Guns International #: 102668362
Seller's Inventory #: 226486

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Flintlock

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Flintlock

Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock .46 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE HOMESTEAD Tool w/J&W ASTON Lock

Description:
Antique EARLY 1800s Full-Stock .46 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE  

HOMESTEAD Tool w/J&W ASTON Lock

Here we present an antique Full Stock 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 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. The action is not presently functional and the cock is unmoving from the position shown in the photos. This rifle has been reconverted to flintlock. The bore is dim and rifling worn nearly smooth. The stock is solid. The patchbox door has been worked on but does not latch closed. This one has a long and heavy octagonal barrel in .46 caliber. There is a silver thumb plate for initials and a crescent moon of German silver on the left side of the butt stock.

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

Barrel is 44-1/4 inches.

Caliber: .46 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1875

#226486
 

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Antique: Yes