Guns International #: 103511661
Seller's Inventory #: 260021

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

MID-1800s Antique Full-Stock .49 Percussion American HOMESTEAD Long Rifle ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Set Trigger HUNTING Longarm

Description:
MID-1800s Antique Full-Stock .49 Percussion American HOMESTEAD Long Rifle 

ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Set Trigger HUNTING Longarm

Here Ancestry Guns presents an antique Engraved Full Stock Percussion Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .36 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.”

Brown patina. The hammer only seats in the half cock position. Dark bore with serviceable rifling. The barrel pulls away from the forend. The stock is solid with average wear, chipping and loose slivers. A trigger guard screw is absent. This example has various replacement screws and parts. Replaced/repaired front sights.

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

Barrel is 35 inches.

Caliber: .49 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1150

#260021
 

SOLD

Antique: Yes