Ugliest Rifle

[Handcannons]

Do you wear a wrist brace when shooting them?

No wrist brace but for some of the really severe kickers I wear wheelchair gloves that have thin pieces of gell foam over contact points. Grip shape and angle matters a lot. the .400 H&H is worse than my .416 Ruger because I can only fit 3 fingers on the .400. A .458 winchester I shoot hurts becasue of the grip shape. They are an acquired taste!

 

[typilotguy]

Now that is definetly, uh, unique.

Paul

"It has a good personality..."

 

[Handcannons]

I had a friend who hunted deer with a Thompson Contender with a 45/70 barrel. I can attest that beast was singularly uncivilized. Had I not been wearing a fedora My noggin would have required stitches.

I have a contender in 45/70. This BFR is also 45/70.

 

[Handcannons]

Recoil on either of those has to be impressive, not to mention the muzzle flash.

Muzzle flash isn't too bad but the concussion can be savage. Good hearing protection is a must!

 

[CBH Australia]

YOU WIN, EVERYONE ELSE MIGHT AS WELL STAY HOME ON THIS THREAD!!!!

I don’t like the embellishments but I’m sure they meant well when they done it

 

[CBH Australia]

Hey mate,
I don't really think it's ugly – and as far as a Tikka goes, I think it looks alright...

Is that a good or a bad thing?

I like Tikkas because they work but I do appreciate a traditional looking rifle.

Except this one, this one is Pretty.

 

[woodsrunner]

I don't have ugly rifles, so i can't post pics. Ugliest rifles for me would be the Blasers (for their lines), the Browning BLR (which looks like a child's misshapen drawing of a Winchester levergun,) the Semprio (which my eyes always read as "Semipro") for the same, anything that smacks of military combat (there was a reason our forerunners had them "sporterized" - cos they're mostly all butt-ugly, then and even more so now.) Obvious laminates (like the Ruger Guide Gun.) Also, anything plastic. Going into the field with a plastic gun is like wearing trackpants/"crocs"/old sneakers & t-shirt to your wedding. A person should have more respect, for themselves and for the field, for the game (I mean the game in the larger sense, but yes, for the quarry too) than to carry a plastic gun. I do hear that many of these arms i've mentioned function superbly and i'd certainly hope so, but i'll never get to that point of knowing.

 

[MS 9x56]

Is that a good or a bad thing?

I like Tikkas because they work but I do appreciate a traditional looking rifle.

Except this one, this one is Pretty.

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Shoots pretty groups for sure.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Marlin 1896. Oldest repeating action design with tang safety that I know of. Cycles smooth as a D-8 Cat. A shell jamming masterpiece. The added brazed plumbing pipe for replacement fixed choke is a nice touch. Marlin had a knack for designing guns that kicked like hell. Most of these clunkers were recycled into fruit cans in short order.

Correction: The button on the "tang" is actually on top of back end of receiver. It is for opening the chamber. Safety design is "widow maker" style inside the trigger guard. This shotgun actually requires two hands to cycle. No exaggeration!

 

[rdog]

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(It’s a .243 Win..)

Nothing ugly about those Rem 700 ADLs i have 2 from 1967 & 1970 a 222 REM & a 308 WIN, THE 222 shoots 5 shot groups about .75 & the 308 about 1 moa 3 shot groups, floated bbls & lighter trigger springs.

 

[Safari Dave]

Ugly girls are like mopeds.

They can be lots of fun, until one of your friends sees you with one.



(I just buy pretty rifles, that don't always shoot accurately)

 

[Badboymelvin]

Is that a good or a bad thing?

I like Tikkas because they work but I do appreciate a traditional looking rifle.

Except this one, this one is Pretty.

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I think that looks alright!
In a cool cartridge too

You know, I've never owned a Tikka, not that I think they're bad rifles, but just a few things that aren't to my personal taste, i.e., a detachable mag and the general styling...
But I've never met anyone that has said their Tikka isn't accurate, and I'm sure that if I used one for a while, it would grow on me.

Hey, when you hunted with me, your .280AI, that was a Tikka, wasn't it?

Russ

 

[CBH Australia]

I think that looks alright!
In a cool cartridge too

You know, I've never owned a Tikka, not that I think they're bad rifles, but just a few things that aren't to my personal taste, i.e., a detachable mag and the general styling...
But I've never met anyone that has said their Tikka isn't accurate, and I'm sure that if I used one for a while, it would grow on me.

Hey, when you hunted with me, your .280AI, that was a Tikka, wasn't it?

Russ

Yes, and the image is from that hunt.

It has the Carbon Fibre stock and C/F wrapped barrel.

I got a few good deals and it came together for me.

I recall your recent post about detachable magazines. There is a chance to lose them or even forget to pack them from home. In some instances on foot the solution might be a second magazine with spare ammo.

The 7x64 is for the wife and it was also a good buy so that’s where the modularity of Tikkas has worked for swapping stocks and configuring them to my taste.

I actually want to hunt with the Pink one as I like the Bell and Carlson stock. I’m not to vein to carry a pink rifle but I don’t want people to mistake it for a 6.5 Creedmoor I would never live it down.

 

[Sideshow]

I actually want to hunt with the Pink one as I like the Bell and Carlson stock. I’m not to vein to carry a pink rifle but I don’t want people to mistake it for a 6.5 Creedmoor I would never live it down.

Nar you’ll be fine just tell em “NO of course not……it’s a .243”!!

 

[rdog]

To me a Blazer R8 & the Beretta straight pull rifles are UGLY.

 

[Hedge774]

This one might offend a few, but I think the Sharps Rifle is a "Beer Goggles" gun. It looks okay if you're drunk or squinting. Then you look at a Gibbs Farquarson and you realize just how fugly a Sharps is.

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Bad:

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Much Better:
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Nobody will love you like a fat girl!!!

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Nobody will love you like a fat girl!!!

Speaking of ugly love, how to have sex with a cougar? Thumb through the wrinkles till you smell shit. Gone too far. Go back one.

Now that I'm old and single and in that age group, I wonder what jokes the young dollies are telling about me? "He better get his hands out of his pants pockets. His blood pressure can't take that much excitement."

 

[SoDak Jay]

My Rock River EOP has an incredibly stupid upper but it’s so accurate for an AR-15 I haven’t changed it.

 

[MS 9x56]

To me a Blazer R8 & the Beretta straight pull rifles are UGLY.

To me anything wearing a black plastic stock is ugly. But not as ugly as a Moisin Nagant.

 

[rdog]

To me anything wearing a black plastic stock is ugly. But not as ugly as a Moisin Nagant.

Yes the Moisin is ugly but they worked & the Lee Endfield is sort of ugly & it was the bolt action greatest battle rifle of all time . To me the FN sporter M98 of the 1960s, WIN 70, Rem 700 & even the Weatherby mk5
are what rifles should look like