Favorite make of rifle

[roundball]

Whats your favorite brand of inexpensive rifle? Not custom made...even if you made it cheaply. If you have more then one favorite then say which they are.
Ned

I didn't see any way to actually "vote" for the benefit of the poll numbers, but my answer is Thompson Center Flintlocks, with the new redesigned improved locks on all of them...all are Hawkens with T/C or GM barrels, both rifles and smoothbores.

Would I like to experience a nice Issaic Haines...sure...but $$ being what it is I'd have to sell off a few Hawkens to do that and at age 63 I'm not sure if I want to start down a whole new road...have the whole T/C Hawken system of things going very well...parts are interchangeable, they all work perfectly, etc, etc,....guess I better stick.

[Dryball]

5 Dogs Creek...a range about 35 miles south of Porterville, maybe about the same north of Bakersfield.

Ned

[kit_carson]

5 Dogs Creek...a range about 35 miles south of Porterville, maybe about the same north of Bakersfield.

Ned

nuts! thats tomorrow! woulda been nice.

[Dryball]

Nope, it's this Sunday. Come on up....you can show us how to shoot. Really, would like to have you.

TG

[shooter63]

I voted for T/C and Cva, I have both and they are good shooters. I have a Investarms 54 cal but haven't had a chance to shoot it yet.

[kit_carson]

Nope, it's this Sunday. Come on up....you can show us how to shoot. Really, would like to have you.

TG

let me know with more warning on the next one, and i'll try! got family obligations this week end!

[Dryball]

Okay..this group is the 2nd Sunday of every month and your invited to shoot with us any time.

Ned

[Spitunia]

Well you sorta made me think about what constitutes a favorite. For some reason the one I grab for is a $75 CVA. Cheaply made, a nothing special trigger pull, kinda short. Lapped the barrel real fine and ground the crown. And with card wads under a Lee REAL with black lube (lanolin mixed with graphite) it's just about as good a whacker as any 50-70 ever was...except the sight radius. And you can't go jacking up the charges and pretending it's a 50-110 or something.

[pathfinder]

I voted Pedersoli because I used to shoot their Brown Bess untill I built one from The Rifle Shoppe[back when they would actually be able to get ya stuff in less than a year!]. It was a fine gun.

[BossHoss]

I don't see a vote for the Pedersoli David.

Ned

I'v a feelin i wud have voted Pedersoli if i owned or even ever shot one but i went with Lyman cause i do own & shoot one & its the best of any i ever shot 

[Roaring Bull]

I don't see a vote for the Pedersoli David.

Ned

We might aughta get together and let ya shoot my Pedersoli flinter.....

I'v a feelin i wud have voted Pedersoli if i owned or even ever shot one but i went with Lyman cause i do own & shoot one & its the best of any i ever shot 

[Renegade]

I own 3 T/C rifles All three are excellent shooters. I have a 50 cal. Renegade, 50 cal. Hawken cougar, and a 54 cal hawken. my favorite is my Renegade.

[Swampman]

Lyman  makes the best looking cheap rifle.  Thompson Center  makes the best quality cheap rifle.  Pedersoli doesn't make cheap rifles.

Other than the Made in USA CVA Mountain Rifle or a Traditions Crockett, I wouldn't own a Spanish made gun.

[kit_carson]

Lyman  makes the best looking cheap rifle.  Thompson Center  makes the best quality cheap rifle. 

um,,,,,,,,,,your not gonna like this at all, T/C barrels, locks, and triggers, are made by invest arms the same people that make lyman. so, if lyman is the best looking, you just compared it to itself, so its the best quality also.

[Swampman]

T/Cs are made in the USA and always have been.  Invest Arms is an Italian company and always has been.