Our Price: $490.00 Compare. PR0642 Traditions Crockett Rifle - Percussion. Riflemakers are listed by their state and school. Quickview ... PS3445 PEDERSOLI BAKER CAVALRY SHOTGUN. 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. 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. More details. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns manufactured prior to 1899. The displayed rifle in the Gun Case has a label that states the weapon is a Baker Rifle of circa 1800 that was issued to specialist rifle regiments at the beginning of the 19 th century. The move to the New Rifle Shoppe took longer than expected, involving thousands of parts, pieces and several tons of machinery. 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. The Baker Rifle is a muzzle loading flintlock rifled musket with a walnut stock, brass fittings and a steel lockplate and barrel. 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. all took their style cues from the prevailing trends of the day, and as in most things the fashion was set in Paris. An accomplished gunsmith had to be a skilled blacksmith, whitesmith, wood carver, brass and silver founder, engraver, and wood finisher. 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. 2nd Model flintlock made in 1810 and used in the War of 1812 most likely. 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. 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 less commonly owned or seen on the frontier, the Kentucky Rifle style was also used on flintlock pistols during the same era. Baker rifle of the early 19th Century with steel lock and lock plate, trigger, ramrod and barrel with brass patch box, butt plate and trigger guard. The new turnpike in Eastern Oklahoma County will run through the middle of the "Old" Rifle Shoppe as well as our homes! FR0838 DGW EARLY AMERICAN JAEGER FLINT RIFLE. The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech-loading rifles to be put into service by the British military. The longer barrel also allowed for finer sighting and thus greater accuracy. Baker Rifle. Baker was a gunmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from somewhere around 1819 to 1859. 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. Our Price: $1,525.00 Compare. 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. In fact, at one time it was a weapon for elite forces only. 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. 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. Original Item: Only One Available. Long rifles could be made entirely by hand and hand-operated tooling, in a frontier setting. The decorative arts of furniture making, painting, silver smithing, gunsmithing, etc. Hitting a target so precisely at that range would probably make the Kentucky Rifle comparable in total effective (long) range with the British Baker rifle at 700 to 800 yards. Muskets were used earlier than rifles and were slowly replaced by rifles as rifles could shoot more accurately. Our reproduction Baker Rifle is offered in smoothbore only at this time. The British army had learned the value of rifles from their experience in the American Revolution. 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. Although less commonly owned or seen on the frontier, the Kentucky Rifle style was also used on flintlock pistols during the same era. 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). Furthermore, it was the first British military firearm to be rifled. To conserve lead on the frontier, smaller calibers were often preferred, ranging often from about .36 to .45 cal. In 1719, Robert and his son Caleb petitioned Jacob Taylor, the Penns’ Provincial Secretary, to build a shop and mill for “boaring” gun barrels. 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. 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 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. For UK sales NO licence is required! Baker replica Flintlock Rifle . Mechanically, a Kentucky Rifle was often the most complex mechanical object owned by its user. 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. Quickview. Originally rather plain, it did not take long for the long rifle to be a source of pride for its owner, and by the 1770s every surface of the rifle could be used as a canvas for excellent applied art. PR0586 Tradition's Kentucky Rifle - Percussion. 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. Many Baker rifles were also sold to other countries, and the Baker was carried into action by Mexican soldiers assaulting the Alamo. Just below you will find an alphabetical listing of riflemakers in the KRF database. All three areas were busy and productive centers of rifle making by the 1750s. 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. A Baker rifle dating to after 1806. 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. This lasted until the Mountain Men (who smelled even worse) took over, and the Hawken rifle evolved. There was a price for this accuracy, however. 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. A document describing the history of Meylin, the Gunshop, and archeology of the shop is available online from Millersville University. Pennsylvania rifles played much the same role in the War of 1812 as they had in the Revolution. Preserving the Heritage of the Kentucky Rifle ℠ Web Design and Maintenance by JW Web Solutions, Web Design and Maintenance by JW Web Solutions. 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. 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. 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 long rifle or longrifle was a type of rifle used in early America by both the military and civilians. 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. By the late 1600's gunsmiths wereexperimenting with longer barrels than the forerunner Yaeger.