The Kentucky flintlock-hunting rifle was actually created by immigrant craftsman from Germany and Switzerland in the 1730s in Lancaster, Pa. The rifle remained a state of the art gun for the next ...

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged ...

A “Typical” Kentucky Rifle . All these developments didn’t come at once. They were spread over years, but if it were possible to describe a “typical” or composite Kentucky rifle it might be ...

The Long Rifle, also known as the Kentucky Rifle, was a flintlock rifle with a longer barrel compared to the muskets of the time, measuring around 40-48 inches.

BOZEMAN - Melchoir Fordney, killed in 1843 by an ax-wielding Baptist, was a celebrated gunmaker before his untimely end. He built Kentucky flintlock rifles in Pennsylvania, rifles with elaborate ...