Mission Statement
The mission of AmericanLongrifles.org is to promote, preserve and support the traditional art and craft of building, collecting and using the American Longrifle. This would include accouterments and related arms of the period.
While the term American Longrifle may include a large and diverse group of firearms including those made for military and experimental reasons; the focus of the board is only those arms made primarily as sporting arms and utilizing a side lock ignition system.
Forum topics or discussions not in the spirit of the site's Mission Statement will be deleted or moved to an appropriate forum at the discretion of the moderators. We wish to keep forum discussions very close to the Mission Statement shown above.
American Longrifles is the more accurate term for the class of uniquely American firearms better known as Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifles. While the focus of this site is the American long rifle in all its incarnations, it is also a home for all those crafts persons preserving a bit of the past by building traditional muzzle loading sporting firearms and their accoutrements. The mission of AmericanLongrifles.com is to promote and support the art and craft of building historically accurate long rifles, related firearms, and accoutrements of the highest quality and artistic merit.
Whether you are an apprentice or a master at your craft, AmericanLongrifles.com has something to offer. The Books & Videos, Gun Building, and Web Links, pages of this site, offer the novice gun builder all the information and resources they need to get started building historically accurate long rifles. The Bulletin Board offers advice, encouragement, and camaraderie to the novice and experienced builder alike. It is our hope that each visitor gets as much from AmericanLongrifles.org as we have gotten by providing the site.
