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'''The ''Kentucky Flintlock Rifle'' has been used in the following films:''' | '''The ''Kentucky Flintlock Rifle'' has been used in the following films:''' | ||
[[Image:Kentuckyrifle.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Kentucky Rifle - .50, .45, or .36 caliber.]] | [[Image:Kentuckyrifle.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Kentucky Rifle - .50, .45, or .36 caliber.]] | ||
==Info== | ==Info== | ||
The Kentucky rifle, sometimes also known as the "Long Rifle" or "Pennsylvania Rifle" is famously known as the first "rifle", meaning it has lands and grooves in the barrel to spin the bullet as it leaves the gun, making it far more accurate than the other smooth bore "muskets" of the time, including the British Brown Bess. The colonists during the Revolutionary War favored Kentucky Rifles since they had used them for hunting and when fighting the British, they | The Kentucky rifle, sometimes also known as the "Long Rifle" or "Pennsylvania Rifle" is famously known as the first "rifle", meaning it has lands and grooves in the barrel to spin the bullet as it leaves the gun, making it far more accurate than the other smooth bore "muskets" of the time, including the British Brown Bess. | ||
The colonists during the Revolutionary War favored Kentucky Rifles since they had used them for hunting and when fighting the British, they definitely knew how to use them. The gun is also well known as being the first true Sniper rifle, based on how an experienced marksman could shoot a redcoat off his horse at up to 250 yards. The gun was used all the way up to the War of 1812 before the Scottish Percussion design slowly phased the flintlock design out. Some Percussion models of the rifle were made, but by that time the rifling had become so common, the gun became obsolete as a frontline weapon after the Mexican American War. | |||
== Specifications == | == Specifications == | ||
Revision as of 04:03, 7 March 2010
The Kentucky Flintlock Rifle has been used in the following films:
Info
The Kentucky rifle, sometimes also known as the "Long Rifle" or "Pennsylvania Rifle" is famously known as the first "rifle", meaning it has lands and grooves in the barrel to spin the bullet as it leaves the gun, making it far more accurate than the other smooth bore "muskets" of the time, including the British Brown Bess.
The colonists during the Revolutionary War favored Kentucky Rifles since they had used them for hunting and when fighting the British, they definitely knew how to use them. The gun is also well known as being the first true Sniper rifle, based on how an experienced marksman could shoot a redcoat off his horse at up to 250 yards. The gun was used all the way up to the War of 1812 before the Scottish Percussion design slowly phased the flintlock design out. Some Percussion models of the rifle were made, but by that time the rifling had become so common, the gun became obsolete as a frontline weapon after the Mexican American War.
Specifications
- Weight: Variable
- Length: over 65 in.
- Barrel length: 35 in. (889 mm), to over 48 in. (1220 mm)
- Cartridge: none
- Caliber: 0.500 in, approximately, .36 cal to .45 cal also were common
- Action: Flintlock
- Rate of fire: User dependent, Usually 1+ rounds a minute
- Muzzle velocity: Variable
- Effective range: Variable, 80 to 100 yards typical, to well over 250 yards by an experienced user
- Feed system: Muzzle loaded
Film
- Mel Gibson and various in The Patriot (2000)
- Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
- A town member in Pale Rider
Television
- Used in an episode of The Unit
- Gunny in Mail CallFess Parker in Davy Crockett
Kentucky Flintlock in Davy Crockett?!