KENTUCKY RIFLE RETURNING TO FAVOUR
WASHINGTON. The famed muzzle-loading Kentucky rifle, an unmatched weapon in early frontier days, is enjoying a welldeserved return to popularity. Gun clubs and sports enthusiasts report renewed interest in the old rifle, which is again being used at rifle shooting meetings and in actual hunting. Marksmen interested in the sharp-shooting traditions of their forebears are rediscovering the Kentucky’s celebrated accuracy. It was one of the first to have rifling in the barrel.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27567, 8 December 1950, Page 8
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