Lets see your favorite rifle!

[Three Hawks]

Here's some pic's of my favorite rifle, the one that gets shot.






Some day I'll get pics of the entire gun.

Three Hawks

[txcookie]

I think I've probably posted a photo of this rifle a time or two.  This is my go to rifle when deer hunting.  For a low dollar rifle it's very accurate, with patched ball or conical.

Iron wood thats the best lookin CVA I ever seen!

[Ironwood]

Thanks txcookie.  I really like the rifle.  It has a 28" 1-48" barrel and shoots both patched balls and REAL bullets very well. 

[Bear Medicine]

My favorite rifle is the one posted on my intro pic.  It's a Tradition's Shenandoah .50 flint.  My first rifle was a kit-built Hawken.  It was a good shooter but weighed a ton.  I've done some modification on the Shenandoah; stripped off the plastic finish, refinished it with Walnut Danish Oil, replaced the front sight.  It's a great shooter for an "off the rack" gun.

[lemallen]

My favorite all time rifle is the tried and true TC Hawken caplock in 50 cal. It was my first and I still shoot it very often

[Bear Medicine]

Here's a pic of my Shenandoah. 

[voyageur1688]

No Pics yet.
My favorite? Cant choose which ones my favorite. I love em all, from my wall hanger early CVA Hawken, CVA Kentucky I inherited when my brother died which he had built from a kit, Dikar Pennsylvania Rifle, Traditions Trapper flintlock, Numrich Swivel Breech, Jim Chambers  Isaac Haines Kit I'm slowly working on, or my "Ole Mystery musket" (or is it a shotgun?)--Its an authentic flintlock from sometime back around 1800 and aint shootable but I love it just the same even though I have no idea what it actually is when it was made or who made it, or how it ended up in the rough condition it is in.
Just too hard ta choose.   When I go hunting or target shooting at a vous, I take either the Trapper flintlock, Dikar Pennsylvania, or CVA Kentucky.
Voy

[graybear]

As with voyageur1688, I don't have one particular favorite. Whichever one I take out of the cabinet that day is my favorite. I've got a 36 cap CVA, a 45 flint kentucky style that I've been told by 3 different BP shop owners is an old Pedersoli w/a GM bbl ( I don't know or care. It fits right and shoots good.) a 50 flint kentucky style by Armsport, a 50flint PA pellet by CVA (loaded only w/loose black) and an old CVA flint 50 that I fixed so that I can also shoot it as a caplock . One of these days I'm going to start working on a 54 CVA big bore kit that I bought off of feebay a few years back My wife has a 32 deerslayer by traditions and a CVA 50 bobcat cap. Plus 1 pistol, 2 revolvers 1 dbl bbl caplock shotgun, and a 69 Charleville replica w/bayonet (now that's a longarm) that I haven' had time to try yet. How do you pick a favorite out of that melange?

[Red Badger]

Graybear the answer is Carefully......

I only have one rifle and one pistol so I do not have any problem pickin which is my favorite.... Now to get some more money and git some more BP's is the challenge....

[graybear]

 JamminJim; The trick to accumulating that number is an understanding wife who's is willing to buy some of them for you. my wife and I have wish lists that we give to each other for Christmas, birthdays, etc. I don't get a new gun every time but over 23 years , she has bought me my CVA squirrel rifle, a 45 cal. kentucky caplock kit, a .36 cal steel frame 1851 Navy replica, a .44 cal. steel frame fluted cylinder 1858 Remington replica, and a Pedersoli dbl. bbl. caplock 12 ga., some accoutrements and has agreed to most of my desired purchases. She buys new , the only new I bought new was the PA Pellet rifle. Oh yeah, and the Pedersoli 1874 Sharps. She said," You've wanted one for a long time, so get it." I think I've got a keeper. I don't get everything I want but I get an awful lot.

[Da Backwoodsman]

My no. 1 would have to be "Lucy J. Bullthrower" she is a 80's cva kentucky rifle kit, of all my funs I love her the most as she is the more constant in my hunting memories. The second rifle is a 70's flint kit that didnt have a name on the box but she shoots true and that lovely lady is named "Irene". Third in the line is Gracie becuase she is the nicest looking rifle I have she is Cva .50 along with the 2 over her, the rifle on bottom is a .36 caliber and we call her "Morticia" she is single handily responsible for a large depletion of the southern virginia squirrel population and on average holds more kills than all of the others combined, hence the morbid name. However with the recent addition of a great black lab I believe Morticia will also add a couple dozen Turkeys to her growing list of coup.

[Red Badger]

JamminJim; The trick to accumulating that number is an understanding wife who's is willing to buy some of them for you. my wife and I have wish lists that we give to each other for Christmas, birthdays, etc. I don't get a new gun every time but over 23 years , she has bought me my CVA squirrel rifle, a 45 cal. kentucky caplock kit, a .36 cal steel frame 1851 Navy replica, a .44 cal. steel frame fluted cylinder 1858 Remington replica, and a Pedersoli dbl. bbl. caplock 12 ga., some accoutrements and has agreed to most of my desired purchases. She buys new , the only new I bought new was the PA Pellet rifle. Oh yeah, and the Pedersoli 1874 Sharps. She said," You've wanted one for a long time, so get it." I think I've got a keeper. I don't get everything I want but I get an awful lot.

How do you think I got my pistol?   

I saw the pistol and put a couple of bucks down on it... went home and told her what I'd done and she reaches into her cookiejar nd hands me the rest of the money and say "So go get it already, just rememeber thats part o' your Christmas and Birthday present"

My wife (Bulldoglady) is definatly a keeper...

[n5lyc]

yea, mine too.
when we got married she bought me a Norinco semi auto UZI as a wedding gift.

My grooms cake was a smiley face with a bleeding bullet hole between the eyes.

if i can find the photo albums i will upload picts.

[Hanshi]

   Hmmm, this is like picking your favorite child.  I don't have any pictures as I'm technically dysfunctional.

deer hunting> a lightweight TVM .45 Lancaster with 36" barrel.
small game/varmints/target>either a .40 Lancaster with 38" swamped barrel or a tiny .36 Southern Mountain rifle with 38" barrel.  ALL are flint locks!

[sluefox]

Pathfinder,

That is a good looking combination of your .40 cal smooyhbore and bag!
On your measure of 1 1/2 of mix shot, is that #5&#6? What is your max range with shot on bushytails?