Which rifle do we crown as the best looking ever?

11 lbs for a .450-400?

At 12lbs scoped, this wouldn’t be the funnest gun to carry all day in the bush, but it would be the mildest recoiling dangerous game double ever made. With 15-3/8” LOP it would fit a giant man that hates recoil. (I’m one of those, but I don’t need such a gun at the moment)
 
The Lee enfild rifles are quite something pretty to me, and the Winchester 1895, and the rotary rounds. All of these rifles would be very nice to own
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The best looking stock rifle imho has to be a Mannlicher Schonauer stutzen.
They just ooze quality.

I admit to some biase.

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I still don't know .. Double or Magazine?
 
Gibbs 256 Magnum Mannlicher from My Dad picked up in London in the mid-50s. Birds Eye maple
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M1903 1906 vintage by Charles Lancaster, original case..
 
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More Charles Lancaster..
 
I'm still on the fence .. Double or Magazine?
There may be no answer, just curious individual consensus.
 

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