuracy has been impressive so far with a few 2'' groups at 400 yards in perfect shooting conditions and 3'' groups in average conditions. The trigger on both of our guns is excellent so I haven't considered changing it. The recoil of the gun is quite manageable due to its weight so I don't foresee adding a brake. I would be open to a breech plug upgrade if and when Luke comes out with something. Until then I'm happy with the system it has and will be taking the gun to Utah to hunt elk in a few weeks. [ATTACH=full]146894[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]146895[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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