Well, I brought another sorry looking front stuffer home from a Rendezvous. No pictures yet but it looks like a CVA Mountain Rifle with a 32 inch barrel in .50 caliber but doesn't have any ID except CVA on it. It has a steel trigger guard, a set trigger, four screws on the german silver patch box and a silver front sight with a different buckhorn type rear sight. The stock is the original finish which is a high gloss strange green color and has silver wedge plates for the two wedges. Unfortunately it's missing the butt plate which was probably steel also. Both the stock and cap lock are numbered 435 which is something I've never seen before. The barrel cleaned up nicely after pulling a blob of oil soaked patches and old powder out of the breach.
I'm siting on the fence on restoring it and make or buy a proper replacement butt plate or just use a different style brass one which I already have which would require me to trim some wood off the stock.
Any information on when it was built and any back ground would be helpful, it looks like an early one. It only cost a hundred bucks so I'm hoping I got a diamond in the rough. I'll get some pictures posted when I get a chance.
Thanks