Favorite style strictly from a shooting standpoint?

[taterbug]

just looking for some opinions, and not to offend any folks out there.  If this needs to be somewhere else, or if it needs to be removed, Im ok with that too. 

I know this will have many particulars, but what style long rifle is your favorite to shoot?  And why?

Looking for things like how the rifle (or smoothbore) fits you and your shooting style, and whether you're hunting, plinking, woods walking, punching paper?  If you're strictly bench competition, thats ok too, but many are those are more than a bit specialized. 

I'm just collecting parts to make something that will be a bit of a mongrel, only because of how i believe it will fit me, and what I plan on doing with it.  it will only be for me, and realize Ill probably be stuck with it forever, unless I sell parts off it! 

Thanks folks!

[Kurt]

For my particular requirements, I would like a shotgun butt, a good cheek weld, and a barrel light enough to do a bit of off-hand shooting. One in 36, 54, and 20 gauge. No more than 7 pounds. Flintlocks. The crescent butts evoke a frontier look and look great, but I'm unable to shoot comfortably with them.

[Daryl]

The Edward Marshal rifle is one of the best handling long rifles in my opinion & and in .54 cal.
This for hunting or rendezvous.
I shot Gary Mummary's .54 Edward Marshal rifle many years ago and it still impresses me as to it's handling. I would rate it best of the American flinters, but a Jaeger Flinter would tie or beat it slightly. An 1850 era English Sporting rifle is tops. But a capper.
.535"ball & from 85gr.2F to 110gr.2F for target(whatever the rifle likes best and for hunting "this" part of the country, likely 110gr.2F to 140gr.2F which will likely be it's best accuracy load for moose, elk and griz if necessary.

[Bob Roller]

I liked my Len Meadows long rifle and it had a crescent butt plate but for shooting the English stock styles are better for me.If I live another 100 years I will never understand the drop in some of these long rifles and some looked like they had to be cut from a plank that was 16" wide or more.
Bob Roller

[MuskratMike]

I like a barn gun in the North Carolina style. I would want it with a medium weight barrel of medium length in 40 caliber. double set triggers would be a plus but a single trigger would to it polished and tuned for fast reliable performance. As for the lock I love the late Ketland lock.

[Prairie dog shooter]

I shoot off hand and hunt.  I prefer a Lancaster rifle and an English fowler smoothbore.  Those just fit me best.   

[alacran]

The rifle I am most comfortable with is whatever rifle I shoot most often. Lately It is a .58 Jaeger with a 37-inch Edward Marshal profile Rice barrel.
It weighs 9.25 pounds and has a single trigger.

[okawbow]

I shoot mostly offhand. I like my .30 cal, 42” barrel Soddy Daisy and 44” swamped barrel bench copy Bedford County.50 cal. They weigh 6 and 6 1/2 pounds and at 71 I can still hold them steady and shoot accurately. I win many 25, 50, and woods walks with them. I like the longer barrels because I can still see the sights. They both have lots of drop and curved butt plates that rest on my upper arm, not my shoulder.

[Bill in Md]

okawbow.....that Bedford is stunning!

[reddogge]

This style buttplate on the .36 I built 2 years ago really fits me nice. It's not as deeply hooked like a lot of mountain rifles.

[Waksupi]

Whatever else it has, it needs a swamped barrel.

[Scott Bumpus]

The best solution is to have one of each style!  Lol

[Nazgul]

Of all the rifles I own the GRRW Hawken in .54 fits me the best. When I first picked it up the sights were immediately in line and focused. It just fits.

The Colonial and Woodsrunner fit well also, the Hawken just a little better.

I have copied the dimensions to another stock for an English Sporting type I am building.

Don

[Top Jaw]

A more triangular stock shape without excessive drop at comb or heel - as in the Early Lancaster or Early Virginia profiles.  And prefer a wider, rounded heel buttplate.  Those stock shapes seem to fit me the best when naturally mounting a rifle for hunting or offhand shooting.  2” wide with an almost flat to very slight curved BP.  (My old iron mounted Early Virginia is pictured as an example of this straight comb triangular shaped profile).

[Marvin S]

Favorite for shooting and looking at for me is the Chambers version Issac Haines. Vey little drop to stock, 38” swamped bbl, flat rear sight, wide comfortable butt plate, lite weight, good single trigger. Handles and points like a rifle should.

[adkmountainken]

poor boy/barn gun no butt plate.  fits y shoulder well.

[Daryl]

This one is my favourite.
It's 2 inch wide butt plate helps with this rifle's recoil.