Guns International #: 101459290
Seller's Inventory #: 20298

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

SOUTHERN Antique Percussion KENTUCKY American LONG RIFLE Made Circa 1850s with Southern Hardware!

Description:
SOUTHERN Antique Percussion KENTUCKY American LONG RIFLE

Made Circa 1850s with Southern Hardware!

Here we present an antique American Full-Stock Kentucky Long Rifle, made circa the 1850s. Rifle manufacture in the mid-to-late 19th Century was rapidly changing over from thousands of craftsman 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 American Longrifle, 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 functions. The bore is in good condition. The markings on the barrel are not legible. The barrel tang extends all the way day to the comb of the stock, is thin overall, and has wide circular spots where the screws attach. The trigger guard is of iron. Minimal use of brass, as in butt plate and a small sideplate only. This is a style of rifle unique to the South!

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

Barrel is 42-3/8 inches.

Caliber: .36

Overall conditionas seen in photos.

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$1550

#20298
 

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Antique: Yes