Guns International #: 101704446
Seller's Inventory #: 210153

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

EARLY 1800s Antique Full-Stock .34 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle!

Description:
EARLY 1800s Antique Full-Stock .34 Caliber FLINTLOCK American LONG RIFLE  

Kentucky Style HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Long Rifle!

Here we present an antique Full-Stock American Long Rifle, made circa the early-19th Century. Pennsylvania and Kentucky rifles were the order of the day and were essential tools for providing meat for the table, pest control for the crops and livestock, and protection against beast and man for the homestead. Rifles in this caliber were used for taking small to medium sized game on the frontier to include squirrels and rabbits, and likely deer and elk too! Frontiersmen, homesteaders, pioneers, trappers and traders would have used a rifle like this for all of the above.

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.”

This one features double set triggers and a long and slender profile. The right side of the butt stock has a simple divot for grease. The butt plate and trigger guard are of brass.
The overall condition is good. This one has been re-converted to flintlock. Strong action. Good bore. The full stock is solid throughout. This example contains a barrel tang replacement screw. Here is a classic American rifle for the collection!

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

Barrel is 46 inches.

Caliber: .34 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1685

#210153
 

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Antique: Yes