I prefer stainless for its anti-corrosion properties, not its looks. I’ve taken plenty of wary animals at close range with silvery stainless steel-finished guns, but if I really preferred shiny colors in the woods I’d wear a tinsel scarf. Most significant about the new MR’s design are its aluminum receiver that shaves weight and its baked-on, dun-colored WeatherGuard finish. When locked there is no accuracy-robbing wiggle between barrel, stock and receiver. When pulled down with the trigger finger, this under lever releases its bite on an angular steel lug that’s welded to the barrel. The MR’s action opens and locks via its pivoting trigger guard.

Additionally because its barrel is its action, the rifle can be made shorter overall while retaining adequate barrel length. Muzzleloaders need to be primed and cleaned from the breech end, and a break-open action facilitates this by making the breech end easily accessible as the barrel tilts open from the receiver. I sat for hours and hours and even still-hunted with the MR and so I got to know it intimately by the time my week-long hunt ended.īreak-action muzzleloaders completely dominate the market nowadays because they make sense. Iowa Trophy Whitetail Outfitters is known for monster free-range bucks in the late season when cold weather forces deer to concentrate on food sources. Last fall I took it to Iowa for a whitetail hunt with fellow outdoor writer/photographer Judd Cooney. But even exclusively as a muzzleloader it retains the great balance, feel, accuracy and other features that have made the Apex a big seller and proven game taker. Although it most closely resembles the company’s popular Apex line, it was placed in the Accura line because it is not a switch-barrel rifle like the Apex. That’s because it only weighs 6 pounds, 3 ounces and measures 40 inches long with its 25-inch fluted Bergara barrel.

50-caliber, break-open muzzleloader that’s delightful to carry and to wield in a tree.

Connecticut Valley Arms’ Accura Mountain Rifle (MR) is a.

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