Talk:Kentucky Flintlock Rifle

I fixed the page, how's it look? -GM

Rifle History

The article makes mention of this as the first rifle. The use of rifling dates back to the late 1400's though it was rarely used except on expensive target and hunting weapons. Perhaps the epithet "first practical rifle" or "first widely successful rifle" would more appropriate. -Anonymous

Not even. It's am American classic, and may be the first American-made rifle (though I suspect there were some Jaeger rifles made in the colonies before the Pennsylvania-pattern became predominant). There's really no "first" about it. - Nyles