Who's shooting the oldest rifle......

[Sim G]

Pic way too big!

[snayperskaya]

Very nice collection you have there Sim

Keep the oldies coming chaps.......

[strangesam]

My oldest is a 1952 No4 Mk2.. I'm not even close..

Some beautiful bits of craftmanship and history in this thread though.

[FredB]

Every body else is showing breech loaders so heres one of mine; Mauser 71/84 dated 1888.
Fred

[channel12]

Snider Enfield dated 1867
Photos are all on my other laptop.

My oldest file is an Enfield Pattern 1853 dated 1862 but it's not on ticket.

[@nd]

I regularly shoot my pattern 1853 enfield also have a 1809 Baker and a Brunswick rifles both shootable, they are all in storage due to a house move. once the Corvid-19 lockdown allowed me to move i hope to get them to the range.
Not the oldest as a its a replica but i have a Rifle Shoppe kit of a 1770's Ferguson Rifle i hope to build when i move.

[AL8]

used to shoot an Enfield P53 made in 1855, until I sold it

[dodgyrog]

Very nice ukrifleman, you're in the lead so far as dodgyrog isn't shooting his Remington.....yet

1892 is the date to beat......Anyone got a 1891-dated Mosin???

I'm converting the 50/70 brass now and the boolit mould is on order from the USA
Not long to wait BUT nowhere to shoot at the moment!

[snayperskaya]

Anyone shooting a .43 Berdan/10.75x58R Berdan II rifle???

[ovenpaa]

We have a Danish Model 1848 dated 1861 Snider (Rimfire) here that I have machined dummy 'Brass' for, now I need to do the same with primers to start testing the rifle with. Again, a suitable range I can lawfully shoot on would help right now. Maybe something to finish over the next few weeks.