Heym SR20
Well-Known Member
I must admit to really liking good old fashioned straight grips on find British built guns. Even though have quite large hands and long fingers I like home they look, how they carry and how they shoot.
As regards rifles, lever actions are mostly straight griped, so to are many of the older military bolt actions - moison nagants, quite a few of the mausers and even our own lee enfields were pretty much straight grips. Plenty of small rifles - rook rifles etc were made with straight grips.
But in the majority of hunting rifles we have pistol grips. Traditional stalking and big game rifles had nicely open radius swept back grips, often really quite slim and elegant.
Modern practice seems to be to have a good handful to hand onto. With palm swells, finger ledges etc etc. a lot is driven by military, tacticool styling.
But what about an elegant little single shot with a straight grip stock. Light and slim to carry. By all means scope but maximum of a 3-9x36 on a one inch tube. Could even be a slim magazine rifle with two rounds in the magazine, but would a slim and elegant little action. All up weight including scope - 6lbs or so. Not a range rifle, but the sort of rifle that is easy to carry.
Food for thought?
As regards rifles, lever actions are mostly straight griped, so to are many of the older military bolt actions - moison nagants, quite a few of the mausers and even our own lee enfields were pretty much straight grips. Plenty of small rifles - rook rifles etc were made with straight grips.
But in the majority of hunting rifles we have pistol grips. Traditional stalking and big game rifles had nicely open radius swept back grips, often really quite slim and elegant.
Modern practice seems to be to have a good handful to hand onto. With palm swells, finger ledges etc etc. a lot is driven by military, tacticool styling.
But what about an elegant little single shot with a straight grip stock. Light and slim to carry. By all means scope but maximum of a 3-9x36 on a one inch tube. Could even be a slim magazine rifle with two rounds in the magazine, but would a slim and elegant little action. All up weight including scope - 6lbs or so. Not a range rifle, but the sort of rifle that is easy to carry.
Food for thought?
