The Pennsylvania rifle, Kentucky rifle, and Tennessee or hog rifle were all variants of the long rifle. For UK sales NO licence is required! The flintlock action, with its spring mechanism, and single-action trigger, though, was often purchased in bulk by gunsmiths from England, and then fabricated with skill into an elaborate rifle. Every musket, rifle, display machine gun, machine gun parts set or gun sold by IMA, Inc is engineered to be inoperable according to guidelines provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF). Charleville 1728 replica Musket . The Baker rifle (officially known as the Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle) was a flintlock rifle used by the rifle regiments of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Our Price: $1,195.00 Compare. In 1719, Robert and his son Caleb petitioned Jacob Taylor, the Penns’ Provincial Secretary, to build a shop and mill for “boaring” gun barrels. A document describing the history of Meylin, the Gunshop, and archeology of the shop is available online from Millersville University. (A rule of thumb used by some gunsmiths was to make the rifle no longer than the height of a customer’s chin because of the necessity of seeing the muzzle while loading.) The war against Revolutionary France resulted in the employment of new tactics, and the British Army responded, albei… Martin Meylin’s (Mylin’s) Gunshop was built in 1719, and it is here that the Mennonite gunsmith of Swiss-German heritage crafted some the earliest, and possibly the first, Pennsylvania Rifles. British soldiers of the time were equipped with smooth bore muskets that forced them to get close to a large group of enemy soldiers and "volley" into the crowd, hoping to … Furthermore, it was the first British military firearm to be rifled. The move to the New Rifle Shoppe took longer than expected, involving thousands of parts, pieces and several tons of machinery. Click on the area of interest and a new list will be displayed. Although early locks were nearly always imported, in later years, the domestic manufacturing of locks arose in America among the most skilled gunsmiths. Kentucky Rifles tended to be slimmer and more elegant than the later, more massive, and shorter-barreled Hawken variant rifles, the Hawken Rifles having evolved from the Kentucky Rifle for use against larger, more dangerous game encountered in the American West, against which more massive bullets and larger amounts of black powder were used. To conserve lead on the frontier, smaller calibers were often preferred, ranging often from about .36 to .45 cal. In the America’s, the Baker saw use with British troops fighting the War of 1812 in Canada and at the Battle of New Orleans. A total of 1,760 Type II rifles were produced by … Among the earliest documented working rifle makers are Adam Haymaker, who had a thriving trade in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Moravian gunshops at both Christian’s Spring in Pennsylvania and also in the Salem area of central North Carolina. The Kentucky (or Pennsylvania) Long Rifle was the most accuratelong-range gun for several decades.The first documented appearance of rifling was in Germany around 1460.The flintlockwas developed in the early 1600's. Our Price: $850.00 Compare. As a rifle became extensively more and more worn from use, with accumulated corrosion from firing blackpowder causing the bore to enlarge, it was not uncommon to see many such individual rifles being re-bored and re-rifled at larger calibers, to keep the rifle shooting accurately. Original Item: Only One Available. Overall length is 119cm. Serial number 15! This is truly amazing, a genuine BAKER rifle signed E. BAKER on the lock for EZEKIEL BAKER the famous British Gunsmith who apprenticed under Henry Nock and started his own establishment in 1775 at 24 Whitechapel Road in London. Rifles had been issued on a limited basis and consisted of parts made to no precise pattern, often brought in from Prussia. FR0838 DGW EARLY AMERICAN JAEGER FLINT RIFLE. For whatever reason, by the 1750s it was common to see frontiersmen carrying a new and distinctive style of rifle that was used with great skill to provide tens of thousands of deer hides for the British leather industry. The rifle has a fixed sight and a side mounted bayonet lug. This shot was later confirmed by witnesses on both sides and the distance measured at 250 yards. The Baker Rifle is a muzzle loading flintlock rifled musket with a walnut stock, brass fittings and a steel lockplate and barrel. Between the rifles you mentioned.... there's actually a big difference between the two and something to think about pending what you intend to do with it. An accomplished gunsmith had to be a skilled blacksmith, whitesmith, wood