I like them with American influence. Some of the German Schuetzen stuff is so complicated with the humped stocks and extra pieces of steel hanging off in different places, I just can't find the beauty I do in a good old Sharps or Browning 78.
I have a couple original buffalo rifles sent to Montana in the 1870's, and a few others from Shiloh and an original carbine in 50-70.
This one was worked over in A. D. McAusland in Miles City Montana in the 1880's...
This one was customized by Walter Cooper in Bozeman in the late 1870's...