Guns International #: 103194871
Seller's Inventory #: 250527

Category - Antique Rifles - Flintlock - Kentucky Rifles

Category
Antique Rifles - Flintlock
Kentucky Rifles

Guns International #: 103194871
Seller's Inventory #: 250527

Category - Antique Rifles - Flintlock - Kentucky Rifles

Category
Antique Rifles - Flintlock
Kentucky Rifles

Antique “POOR BOY” Full-Stock .38 FLINTLOCK American FRONTIER Long Rifle ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Smoothbore HOMESTEAD Rifle

Description:
Antique “POOR BOY” Full-Stock .38 FLINTLOCK American FRONTIER Long Rifle 

ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Smoothbore HOMESTEAD Rifle

Here we present an antique “Poor Boy” Full Stock Flintlock Smoothbore Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century. For generations, terms like “Squirrel Rifle”, “Barn Gun”, or “Poor Boy” were used when referring to a plain, inexpensive, home grown working tool. This style of rifle could have possibly been made entirely by hand, using hand-operated tooling done in a frontier setting. There were strong pockets of recorded long rifle manufacture and use throughout the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and the Carolinas.

Its stout octagonal barrel is in .38 caliber, large enough to take small to medium sized game, including high flying waterfowl, 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 overall condition is good. Strong action. This example shows signs of being a modern re-conversion/conversion. The bore is in good shape and has retained some shimmer with nice rifling. Maple striped stock. The wood is good with less than average handing wear. Brown patina on most metal parts.

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

Barrel is 43-3/4 inches.

Caliber: .38 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

Very Fast. Very Safe. FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Delivered directly to your door by express mail!

Guaranteed AUTHENTIC & Includes CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY.

ancestryguns

$1500

#250527
 

SOLD

Antique: Yes

Antique “POOR BOY” Full-Stock .38 FLINTLOCK American FRONTIER Long Rifle ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Smoothbore HOMESTEAD Rifle

Description:
Antique “POOR BOY” Full-Stock .38 FLINTLOCK American FRONTIER Long Rifle 

ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Smoothbore HOMESTEAD Rifle

Here we present an antique “Poor Boy” Full Stock Flintlock Smoothbore Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century. For generations, terms like “Squirrel Rifle”, “Barn Gun”, or “Poor Boy” were used when referring to a plain, inexpensive, home grown working tool. This style of rifle could have possibly been made entirely by hand, using hand-operated tooling done in a frontier setting. There were strong pockets of recorded long rifle manufacture and use throughout the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and the Carolinas.

Its stout octagonal barrel is in .38 caliber, large enough to take small to medium sized game, including high flying waterfowl, 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 overall condition is good. Strong action. This example shows signs of being a modern re-conversion/conversion. The bore is in good shape and has retained some shimmer with nice rifling. Maple striped stock. The wood is good with less than average handing wear. Brown patina on most metal parts.

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

Barrel is 43-3/4 inches.

Caliber: .38 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

Very Fast. Very Safe. FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Delivered directly to your door by express mail!

Guaranteed AUTHENTIC & Includes CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY.

ancestryguns

$1500

#250527
 

SOLD

Antique: Yes