I was wiping some of my ML's down today, and it really got me to thinking. Why do I keep several that I don't shoot much. I must confess to having a long ongoing love for longrifles, they are just plain good looking, especially with nice wood on them. I remember as a young lad, watching Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett, an I fell hard for them then. I shot a Southern Mountain Rifle with a 42" GM .45 caliber that a buddy built for me, and I built him a custom centerfire rifle in exchange. I shot that rifle for years, and more than double paid for it in meat I won the first year with it. About 6 years later, I shot one my buddy was having fits with, and it turned out it was too short for him. It had a 32" 1" GM barrel, and was built like a semi schutezen rifle, with no ramrod, and steel hooked buttplate. I traded him out of it, and soon found, I shot it much better than the longrifle I liked so much. I went on to go to shooting it in nearly every match, for the next 8 years, and my scores increased. Now most of the guns I shoot, have between a 30-36" long, 1" across the flats barrel, and most are of half stock design. I still have 4 Longrifles, and don't shoot them very much at all, but I hate to part with them. I could use the funds for my newest hobby which is catfishing and striper fishing here on Lake Cumberland, but just hate to sell them. I just wanted to see which type of rifle you all prefer and which you shoot the best.