Rifles of Colonial America Vol. 1 Book-Longrifles study

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RIFLES OF COLONIAL AMERICA VOLUME I by George Shumway **** A Book of the Longrifle Series An extensive photographic study of American longrifles from the colonial period, the Revolutionary War period, and the post-Revolutionary years. A MUST-HAVE for your black powder, muzzle-loading, flintlock, Kentucky rifle, or antique firearms library! *** PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 800 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS *** Above: An inside view of book. America's flintlock rifle came into its Golden Age in the post-Revolutionary decades of the Federal Period. But its beginnings were in the pre-Revolutionary years, a period that has long been an enigma to students of the rifle. Public records giving information about the gunsmiths of this early period are scarce, and so are surviving rifles of the period. This first volume in a two-volume work is a detailed photographic study of the rifles that have survived from the early period. Typically, ten or twelve illustrations of each rifle are presented together with a discussion of each piece, the baroque or decorative artwork involved, and a set of critical measurements. For the benefit of the many people today who are interested in making or recreating flintlock rifles, this book can be a most useful aid and guide. The many detailed photos of each rifle provide the kind of information that builders read more

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