What historical rifle would you most like to shoot?

[Whitworth]

Be interesting to see if those old lawmen ( and criminals like billy the kid, Joaquin murieta, etc) guns were particularly slick or just ordinary. I’d guess if it’s your hide on the line you might go the expense of having your pistol smoothed up a bit.

My guess they were pretty slick to begin with since those pistols would have been hand fitted during assembly. Then again maybe they were rough as a cob

 

[Dale Lilly]

Dale, come up this next fall and i will rope up an elk for you! not literally of course but we could find one! have 3 empty bedrooms and a bag of oatmeal!

the rifle i would like to shoot was on Lexington green on April 19 1775 in the hands of my wife's ancestor.
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Oooooh! I would love that but I am 91 and have little stamina. My hunting days are gone. It is also a long trip from here to there. However, I appreciate the offer more than you know, Polecat

 

[deerstalkert]

Oooooh! I would love that but I am 91 and have little stamina. My hunting days are gone. It is also a long trip from here to there. However, I appreciate the offer more than you know, Polecat

actually Dale, if you did come up , i would probably kidnap you and hold you until you had taught me all you know!
you have a few years on me, but i have mostly stopped hunting too. what i do, i do from the seat of a quad. set up on a trail in ambush and if successful i send out a sos to my younger friends, then sit back and watch them do all the hard stuff.

 

[HighUintas]

I would like to shoot George Washington's rifle made by J P Beck (Beck Flintlocks) and the supposed William Ashley Hawken rifle.

 

[Brokennock]

the rifle i would like to shoot was on Lexington green on April 19 1775 in the hands of my wife's ancestor

A rifle at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775????!
Hmmmmm.......

 

[Brokennock]

Well, some folks have mentioned modern guns,,, I guess if we are going there I'd like to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle to see if I can make it do tricks too......

If sticking with muzzleloaders I'd like to shoot the rifle used in Audubon's description of loading a rifle for a hunt,,, and I'd like to load it from the same pouch with the same supplies as our woodsman used in the description. I think a lot could be learned from this.

 

[deerstalkert]

A rifle at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775????!
Hmmmmm.......

A Revolution in Arms features nearly forty weapons of the Revolution—British, French, American, Spanish, Hessian and Scottish armaments drawn largely from the Institute’s collections—as well as accoutrements and tools used to fire and maintain the weapons, and documents that provide context for how these arms were acquired, transported, altered and used. Highlights of the show include examples of the iconic British “Brown Bess” and French Charleville muskets that dominated the battlefields, a Pennsylvania long rifle like those used by Continental Army rifle companies, a Hessian dragoon pistol captured at the Battle of Bennington in 1777, and an elegant American officer’s cuttoe featuring a silver-and-ivory hilt and dog-head pommel made by New York cutler John Bailey. The exhibition also features two important American-made muskets produced at manufactories in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, on loan from the Fredericksburg Area Museum, and several arms from the collection of James L. Kochan, including an extremely rare French Model 1717 rampart musket that was transported to America between 1776 and 1780 and modified at the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, for use by Continental troops.

 

[SDSmlf]

I have shot original Brown Besses, Jaegers and ‘Kentucky’ rifles, but not a J&S Hawken. That said, would probably most likely want to shoot a rifle most, if not all of us have seen shot. Fess Parker’s (aka Daniel Boone) rifle from the Daniel Boone TV series. And yes, I know it’s a prop gun made from a modified Trap Door. But that would be the rifle to shoot. There weren’t many made, but we all saw it being shot.

 

[2 shots]

jed clampets rifle...wanna find me some oil . p.s. does anyone know anything about that gun?

 

[Bushfire]

Hands down Jim Corbett's 275 Rigby he shot several man eaters with. You can hold that gun if you visit London, but they get funny about firing shots in the shop.

Muzzleloader, jeez...I guess I'd sit in that tree at Saratoga and say "hey Murph, can I have a shot at Fraser first".

 

[david w]

jed clampets rifle...wanna find me some oil . p.s. does anyone know anything about that gun?

No, other than it's a southern mountain rifle. The best look is when Jed enters the cabin, but the camera shot didn't seem to focus, at least for me.

 

[BillKilgore]

I would like to shoot an original Jacob Dickert rifle. It would be thrilling to hold a tangible piece of history from the Revolution.

 

[Brokennock]

A Revolution in Arms features nearly forty weapons of the Revolution—British, French, American, Spanish, Hessian and Scottish armaments drawn largely from the Institute’s collections—as well as accoutrements and tools used to fire and maintain the weapons, and documents that provide context for how these arms were acquired, transported, altered and used. Highlights of the show include examples of the iconic British “Brown Bess” and French Charleville muskets that dominated the battlefields, a Pennsylvania long rifle like those used by Continental Army rifle companies, a Hessian dragoon pistol captured at the Battle of Bennington in 1777, and an elegant American officer’s cuttoe featuring a silver-and-ivory hilt and dog-head pommel made by New York cutler John Bailey. The exhibition also features two important American-made muskets produced at manufactories in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, on loan from the Fredericksburg Area Museum, and several arms from the collection of James L. Kochan, including an extremely rare French Model 1717 rampart musket that was transported to America between 1776 and 1780 and modified at the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, for use by Continental troops.

So?
Does the book you reference list a rifle that was used at Lexington and Concord on April 19th 1775?
I'm confused as to what your reply has to do with the quoted statement from me.

It is all good information though.

 

[1971fx]

How about a turkey shoot with some old neighbors

 

[andy52]

How so?

Wetzel killed a lot of natives and many for no real reason other than his hatred of them.

 

[tak]

I’d like to shoot the rifle my great, great, great, great, great grandfather carried while serving with the 8th Continental line of the Pennsylvania Regulars during the Revolutionary War. If not that that rifle, the rifle my great grandfather used to kill the hogs on the farm in Ohio.

 

[Trooper]

FN C1A1 7.62 mm NATO… again. This was my rifle in basic training 1974 right up to the adoption of the 5.56 M 16 type rifle in 1982. I sure miss that FN…

 

[sportster73hp]

An original first model Brown Bess followed by an original Baker. Have repro of both now.
As for African safari guns I purchased a Remington 798 in 375 H&H. Taken many white tails but no elephants.

 

[ML Hunter]

Jack Hinson's 50 caliber sniper rifle.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...hUKEwi24KX96rr9AhUgQjABHeDoDBQQMygIegUIARC2AQ

 

[sportster73hp]

Jack Hinson's 50 caliber sniper rifle.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...hUKEwi24KX96rr9AhUgQjABHeDoDBQQMygIegUIARC2AQ

Good choice !