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Southern Banded Powder Horns

Posted on July 22, 2020 (April 16, 2023) by Mark Elliott

Feature - Horn #54 - banded, screw-tip powder horn

On this page I have some southern multi-banded powder horns. These types of horns are typically found in North Carolina and south. The single banded horns are covered on the Virginia Applied Tip Powder Horns page. All these horns have applied tips with most being screw-tips. This medium sized horn (Horn #54) is a traditional […]

What is an American Longrifle?

Posted on August 10, 2011 (August 12, 2022) by Mark Elliott

“From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a […]