Guns International #: 101845681
Seller's Inventory #: 215293

Category - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850 - Kentucky Rifles

Category
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850
Kentucky Rifles

Antique MID-19th CENTURY .32 Caliber American LONG RIFLE Maple Half-Stock Kentucky Type Rifle with GOLCHER Lock!

Description:
Antique MID-19th CENTURY .32 Caliber American LONG RIFLE Maple Half-Stock 
Kentucky Type Rifle with GOLCHER Lock!
Here we present an antique Half-Stock Percussion Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .32 caliber, large enough to take small to medium sized game or to defend the homestead against unwanted aggression. Rifle manufacture in the mid-to-late 19th Century was rapidly changing over from thousands of craftsmen all over the United States and on the Frontier making and selling their wares, to the large factories with standardized assembly lines and modern manufacturing techniques. Many makers’ names of the so-called Kentucky long rifles have been lost over time. This rifle is one such example.
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. Strong action. Double set triggers require setting to fire. The bore is dim with strong rifling. Wonderful maple striped stock (stable crack around on the lock screw and from bottom of lock to trigger). “JOSEPH GOLCHER” engraved lock. A very attractive rifle fit for the American Frontier!
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 36 inches.
Caliber: .32 Percussion
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$1695
#215293
 

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Antique: Yes