Welcome to cvaguncases.com.
This web site contains information on more than 50 documented products liability / personal injury claims that allege defects in Dikar / BPI / CVA / New Frontier / DC 1980 products. There are currently 3 known cases that are pending in state or federal court that involve the alleged explosive failures of Dikar / BPI muzzleloaders and there are several more cases that have not yet been filed.
More than one-third of the cases found on this webiste DO NOT involve recalled 1995 or 1996 CVA muzzleloaders. Many of the cases found on this website DO involve newer CVA muzzleloaders including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008 model CVA in-line or side lock muzzleloaders.
In all but two of the claims that have been found to date the parties chose to settle the cases before allowing the evidence to be presented to a jury, therefore, there is little or no documentation, other than the information found on cvaguncases, that is available to prove, or disprove, the allegations made in the Complaints or the Answers to the Complaints. The visitors to cvaguncases.com must reach their own conclusion as to why the parties chose to settle a particular case instead of presenting it to a jury. None of the parties to a lawsuit can be forced to settle the lawsuit. Every party to a lawsuit always has the right to have their day in court. Settlements must be agreed to by the parties or they do not happen. Settlement amounts will not be posted on this web site because in some instances the settlement language prohibits disclosing this information and in several instances the victims have asked that this information not be made public on this web site.
This web site continues to receive inquiries and emails from owners of CVA / New Frontier muzzleloaders requesting advice as to what to do with the Dikar manufactured muzzleloaders that they are now afraid to shoot after having reviewed the information available on cvaguncases.com. The best answer to these inquiries: contact Dudley McGarity at BPI and request a refund. Otherwise, if you own a muzzleloader that you are afraid to shoot you may want to render it inoperable and hang it on the wall for decoration. You may also want to include in your inquiry to Mr. McGarity a question about the proof mark on your Dikar manufactured muzzleloader, such as, "What does the proof mark stamped on the barrel of my muzzleloader symbolize?" or, "Why is there a proof mark stamped on the barrel of my CVA or New Frontier muzzleloader if it was never proof fired?". Your inquiries should be in writing and you should save copies of your inquiry. If you receive a response to your inquiry you should save a printed copy of that as well.
This web site is a work in progress. Please let us know of any problems, duplicate content, etc. by leaving a message on the Contact and Comments page. Comments and contact information are forwarded to a private mailbox and they are not posted or maintained on cvaguncases.com. All comments are considered to be personal and private. Your personal information and your comments will not be posted.
All of the documents found on this web site are in pdf or Word document format and the photographs are in jpeg format. Please feel free to open and download any file found on cvaguncases.com. All files and images have been scanned for viruses before being uploaded for posting, but we make no guarantees so if in doubt you should scan for viruses after downloading and before opening any file.
Our research for additional information about Dikar / BPI accessory and muzzleloader failures is ongoing and the content of this web site will be updated as new information is received and as time allows.
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CVA RECALL!!
The crawl above contains CVA's recall as it appeared in the 2009 CVA catalog. I have posted it here in the interest of public safety and at the request of BPI President Dudley McGarity. The recall information did not appear on the CVA web site for several months in early 2009, possibly even longer than that. However, it appeared again, although not displayed prominently, during the week of April 5, 2009, after BPI was made aware that cvaguncases.com was about to launch. Mr. McGarity's explanation, which I can not disprove, for not posting the recall information for several months, was that the information did not transfer over when they made the switch from the old web site to the new web site. Odd that no one at BPI or CVA did not notice something as important as the omission of the recall information for several months. After the recall information was once again posted it was not prominently displayed as it was on the old website, even though several thousand of the recalled guns are still unaccounted for. The recall information is still not prominently displayed on the CVA web site and it is no longer listed at all on the CVA "FAQ" page where it once was the Number 1 FAQ. The recall information is now hidden behind the "Company" and the "Resources" buttons on the CVA web site and it does not appear on the Blackpowder Products, Inc. web site at all. You will find several different versions of the recall notice on the pages of cvaguncases.com.
Thank you for your response to my request for assisting me in locating recalled 1995 and 1996 CVA muzzleloaders. As a result of cvaguncases.com prominent display of the CVA recall we have been successful in getting several of the 1995 and 1996 recalled CVA's out of the hands of unsuspecting and potential victims of defective CVA muzzleloaders. I no longer need additional 1995 or 1996 recalled CVA in-line muzzleloaders. In the future please contact BPI / CVA regarding any 1995 or 1996 recalled muzzleloader that you wish to dispose of. I have been advised that BPI / CVA is slow to respond to inquiries about the recalled muzzleloaders, which is how I was able to obtain one of the recalled muzzleloaders that I now have, so be patient and persistent.
If you are an attorney representing a client in a claim involving a recalled 1995 or 1996 CVA in-line muzzleloader and you are in need of a new unfired 1995 or 1996 exemplar recalled CVA for evidentiary use in your case please forward your request and case information to me by using the Contacts and Comments page.
Dean Wise
cvaguncases.com
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