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Wm. Britton Rifle

Posted on November 9, 2007 (August 12, 2022) by Mark Elliott

Shown here is an original rifle attributed to William Britton of Hampshire County, West Virginia. It is published on page 64 of Gunsmiths of West Virginia by Lambert and Whisker. This rifle has been re-converted from percussion to flint. The Maslin lock shown is not original to the gun and is poorly fitted in the […]

Iron Mounted Eastern Tennessee Rifle

Posted on November 5, 2007 (August 12, 2022) by Mark Elliott

This is an original, fully iron mounted rifle most likely made somewhere on the border of southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee probably between 1820 and 1830.. The lines of the breech stock look Virginia while the mounts are typical East Tennessee. The stock is a plain piece of Black Walnut in pretty good shape […]