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Just purchased this beautiful "Lancaster County", PA. style Flintlock Rifle
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Bill-Haycock > Jacob Dickert, Lancaster County longrifle, .40 caliber, 36" barrel, curly maple, brass trim, good inletting, attractive raised carving. The gun is stocked in a well figured piece of curly maple and is trimmed in brass furniture, including a side opening patchbox in the butt. The heart of the rifle is its .40 caliber straight 7/8" octagon Green Mountain barrel. Measuring 36" in overall length the octagon barrel has been finished a chocolate brown. The barrel is cut rifled with eight lands and grooves with a 1 in 48" twist for patched round balls.
Bill-Haycock > Stocked in figured maple, the wood has been stained a medium whiskey brown to best show the stripes and curl, from the toe through to the muzzle. Note the side opening brass patchbox without a bezel fitted to this rifle. The patchbox has a button release in the comb of the buttplate.
Bill-Haycock > Top view shows the tapered comb of the buttstock, that starts wide at the heel and gradually narrows to the wrist. At the heel the comb is covered by a brass extension of the buttplate, this comb extension is finished with multiple flats to echo the octagon theme of the barrel, held in place by a single screw. To the rear of the screw is a small brass patchbox release button; depress it to open the box below. Separating the comb and wrist is a light line of raised carving, by moving up the wrist more carving can be found surrounding the straight tang of the breech plug. A brass oval inlay, sometimes called a "thumbpiece", has been set into the midpoint of the wrist. The Green Mountain barrel is 36" length, 7/8" across the octagon flats. Finished a nice chocolate brown it is not signed or marked. A flat rear sight has been installed on the barrel 10" forward of the breech and is matched ahead by a brass front sight 2-1/2" behind the muzzle.
Bill-Haycock > Jacob Dickert, Lancaster County longrifle photo
Bill-Haycock > L&R's early Jacob Dickert flint lock provides the ignition for this classic longrifle. Charcoal blued the lock has been well tuned and assembled, a few lines of decorative engraving can be seen running the edge of the lockplate and on the cock. Below the lock a set of double lever, double set triggers has been installed on the rifle. Properly tuned and adjusted the triggers can be set and fired in any sequence. This feature makes the rifle just as handy at the range as it does in the woods, set the rear trigger for a light trigger when at the range and fire the rifle without setting the triggers when hunting.
Bill-Haycock > The backside view of the Lancaster rifle shows off the large brass sideplate that has been used on the rifle along with the two lock bolts that hold it in place. Each of the bolts continues through the stock to engage the lock on the opposite side.
Bill-Haycock > This close-up view of the patchbox shows that feature in greater detail. A light flourish of engraving can be seen at the head of the cover, it is expertly done. The patchbox is easily opened by depressing the button found on top of the rifle in the comb extension, when the button is depressed and internal latch is pressed down and the cover is allowed to pop open. Note the line of molding that runs along the base of the stock from the toe to the triggerguard, this molding line is duplicated on the opposite side of the rifle and also forward along the ramrod channel.
Bill-Haycock > This view shows the cheek and the beautifully executed raised carving that surrounds the cheek. Rococo style "C" scrolls dominate the rear of the butt. The carving is exceptionally smooth, the background being especially clean which allows the carving to be correct, shallow, yet well defined. This is true for the other examples of carving, ahead of the cheek and on the wrist.
Bill-Haycock > Fifty yard zero target. .400 RB 40 grains 3f powder .015 Teflon patch Wind: 3 mph left to right
Fifty yard zero target.
.400 RB
40 grains 3f powder
.015 Teflon patch
Wind: 3 mph left to right
> Fifty yard zero target. .400 RB 40 grains 3f powder .015 Teflon patch Wind: 3 mph left to right
Fifty yard zero target.
.400 RB
40 grains 3f powder
.015 Teflon patch
Wind: 3 mph left to right
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