EAGLE ENGRAVED Patchbox FLINTLOCK LONG RIFLE Smoothbore .56 Caliber Antique Kentucky Style AMERICAN LONG RIFLE

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EAGLE ENGRAVED Patchbox FLINTLOCK LONG RIFLE Smoothbore .56 Caliber Antique

Kentucky Style AMERICAN LONG RIFLE

Here we present an antique Eagle Engraved Flintlock Smoothbore 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 medium to large sized game on the frontier to include deer and elk, and likely a few squirrels and rabbits 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 good. Original patina. The action has good spring tension but does not hold the cock notches at present. The lock is likely an old replacement. The stock is in good shape overall with some repairs around the portion surrounding the lock.

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Barrel is 41-3/4 inches.

Caliber: .56 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2300
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