Original U.S. Pennsylvania Flintlock Massive Barrel Target Rifle with Set Trigger & Flame Maple Stock c. 1830 Flintlock Pistols The gas-actuated Hotchkiss system was

The gas-actuated Hotchkiss system was first formulated in 1895 by Odkolek von Augeza ( Austria ) and improved into its final form by Hotchkiss armament engineers Laurence Benet and Henri Mercie

and the grip is wood and excellently covered in silver wire wrap

that was not converted prior to WWI

Left side buttstock has two faint arsenal cartouches

He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Flintlock Massive Barrel Target Rifle with Set Trigger & Flame Maple Stock c. 1830 Flintlock Pistols The gas-actuated Hotchkiss system wasOriginal Item: Only One Available. Just purchased at a recent military auction! Here is an octagonal barreled very upmarket "Kentucky" style flintlock target rifle, which more correctly is known as a Pennsylvania Rifle. It is in the quite large caliber of about . 55", and has a massive very heavy octagonal barrel with seven groove rifling. The barrel is 40 1 2" inches long, and 1 1 4" inches across at the widest point. It also is quite heavily