Antique HEAVY BARREL Full-Stock .48 Caliber Percussion American LONG RIFLE HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Rifle w/BIDDLE & CO. Lock

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Antique HEAVY BARREL Full-Stock .48 Caliber Percussion American LONG RIFLE

HUNTING/HOMESTEAD Rifle w/BIDDLE & CO. Lock

Here we present an antique Full Stock Heavy Barrel Percussion American Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19^th Century. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .48 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 19^th 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 bore is in good shape, has dimmed, and is nicely rifled with deep grooves. The action does not function, as the hammer will not remain in the cock position. Legible markings. Nice brown patina. The stock is solid with a few thin cracks around the lock.

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

Barrel is 32-1/2 inches.

Caliber:  .48 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2000
#227793