Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Rifle with Set Trigger and Cheek Rest circa 1840 Original Antique Guns Volume XI Issue I

Volume XI Issue I

Eddie Quarford

but from which one they came is undetermined

the purpose of which was to support the belt at the correct height as it passed through the feedway

though it could probably be replaced

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Rifle with Set Trigger and Cheek Rest circa 1840 Original Antique Guns Volume XI Issue IOriginal Item: Only One Available. This just came out of the attic after a hundred years of storage, together with a couple of hundred other guns. Here is an octagonal barreled Rifled "Kentucky" style rifle, which more correctly is known as a Pennsylvania Rifle. The Rifled . 39 caliber octagonal barrel is 37" long and the rifle measures 52 1 2" in overall length. The percussion lock looks to be a British "Trade" lock, but the maker marking is worn