Been waiting a long time to pick up an optima pistol.At u boxing I’m impressed either way the quality of CVAs product. Will have to add when I shoot it …

I was impressed with this pistol, so I placed a Loupold 2X scope and 3 rings to secure it to the supplied Picatinny rail. Make sure to remove the base, clean out the scope base holes with alcohol, and reinstall with some locktite. Two of these were not really that tight. I took it to the range and used the Harvester green sabots that let you shoot the .429 (44 Mag) bullets. I am using the Hornady 240-grain XTP 44 mag bullet. Started with a 50-grain load of Pyrodex by volume and slowly eased up my 80-grain-by-volume Pyrodex. I found this load to be very accurate and fairly easy for me to handle the recoil. 50 yards this load will cloverleaf the shots. At 100 yards with the 2X scope, I was able to shoot consistent 3"-4" groups all day. I found this 80-grain load of Pyrodex with the 240 gr bullet feels like a .44 magnum revolver recoil. I did find that I needed to swab the barrel with a little bore cleaner every 5 shots to make the loading easy with this powder and bullet combo. The loading after multiple shots (7 shots-plus). When dirty the bullet is tough to push down starting about 1" above the chamber area but if you just swab it with a bore cleaner every 5 shots the saboted bullet will slide super easily to the top of the powder. I will be using this for deer hunting out to about 75-80 yards. I feel very confident with this pistol and would recommend it for target shooting or hunting. It is super easy to maneuver in a popup blind or tree stand. Lots of fun to shoot and super accurate.

It shoots 1.5 moa groups at 50 yds with a red dot, 100gr and 270gr powerboats off a bipod. Great, lightweight product for 100yds or less. Excellent trigger!

Absolutely love it! Great trigger and barrel, and easy to break down and clean. Quite a bit of muzzle rise, but more manageable recoil than expected. So much fun to shoot, and with a scope mounted, it is more accurate than I could ever be. Highly recommend, for both hunting and target shooting!

Nice shooting gun rt out of the box added a scope dead on at 50 yard little nose heavy