- Author
- Beck, Herbert Huebener,
- Date of Publication
- 1949
. It used less ammunition, it was more quickly
loaded, it was easier to carry than the Jaeger. It was the Penn-
sylvania, the so-called Kentucky rifle.
For about a century and a half, until about 1880, when breech-
loading rifles came into general use, the Pennsylvania rifle, through
its flintlock and