carver, brass and silver founder, engraver, and wood finisher. Baker replica Flintlock Rifle . Muskets were used earlier than rifles and were slowly replaced by rifles as rifles could shoot more accurately. Modern riflemen can shoot up to three shots a minute with a muzzle-loading rifle. Long rifles could be made entirely by hand and hand-operated tooling, in a frontier setting. While the smooth bore musket had an effective range of less than 100 yards, a good rifleman could hit a man-sized target out to three hundred yards or more. The Lancaster County Historical Society has an original Pennsylvania Long Rifle smithed by Meylin that was passed down within the family for seven generations before being donated to the society in the middle of the twentieth century. FR1332 DGW HAWKEN RIFLE BY INVESTARMS. Kentucky Rifle Flintlock - .45 Caliber: 15-2015: $525.00: Out Of Stock Kentucky Rifle Flintlock - .50 Caliber: 53-2010: 495.00: call THE KENTUCKY STANDARD: By: Pedersoli: This rifle evolved from the German hunting weapons and was a major rival of the Brown Bess. Quickview. These woodsmen were also exceptional trackers and Indian fighters, and played an important role in the French and Indian War which was fought in many parts of the American back country as a guerilla war. Although less commonly owned or seen on the frontier, the Kentucky Rifle style was also used on flintlock pistols during the same era. Light in weight; graceful in line; economical in consumption of powder an… These Kentucky Rifle style pistols were often matched in caliber to a Kentucky Rifle owned by the same user, to enable firing a common-sized and common-patched round lead ball. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns manufactured prior to 1899. Quickview. The term “Kentucky Rifle,” while not in use at the time of the War of 1812, very probably was a result of the fray. Although less commonly owned or seen on the frontier, the Kentucky Rifle style was also used on flintlock pistols during the same era. 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. Our Price: $595.00 Compare. All three areas were busy and productive centers of rifle making by the 1750s. Introduced in 1800, the Baker rifle was the British military's first issued rifle, based on German Jaeger rifles carried by German mercenaries employed by the British during the American revolution. Rifle shops dotted this road and kept the frontier supplied with the tools of exploration and conquest of the frontier. While I fully agree their both great rifles .... the Lyman GPR is a 1-60" twist rate barrel.... great for round balls ... but a little slow to stabilize heavier conicals / maxi-balls accuracy wise. Although experts argue the fine points of origin and lineage, it is accepted that the long rifle was the product of German gunsmiths who immigrated to new settlements in Pennsylvania and Virginia as early as the 1620s. The German gunsmiths working in America would have been very familiar with German rifles, which seldom had barrels longer than 30 inches, and often had barrels much shorter. Soon thereafter, Robert bought out his brother’s share. The main reason is the longer barrel gave the black powder — which burns slower than modern powders — more time to burn, increasing the muzzle velocity and hence the accuracy. The Great Wagon Road was a bustling frontier thoroughfare, and traced this same route – from eastern Pennsylvania, down the Shenandoah Valley, and spilling into both the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and the Yadkin River (Salem) area of North Carolina. At his death, his son Caleb kept up the tradition and later used to great effect in the American Revolution. Essentially, the gist of it was that the Baker rifle's strength lay in its accuracy, and it was probably the most accurate weapon of the era. By the late 1600's gunsmiths wereexperimenting with longer barrels than the forerunner Yaeger. Overall fine condition, caliber .45. The American frontier, as remote as it was, was not divorced from this trend, and the best American long rifles have art applied to them that is fully the equal of any Philadelphia cabinet or silver shop. The long rifle required a full minute to load, far longer than a musket’s 20 seconds. The rifle also has kept its ramrod and cleaning and maintenance tools in the case at the bottom of the stock. Quickview. It is characterized by an unusually long barrel, sometimes more than four feet in length, which is felt to be in large part a unique development of American rifles. Although some speculation would have it that a longer gun was easier to load from horseback by resting the butt of the rifle on the ground, this was not a consideration, as the rifles were not exclusively used from horseback, and making