Guns International #: 103193503
Seller's Inventory #: 250636

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

Category
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850
Antique Rifles - Flintlock

SOUTHERN Antique FLINTLOCK Early 1800s Full-Stock HOMESTEAD .42 Long Rifle Kentucky Style AMERICAN PIONEER Long Rifle with PATCHBOX

Description:
SOUTHERN Antique FLINTLOCK Early 1800s Full-Stock HOMESTEAD .42 Long Rifle

Kentucky Style AMERICAN PIONEER Long Rifle with PATCHBOX

Here we present an antique Southern 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 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 near fine. Original dark brown patina. The stock is in good shape with a repair at the barrel tang and some grain splitting at the barrel wedges. The action is robust. The bore is dark with serviceable rifling. The patchbox does not fully latch.

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

Barrel is 43-3/8 inches.

Caliber: .42 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1750

#250636
 

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Antique: Yes