what is your favorite style of rifle?

NorthFork said:

@cositrike

That jaeger is awesome!

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Thank you

Cowboy said:

That’s pretty neat!

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Thank you Cowboy. If you look carefully, you will see that the cheek piece is on the same side as the lock, therefore for a left handed shooter. The sliding patch box is on the other side

Christian Springs and Reading Schools.

Also a percussion in the Bedford School.

cositrike said:

This is mine. A 300 year old Jaeger rifle

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Beautiful, but do you shoot this left handed? Cheek is on the lock side.

oreclan said:

Beautiful, but do you shoot this left handed? Cheek is on the lock side.

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Yes. It is for a left handed shooter. The sliding patch box is on the other side

In general terms I love the flintlock longrifle. Exact regional style is not especially important though excessive butt stock drop doesn't appeal to me. I guess that, a bit more specifically, the Lancaster (old or later style), York & Virginia types suit me very well. But something about the simple, iron mounted SMR vies for the #1 spot. I do like everything about these plain and excellent rifles, but all need to be flint.

I do like the Germanic jaegers and would dearly love to have one. Never cared much for half stocked guns but have owned and used a few. IMHO, you can't beat a gun with a wood stock starting at the butt plate and going all the way to the muzzle.

cositrike said:

This is mine. A 300 year old Jaeger rifle

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Very nice Jaeger.

it surprises me how many on here favor the southern rifle. it is also my favorite with the jaeger being a close second,,,,,,,,,,,,

with out a doubt, the SMR. simple, smooth, skinny, effective...
but then again, i'm a Bauhaus kind of fellow.

SMR.

BWE Firearms said:

Very nice Jaeger.

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Thank you

olskool said:

it surprises me how many on here favor the southern rifle. it is also my favorite with the jaeger being a close second,,,,,,,,,,,,

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I would say it’s reflective of our philosophy. You will also note a lot of favorites were the christian springs, early Lancaster/ Virginia style.
When we dress up to play we are mostly plain middling sort. You will see some upper crust sights but mostly we are farmers hunters, shop keepers the sort drawn to plain workaday things.
We want good or fine.

I've always preferred the earlier styles with their flowing lines and wide recoil absorbing buttstock. Flintlock all the way for many years now. For some reason the "Hawken" or plains style never appealed to me. Over the last decade I've developed an affinity for smoothbores although not "smooth rifles".
John

I have always been enamored with the Hawken style guns. I mean, the real Hawken style guns, not so much the T/C and traditions type Hawken pattern guns, but I do have them as well. I also have a goal of getting a smooth bore flinter someday.

I like the English Sporting Rifle style best....

All flinters!!

I still have several styles to explore however, I favor a skinny well balanced rifle, the Lancaster is fine in several fields and does play to that regard. I revert to my heritage in the SMR as the Southern rifle is comfortable in its own way and I have great favor towards it. I believe the transition of the SMR is evident in the typically larger bore Hawken seen in its earler years to the half stock big bore. I land in an improper favor to the later as I still have several styles of rifles to handle and fire to give a precise conclusion. Everything I own other than the Lancaster is of the later although and what I carry to the range.

olskool said:

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

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hawken, just really like the look and feel

The two I own.
Flint: Lancaster Issac Haines 58cal
I purchased it this past August from a local builder.

Percussion: TC Hawken 50cal
I built this from kit in mid ‘70s