rifles long enough to be loaded in this fashion would make them inconveniently long to be loaded while on foot. Many extant copies of historical Kentucky Rifles are seen with a bore of around .50 caliber, having been the last caliber to which the barrel had been bored and rifled. It is interesting to note, however, that strong pockets of long rifle use and manufacture continued in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina, well into the 20th century, as a practical and efficient firearm for these still quite rural segments of the nation. It has an Accession Number of 1884.27.39. Just below you will find an alphabetical listing of riflemakers in the KRF database. But a rifle is a special weapon. The rifle was donated by Augustus Henry Lane Fox i… The settlers of western Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina soon gained a reputation for hardy independence and rifle marksmanship as a way of life, further reinforced by the performance of riflemen in the American Revolution as well as the War of 1812. The Martin Meylin Gunshop still stands today in Willow Street, Pennsylvania on Long Rifle Road. There was a price for this accuracy, however. The long rifle or longrifle was a type of rifle used in early America by both the military and civilians. In that war, the long rifle gained its more famous nickname the Kentucky Rifle, after a popular song “The Hunters of Kentucky”, about Andrew Jackson and his victory at the Battle of New Orleans. PR0642 Traditions Crockett Rifle - Percussion. Deployed in a chain of four men, Riflemen skirmished in front of the main battle line, the front man aiming and firing while the three in the rear were in various stages of loading their weapons. With the same graceful stock lines and barrel style, and craftsmenship, they were noticeably slimmer and had a longer rifled barrel with better sights than had been seen on the earlier Colonial style flintlock pistols. Quickview ... PS3445 PEDERSOLI BAKER CAVALRY SHOTGUN. The Hawken brothers used the Kentucky as a model for their guns, but the barrels were much shorter (26 to 38 inches), because their users had discovered that a long-barreled rifle, regardless of its advantages, was a damned unhandy thing to hunt with from horseback. Gradually, however, a group of solitary frontiersmen, Indian fighters, and professional market hunters began using more and more rifles due to their longer effective range. Further stating that, with the technology of the day, it was too costly for general army issue. Baker was a gunmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from somewhere around 1819 to 1859. Many people also would give their rifles names such as “Killdeer”, the rifle of Natty Bumppo from the Leatherstocking Tales. By the time of the American Revolution, a strong tradition of riflery had been ingrained into the citizens of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, and all lands extending westward into the Indian territories. Many Baker rifles were also sold to other countries, and the Baker was carried into action by Mexican soldiers assaulting the Alamo. It was the first standard-issue, British-made rifle accepted by the British armed forces. PR3455 PEDERSOLI 3 BAND ENFIELD RIFLE PEDERSOLI. can easily extend the median range of the long rifle to 400-500 yards. Artistically, the long rifle is known for its graceful stock, often made of curly maple, and its ornate decoration, decorative inlays, and an integral, well-made patchbox that was built into the stock. This figure is meant for the normal or novice user. Although it presently states that "the Kentucky rifle was a variant of the long rifle", it doesn't back that claim up with any text or sources.-- Father Goose ( talk ) 06:11, 3 March 2010 (UTC) With all due respect, what difference does it make what a Google search returns on a search for long rifle or longrifle. The new turnpike in Eastern Oklahoma County will run through the middle of the "Old" Rifle Shoppe as well as our homes! The name ‘Deckard Rifle’ was considered the brand name and ‘Kentucky rifle’ was the more broadly accepted nickname of this rifle. Riflemakers are listed by their state and school. 2/95th Rifles (Australia) demonstrates its preferred method for loading and firing the Baker infantry rifle in the field. The long rifle developed on the American frontier in the period beginning in the 1740s, and continued its development technically and artistically until it passed out of fashion in the mid-to-late 19th century. Baker 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. This lasted until the Mountain Men (who smelled even worse) took over, and the Hawken rifle evolved. That spin makes the ballistics of the weapon far more predictable, therefore more accurate.