Guns International #: 101625780
Seller's Inventory #: 201490

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

Antique MID-19th CENTURY Full-Stock .54 Cal. Percussion American LONG RIFLE Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle!

Description:
Antique MID-19th CENTURY Full-Stock .54 Cal. Percussion American LONG RIFLE

Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle!

Here we present an antique Full-Stock Percussion Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .54 caliber, large enough to take medium to large 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 good. The action is mobile but the hammer will not stay cocked on its own for more than a few seconds. The bore is in good shape. The front ramrod tube is loose and the cracks in the stock express slight movement. The barrel appears to be marked “H.PI” and “UNION” with most of the lettering obfuscated. The lock and hammer are lightly engraved. This would be a good rifle for above the mantle!

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

Barrel is 39-1/2 inches.

Caliber: .54 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1065

#201490
 

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Antique: Yes