Favorite Style/School/Make/Ignition (and/or) Brand of long gun

[The Ghost]

It has to be East Tenn, style. My .54 Rock Rifle has a 44" swamped Rice radial cut barrel. Will get a picture although I never get a good gun picture com out.

[Dogshirt]

I've just always loved the look and feel of the Hawken/Mtn/Plains rifles. In my mind that IS a muzzle loader!
Really love the feel of my GPR. But that half-stock I got from Mongrel is real sweet too!

[forrest]

      Early before they partnerd Hawken, fullstock, Most looked like big bore Kentucky's, big bore to take larger game and, to defend ageinst Grizzly

[Hanshi]

Tough decision but here she be.  TVM E. Lancaster .45, nice wood but ultra plain, otherwise.

[BruceB]

I'm a Penn Longrifle guy, and prefer the Bucks County school. Here is my latest atttempt (unfinished).I am currently putting a patchbox on it.
It's a 40 caliber 42" B weight Colerain. It's gonna be my woodswalk gun along with a hunting gun.

[mongrel]

I like the lines and heft of early rifles, and when I participated in the reenactment aspect of things my persona hailed from about 1770, give or take a few years to either side of that precise date. Both eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia rifles of that period appeal to me, but if I had to name a favorite it'd be a late Christian's Spring, PA pattern. At this point in time both the early Lehigh Valley and Lancaster schools were in the process of evolving from the Christian's Spring products, with the work of Christian Oerter being a sort of prototype of the Lehighs and the rifles built by the master who trained him, Andreas Albrecht/Albright, being unmistakably the influence for the Lancasters. I love Lancasters so the straight-butted Albrecht-styled guns would have to be my favorites. Shown is one in progress that sometime in this life I hope to complete and hunt deer with.

[wattlebuster]

My favorite style is Isaac Haines, I made 2 from Jim Chambers kits 1 flint an 1 percussion an Im in the process of building myself a 40 also. Im going to have Don Bruton build me a 58 cal early virginia with hand forged steel furniture this coming spring an I hope to have it by deer season next year.

[Otter]

Remington/Zouave. My first big bore and I just like it.

Well the old Sears and Roebuck Zouave is off to another home. It is time to change time periods. Still like that cannon though.

[Candle Snuffer]

I'm a Dickert fan, though I do have a soft spot for the plains rifle's.

[West Texan]

I like the looks of Lancaster co. Long rifles, and my TC "Hawken" which isn't, but I like it.

[singletree45]

One of the first rifles that I had was a T.C. Hawken. Was a pretty good rifle and I fires it more than 1000 times and won a few matches with it. It wasn't a very good copy of a true Hawken. I couldn't afford a custom made Hawken at the time so I decided to build one of my own. It took almost a year to find all of the acceptable parts and build the rifle. The rifle parts include Long lock and triggers, Sharon Barrel, Cherry Corners trigger guard and misc. hardware. I also have owened a few underhammers too. I only have one at the moment. It is a Challenger in 58 cal, I belive they they were made in Maine. It has a 1 1/8 inch half round half oct. barrel that is 32inch long. It dose have a pretty good recoil but sure does hit with a punch. I have a .31 cal barrel for a H&A rifle and am looking for an action for it.
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[mtnmike]

Mine has to be this Traditions PA

[mtnmike]

Sorry for the long link   just trying to learn this thing


                                                                       Mike

[beowulf]

have to say I have a fondness for all of them ! favorites though would be pa rifles , bean style mountain rifles , and underhammers ! I`ve owned or fired just about everything out there from the rather frightening to use handgonne ,to the unmentionable rifles of today  . and most if not all do the job they are designed to do ! it all comes down to personal likes and dislikes ! I figure ,to each his own !

[Hank12]

My prettiest guns are guns that I seldom shoot but use just to show them off.  My favorite is "Sweet Pea" a .50 cal. smooth rifle that I built a couple of yrs. ago. It's almost as accurate as a rifle and I've won shoots shooting against rifles and my longest shot on a rockchuck with a muzzleloader (147 yds.)was with this gun, it's also deadly with shot.  Hank