Antique FLINTLOCK LONG RIFLE PIONEER HOMESTEAD .36 Striped Maple Stock KY Kentucky Long Rifle with J. COOPER LOCKPLATE

Product Description

Antique FLINTLOCK LONG RIFLE PIONEER HOMESTEAD .36 Striped Maple Stock KY 

Kentucky Long Rifle with J. COOPER LOCKPLATE

Here we present an antique Flintlock Long Rifle, made circa the early-19^th 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.”

The overall condition is very good. Excellent action: the lock will spark. Very nice bore with good rifling; the vent has been sleeved to repair the wear and make it smaller again. Great striped maple stock. There is a bit of a split under the muzzle in the ramrod channel and some repairs along the right side of the forestock. A fantastic piece of American history!

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

Barrel is 36-1/4 inches.

Caliber: .36 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

Very Fast. Very Safe. FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Delivered directly to your door by express mail!

Guaranteed AUTHENTIC & Includes CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY.

www.ancestryguns.com

$2900
#230023