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I’ve viewed threads where folks post pictures of custom guns such as Chambers, Kibler, Brooks, Martin, etc. Those are cool and I enjoy viewing them. However, I didn’t find or haven’t seen any recent threads with pictures of favorite production guns. Maybe there were and I missed them. Anyway, I thought I would start one. Pictured below are my three.

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From left to right: .62 caliber flintlock Fusil de Chasse from Loyalist Arms (probably made in India).

Traditions Kentucky .50 caliber percussion

Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber percussion

*note: This thread was started for entertainment (and possibly education) purposes only. It was not meant to start debate or bickering or to sow discord among the members.😃*
 
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I’ve viewed threads where folks post pictures of custom guns such as Chambers, Kibler, Brooks, Martin, etc. Those are cool and I enjoy viewing them. However, I didn’t find or haven’t seen any recent threads with pictures of favorite production guns. Maybe there were and I missed them. Anyway, I thought I would start one. Pictured below are my three.

View attachment 94877View attachment 94878From left to right: .62 caliber flintlock Fusil de Chasse from Loyalist Arms (probably made in India).

Traditions Kentucky .50 caliber percussion

Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber

*note: This thread was started for entertainment (and possibly education) purposes only. It was not meant to start debate or bickering or to sow discord among the members.😃*

I do really like Fusils, very adaptable to any hunting situation.
 
I've got two Pedersolis, a Frontier .32 and a Kentucky .45, along with TC Hawken .50 I built from a kit. All three are of good quality and get the job done.

I'd love to have a Kibler or Brooks, but they are dream guns at this point.
 
I like the Pedersoli's for production guns. I have a Rocky Mountain Hawken, a Deluxe Tryon, and a Pensylvania Rifle. Can't complain about by Browning Mountain Rifle or my Lyman Great Plains rifle. Some very good production guns were made in the 70's and 80's, too bad the production of traditional side locks has dwindled to a very few companies.
 
My favorite is the CVA Hawken big bore percussion rifle from late 70s-early 80s
I had one about the same time as you mentioned it was well built and accurate. I let a friend buy it from me. He pestered me so much that I relented and sold it to him. I regreted it ever since.
 
I'll keep it to three long guns.
1. Lyman GPR flint, 50 caliber
2. T/C Renegade, percussion, with a Green Mountain 50 caliber drop in barrel and a bored out 20 gauge smooth bore (surprisingly accurate with a .600 patched round ball)
3. Traditions Crockett rifle in 32. More accurate than I would have expected. Wish they made it in a flint version.

If I included hand guns it would be the Euroarms Rogers and Spencer and the Ruger Old Army.

Jeff
 
I have six rifles produced in factories, different manufacturers. I think my favorite is the TC Seneca in .36cal. Ease of loading, handling, cleaning.
 
Austin Halleck plains rifle .50, Santa Fe Hawken .54, Lyman Great Plains rifle .54. :dunno: I have 15 bp rifles. All but one are production but several are my builds from kits. By Thursday I will probably have three different rifles as my favorites. I have been at it many years and I have enjoyed every black powder rifle I have owned, each for a different reason. Polecat
 
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