Favorite Style

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Muzzleloaders are like ladys. so many beautiful ones to behold. All have their particular appeal, style and virtues. Enjoy them all. I am enjoying my Lancaster lady.

 

If it has a rock lock I like them.
I was at Jim Chambers and held a York that he made and I must say it is the sweetest piece I have ever held. What ellegeance and balance.

 

[AeroncaTAL]

Southern Mountain. Right now I have a hankerin for a Gillespie...
Scott

 

[wyatt243]

Style is realitively unimportant but it must have a full stock!!!!! :thumbsup:

 

[dry ball john]

:hmm: In response to Undertaker, I'm quite suprised that any one would pick just one as a favorite.Every rifle that I own has it's own purpose and I like them all.

 

[romcneil]

It is hard to choose; I like them all. If I had to choose, for a rifle I favor early heavy long rifles: wooden patch boxes, larger bores, such as my early Lancaster rifle. On smooth bores, I like the Northwest Trade Guns. If I were to go to a cap gun, I like the good copies of the half stock Hawken.

Bob

 

[GreyWhiskers]

My tastes have changed a bit over the years. I've always liked the looks of a half-stock hawken rifle. I used to not care for longrifles with a lot of brass ornamentation but now I'm fond of Lancaster style rifles with carvings and engraved patchbox. GW

 

[Roy]

My most recent one :grin: or the one that I'm shootin at the time :haha: :hmm: ofcourse there is that first model Bess that Mr. Brooks made that I borrow from time to time... I can't decide!!!!

Whats yours??

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Right now I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hooked on flint smoothbores :thumbsup: that I don't want to look at another MZL, specially is she has any rifling in it !

This former Schuetzen shooter finds the flint smoothies to be the epitome of offhand single shot firearm shootin' !

 

[hawkeye1755]

Whats yours??

Tja, Roy my favorite style. :hmm:
What i really didn't like is the Club Butt Fowler and the Hudson Valley Fowler.I dislike the butt.
Otherwise, I can't decide!!Virginia,Bucks,Tvlle :hmm:
Sometimes i think they are like women.
I take what i can get :shocked2: :redface:
:hatsoff:

 

[Stophel]

Lehigh rifles, of course, along with guns of the "Allemaengel" eastern Berks county/Kutztown area. :winking: That "Ottho" gun that EK did an article on recently in MB is just the most coolest, awesomest gun ever! :grin:

 

[CrackStock]

I agree with 41Aeronca that the slender simplicity of the Southern mountain is my favorite.

CS

 

[Ridge]

I love the Berks County guns above all others. My second choice would be the English fowlers.

 

[Slamfire]

English Sporting Rifles. I'll probably have enough money to get one, right after my life insurance policy pays off. :shake:

 

[oldarmy]

late lancasters and southern tenns.
As long as they have full stocks and rocklocks

 

[hawkeye1755]

Oh, i forget.I didn't like the mule ear lock :nono:
and i prefer the flintlock over the percussion. :winking:
:hatsoff:

 

[colmoultrie]

It's the Bucks county for me, as far as rifles go. For smoothbores, I like the Tulle, or the early English trade guns that attempted to copy the Tulle. flintlocks are generally beter-looking than pecussion pieces, although I've seen individual exceptions to that rule.

Now broaden it out - how about pistols? I find I tend to like the late 18th century or early 19th century British flintlocks the best: Nock, Manton, Wogden, or Rigby (although he's technically Irish). Many of the long-barrelled Kentucy pistols seem slightly unbalanced to my eye. If you disagree, lend me one (or two) for a few years, and I'll do my best to get used to it... :v

 

[Johnny Tremain]

D) All of the Above

 

[KHickam]

Colonial Fowler

 

[CrackStock]

I didn't like the mule ear lock

I have to disagree here. The mule ear is not a thing of beauty when compared to some locks, but it represents innovation. I admire its utility in that it avoids the silly drum and nipple arrangement. I will build one eventually, if for no other reason than that admiration of the utility.

CS