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Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock .36 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle
Guns International #: 102178481 Seller's Inventory #: 226479
Category: Antique Rifles - Flintlock - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: Credit Card, Certified Check, Money Order
Description:
Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock .36 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE
Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle
Here we present an antique Full Stock Kentucky Style American Flintlock Long Rifle, made circa the early-19th Century. Pennsylvania and Kentucky rifles were the order of the day and were essential tools for providing meat for the table, pest control for the crops and livestock, and protection against beast and man for the homestead. Rifles in this caliber were used for taking small to medium sized game on the frontier to include squirrels and rabbits, and likely deer and elk too! Frontiersmen, homesteaders, pioneers, trappers and traders would have used a rifle like this for all of the above.
The American Long Rifle, more commonly, but less correctly, known as the ‘Kentucky rifle’, was described by Captain John G. W. Dillin in the dedication to his seminal 1924 book, The Kentucky Rifle:
“From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent; and ultimately freed our country of foreign domination. Light in weight; graceful in line; economical in consumption of powder and lead; fatally precise; distinctly American; it sprang into immediate popularity; and for a hundred years was a model often slightly varied but never radically changed.”
The overall condition is good. Original patina. The action is strong. The trigger has been repaired and the cock has been replaced. The bore is untouched and quite scaley and oxidized. The stock has been repaired at about the midpoint of the forestock and overall has been refinished long ago.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 39 inches.
Caliber: .34 Flintlock
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$1300
#226479
SOLD
Antique: Yes