NRA Publications held its annual Golden Bullseye awards breakfast on Friday, May 14 at the NRA Convention in Charlotte, NC. At this event, the CVA APEX was recognized as the 2009 winner in the Best Muzzleloader category. The CVA APEX is a break-action platform that will accept a wide variety of barrels — including muzzleloader, center-fire, and rim-fire, and in a total of 14 different calibers. All APEX models feature the premium quality Bergara Barrels™ as standard equipment.
Scott Olmstead, Editor in Chief of American Hunter magazine, presented the award, stating that once the NRA staff began the testing of the gun and had “picked it up, and pointed it, then shot it – and finally hunted with it – we realized that CVA created something that is more than the mere sum of its parts. With its straight buttstock and trim, rubberized fore-end, it points more like a Ruger No. 1 rather than a clunky single-shot of old.” He concluded by stating that “the APEX is versatile, functional, accurate and affordable, but to fully appreciate it, you’ll have to pick one up for yourself.”
Accepting for CVA was Dudley McGarity, the CEO of Blackpowder Products, Inc., owner of the CVA brand. McGarity gave credit to his company’s product development team that designed and built the APEX. Later, he stated that “the APEX is the flagship model of our new gun line, which was fully unveiled at the 2010 SHOT Show.” Asked how he expected these new guns to perform this year, he stated that he has “every expectation that this line-up of new and innovative models will dominate the muzzleloading gun market in 2010, simply because, at every price-point, they are the best guns out there.”