[OneLongShot]

This is a question from a friend of mine about a specific muzzleloader, if anyone has any information about the answer I'd appreciate it......Thanks, OLS

Here it is:
You being from PA, have you ever heard of a muzzleloader which is famous and made from curly maple used by Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton and was a famous long-rifle the frontiersmen had around the Ft. Pitt area back in the 1780's?

I used to have a website where you could order them hand made. Let me know if you are familiar with that type. They have a octagon barrel and are of the flintlock design.

 

[mountainman09]

i think this is what your asking they called it the ky longrifle they even had a song for it called the hunters of kentucky

 

[mccoy]

Boone was reported to carry a Pennsylvania longrifle of the York school

 

[Retiredusne8]

Flintlocks
Look on this site and you may find what you are looking for,there 5 pages of rifles.

 

[brewyak]

From what I understand Boone carried a York school gun, and whenever he ordered up a new gun it did come from PA. But as for the specific I really have no clue

 

[m77lewis]

This is a question from a friend of mine about a specific muzzleloader, if anyone has any information about the answer I'd appreciate it......Thanks, OLS

Here it is:
You being from PA, have you ever heard of a muzzleloader which is famous and made from curly maple used by Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton and was a famous long-rifle the frontiersmen had around the Ft. Pitt area back in the 1780's?

I used to have a website where you could order them hand made. Let me know if you are familiar with that type. They have a octagon barrel and are of the flintlock design.

Not sure but I have the book The Frontiersman, it is about Simon Kenton, I don't remember if it gave a specific rifle that he used, I'll look to see

 

[m77lewis]

Simon Kenton's rifle was made by Henry Leman of Lancaster.
A Pennsylvania flintlock with a 40 inch octagonal barrel with a curly maple stock decorated with an 8 point star and a crescent moon in brass.
According to the Frontiersmen.

 

[OneLongShot]

Guys thanks for the information...... HPA rules!!!!!!!

 

[Retiredusne8]

Leman rifle were sometimes called an Indian trade rifle.Leman Rifle often had a faux curly maple finish,Stripes are painted with diluted stain or ink,using an artists brush not burned in,which gave the stock a tiger stripe effect.

Rifle 1
Rifle 2