Guns International #: 100906246
Seller's Inventory #: 10493

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

Antique Half Stock American Plains Rifle

Description:

Antique Half Stock American Plains Rifle

With Part Octagon Part Round Barrel

Here we present an antique Half Stock Percussion Rifle, made circa 1840.

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.”

This .35 caliber rifle features a part-octagonal, part-round barrel. The lock and hammer are modestly engraved. The wrist has an old repair, in which two sheets of brass were fastened on either side of the wrist. Barrel has been refinished. The bore is rifled and clean. The action is strong.

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

Barrel is 28-1/2 inches in length.

Caliber: .35

Overall condition as seen in photos.     

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$800

#10493

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Antique: Yes