what is your favorite style of rifle?

[olskool]

what is your favorite school or style of rifle? and why,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Doc Ivory]

For the past few, it's been the Northwest Trade gun in the Barnett pattern.
The Wilson is a close second

 

[Cruzatte]

what is your favorite school or style of rifle? and why,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Lancaster, because of its symmetry.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Kinda fell into the school. I took function over form. I told the ladies at Muzzle Loader Supply the caliber, and balance point, and weight. They have a wondrous attic, where everything hides, you just have to ask.

This may be the very piece that was copied, mine looks just like it, Scary.

Original

Mr Sheetz

Amazing man

 

[tnlonghunter]

At the moment, it's probably the Woodbury style; specifically the ones with more of a Pennsylvania/Virginia/early southern style stock design. Not just Herschel House's work, but also some of the stuff put out by Steve Davis, Ian Pratt, and Lowell Haarer. I know they're not necessarily HC, but man do I love how they look.

 

[TreeMan]

All of them!!!

 

[Art Caputo]

My favorite style rifle are those of the early colonial designs from the pre/revolutionary period. The appearance and feel of these rifles appeal to me. The John Shreit rifle, 1761(below) is a good example. My 58 cal Kibler Colonial fits this style well for me.

 

[oldwood]

So many choices , so little time..... Lehigh ........Why a favorite? Twenty years ago , my stock shaper was permitted to copy a dozen or so original Pa. rifles from a friend's collection. Immediately , the copy of an old , plain Lehigh barn gun , fit me so good , had to make one right away. Love the classic Roman nose , and the slim lines of the forearm. So many makers to choose from w/limitless variations of parts. ..........oldwood

 

[tenngun]

An SMR for me is the most beautiful of American guns, I find my TFC the most comfortable to shoot. Lancasters just have such romance and balance gracefulness along with the Virginia that seems like Lancasters little brothe, you just have to love’em Dutch club butts just make you want to pick one up.
That’s not considering a Bess for martial elegance.
Oh my
I am but a butterfly draw from flower to flower.

 

[Daryl Crawford]

How about more than one. I like Berks County rifles for the inlay and engraving, but Schimmel Guns from the Lehigh region are so simple, plain and nice. I appreciate a New England fowling piece for its lightness and butt shape, not to mention the versatility. I like SMR for the same reason as Schimmels, but those buttstocks are so cool. Shooting cross body is pretty neat.

 

[Old Timer 48]

Early Lancaster or early Virginia.

 

[Bearkiller]

Southern Mountain Rifle cause that's what I just bought! Love the simplicity and lines.

 

[michael mcghee]

Isaac
Haines

 

[JL]

I'm with Oldwood on this. I'm attempting a Rupp.

 

[JohnnieT]

I prefer the halfstock rifles during the time when popular preference was changing from flintlock to percussion.

My favorite would be the Harper’s Ferry rifles.

 

[Carbon 6]

Long, my favorite style is long.

 

[Dale Lilly]

Plains rifles... history of the westward expansion from the great plains to the Rocky Mountains. I matured [well somewhat] in Colorado and Idaho hunting and fishing those same mountains that drew the Mountain men and gave us heroes who could lead the 'explorers' and immigrants to all the American West. If I lived in the East I would probably see it a little differently. Polecat

 

[Josephg]

Lancaster when flint, Hawken when percussion.

 

[Eutycus]

Hawken but not exclusively

 

[kje54]

Pretty much almost any full stock flinter, not a Hawken fan. Bucks County flinters are probably my favorite.