Best looking/most unique hunting Rifle?

[Mudduck]

So what is the best looking or most unique hunting rifle you have handled?

For me the most recent heart stopper was a Steyr Mannlicher Classic Blue 270
I was in at Sails Sporting goods and looked at this rifle in a 270. Priced around $2500. Action is coated with a Blue black shiny coating and Steyr Mannlicher engraved in gold on the side of the action. The rifle is a gem to hold, bolt is smoother then sliding down a runway of butter
This gun is an amazing work of art and feels great to handle.Im in love ... I think

Website is http://www.steyrarms.com/products/hunting-rifles/custom-shop/classic-blue/

 

[Dogleg]

I've got the stainless version in 25-06. It is the probably the most accurate factory rifle I have ever owned. Funny looking thing though.

 

[Mudduck]

True - It is a bit different looking. It took me a bit to get used to the bolt while playing with it at the store. My problem is Im not certain I would want to take it hunting - far to nice a gun to drag through the bush

I've got the stainless version in 25-06. It is the probably the most accurate factory rifle I have ever owned. Funny looking thing though.

 

[jjohnwm]

To my eye, the Ruger #1 is the most beautiful, classiest item available as a standard production rifle sold at a working man's price. Not the most practical, not the most accurate, and actually one of the worst offenders in terms of felt recoil, but I still love'em.

I have a Steyr as well, the Scout model. Awesome shooter, very practical, great do-everything gun...and, as Dogleg pointed out, one weird-looking puppy.

 

[tjhaile]

The modern Steyr-Mannlicher rifles don't do anything for me. The old Mannlicher-Schoenauers are nifty, though.

 

[Demonical]

Best looking rifle, would be one of the old, 1870-1900 era Winchesters. Take your pick, M1876, M1886, M1895, M1894. SRC, 28" hexoganol barrel, cresent shaped butt plate...

Next best, or maybe it's a tie, would be one of the fine old English double rifles; Holland & Holland, John Rigby, Westley-Richards, James Purdy etc...

That Steyr in the OP doesn't do anything for me.

 

[aaron v]

I'd have to go with the full stocked CZ in 6.5 55. To me its a work of art.

 

[bellero]

Look no further, they're all in this thread:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=584354

 

[brybenn]

Chapuis arms safari challenger classic take down in 9.3x62. Would of had it if that deep pocketed jackass wasn't so deep pocketed.

But as to most interesting in the double gun journal there's an add in there that has a 3 barrel rifle and all 3 barrels are on the same plane. I don't know what it is but it was awesome

 

[dgradinaru]

Here is my all time favorite.

Mauser M98 Magnum " The Big Five "


It would have to be in the 8x68S Cal.

I would love to own one, but i never will unless i win the lottery.

http://www.mauser.com/M-98-Meister-br-nbsp.500.0.html?&L=1

 

[jeff270]

The most unique that I actually handled
Jeff Coopers "sweetheart"
The actual .378 Wby used in Weatherby's catalogue
A 300 newton rifle that I should have bought
Over under bolt action elephant rifle.
I missed seeing by one day Bill Jordans Champlin .338KT

 

[gunrunner100]

I applaud the OP's choice. I have 4 Steyrs- 2 fullstocks, 2 half-stocks. Accurate rifles all.

 

[Mudduck]

Something about the look of their barrels - that rippled twist - I could not take my eyes off it

I applaud the OP's choice. I have 4 Steyrs- 2 fullstocks, 2 half-stocks. Accurate rifles all.

 

[Boomer]

The nicest looking production rifle IMHO is the Ruger #1 Tropical. Beyond that I've handled some very nice custom bolt action rifles based on square bridge Mausers, M-70s, and Brnos that were true works of art, but few that I had an overwhelming desire to own, it seems I have more of a meat and potatoes taste. There is something about a British double rifle that is appealing to the eye, but I found I wasn't a fan when it came to carrying and shooting them. The nicest looking rifle I own right now is one I found on the EE after a 35 year search, my Unique Dioptra .22 rimfire . . .

Pic from the EE

Butt stock detail

 

[a j cave]

A H&H SxS in 375 flanged. Well engraved and very fast to move. The owner went to the hospital and passed. That gun and many others disappeared from his home!

 

[Duffy]

Form or function.

I liked the look of this as soon as I saw it.

I have always liked the look and feel of a Win. 70 Featherweight.
A Ruger number one with nice wood is not hard to look at.

Just like women there are a few "plain jane" rifles and a few down right "dogs" But there are a whole lot of really attractive ones.

I think the scope really ruins the look of this rifle.

Working cloths and sporterized.

 

[209jones]

Old Stevens 44-1/2's , Ballards, 1885's, Hepburns, especially in the Schuetzen versions.

 

[dead meat]

I can appreciate any good bolt action rifle with a nicely figured walnut stock. To many good ones out there to really fall in love with one specific rifle, maybe this makes me a gun slut. If it does i will lower my head and forge on from one to another.

 

[Gunslinger]

Brno ZKM611 .22mag, it's like pointing a stick , searched for 3-4 years before finding one, spare mags are just as hard to find.

 

[Rickyy101]

and in the land before bolt actions, the 1885 was king