Guns International #: 103361812
Seller's Inventory #: 250704

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

HEAVY OCTAGONAL BARREL LONG RIFLE by S Smith .44 Caliber Antique Full Stock SIGNED Kentucky Style HUNTING|HOMESTEAD Longarm

Description:
HEAVY OCTAGONAL BARREL LONG RIFLE by S Smith .44 Caliber Antique Full Stock

SIGNED Kentucky Style HUNTING|HOMESTEAD Longarm

Here we present an antique S. Smith Signed Long Rifle, made circa the mid-1800s. Its stout, heavy octagonal barrel is in .44 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.

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. Patina throughout. The lock has been replaced and the function is intermittent. The bore is strongly rifled and in good condition. The stock has some stable cracks on the underside of the butt stock, under the patchbox.

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

Barrel is ? inches.

Caliber: .44 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1500

#250704
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,500.00
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