Guns International #: 103011190
Seller's Inventory #: 244659

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

PIONEER Era Antique Full-Stock .38 Percussion FRONTIER Long Rifle HOMESTEAD ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Rifle Made w/CHERRY STOCK

Description:
PIONEER Era Antique Full-Stock .38 Percussion FRONTIER Long Rifle HOMESTEAD

ENGRAVED Kentucky Style Rifle Made w/CHERRY STOCK

Here we present an antique Full Stock Percussion American Long Rifle, made circa the mid-1800s. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .38 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. This rifle is one such example.

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 very good. Original patina. The action is strong; trigger must be set. The bore is reflective with sharp rifling. The stock has been refinished and remains solid. The lock is marked with a maker name that is only partially legible: “William ____dge”. The barrel tang and the top of the stock show where a rear peep sight once was.

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

Barrel is 34 ½ inches.

Caliber: .38 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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#244659
 

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Antique: Yes