Bill Ivey and Kenneth Orr discuss the nine schools of North Carolina long rifles. Many of the rifles described are now on display in a new exhibit at the High Point Museum in High Point, North Carolina.
One of my great grand fathers is Martin myland he was on my mom's side and he had made the first pa long rifle and we had it until my grandmother gave it to the historical society a couple years ago
Great information on some wonderful rifles and examples of the skills of early settlers. I would have liked to see a view of the mortising of the tang into the top of the neck of the stock. All in all, a big thumbs up and subscribe. Thank you sir.
I enjoyed the talk. I just picked up a Appalacian style, but it is a gunsmith made rifle in 45 cal. It looks very similar to yours except it doesn't have a patchbox and it has a cheek rest.
"Ach du lieber, mein schatz"! Wunnerful video & very educational! But what happened to the Roman Nose & Lehigh Valley (Ruup?) styles? The greatly downward curve to the bottom of the buttstock was a thing of great beauty as was the beautiful curve to the comb!! Even if these rifles had NO BORE HOLE to shoot through (God forbid!!!), they still would be gorgeous things of sculptural beauty! They are nonetheless wonderful pieces of ART, to be "relished" by the eye & felt by the hand!!! The "lust of the eye & the lust of the hand"! "Gesundheit"!
thank you so very much for putting this video out. i wish i could afford this book, but being on disability it costs one seventh of my monthly income. one can always dream though.
I like the Jamestown and Mecklenburg schools. Not familiar with North Carolina rifles, just Pennsylvania Longrifles. Have to get this book. Old German Jaegers are beautiful too. Shooting good reproductions is a lot of fun based on my personal experience. Looks like 8 Chicoms or Wokesters voted this down. **** them. Great video and book gentlemen.
The North Carolina “schools” define distinctive styles of longrifles. Gun makers in certain areas of North Carolina who crafted longrifles of similar design are grouped together and given a name from the area where they worked. The longrifles of each school have similar design features showing that the gunsmiths in these areas trained with and learned from each other, and those features are different from another group - or school - of longrifle style made in another part of the state. There were many gun makers who trained in Salem and copied the distinguishing features of Salem rifles. Those guns are now said to be of the “Salem school.” The historic site, Old Salem, has a working gun shop and also has displays of many longrifles made in Salem.
