Guns International #: 103181295
Seller's Inventory #: 250205

Category - Antique Rifles - Flintlock - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

Category
Antique Rifles - Flintlock
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

ENGRAVED Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock FLINTLOCK Long Rifle HOMESTEAD “MILLER” Signed AMERICAN HUNTING/PIONEER Long Rifle

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ENGRAVED Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock FLINTLOCK Long Rifle HOMESTEAD

“MILLER” Signed AMERICAN HUNTING/PIONEER Long Rifle

Here we present an antique Engraved Miller Signed Full Stock American Flintlock Long Rifle with a J. Bishop Warranted Lock, 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 medium to large sized game on the frontier to include deer and elk, and likely a few squirrels and rabbits 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 fine. Plum patina on the original finish. The stock is solid and shows minor wear for its age. The action is strong with a functioning set trigger. The bore is dark with visible rifling. Faint hand inscription on the barrel. Legible markings on the lock.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 46 inches.

Caliber: .50 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1800

#250205
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,800.00
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