Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age
by J. Rex Reddick
Category: Gunsmiths

Flintlock rifles were produced chiefly along the Appalachian piedmont from the eastern border of Pennsylvania to South Carolina. Among the localities in this region, distinctly different artistic details were used to decorate the rifles, and distinctly different styles of stock architecture and metal mountings were used. This text examines those differences.