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A Southern Longrifle Article
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david64:
This article is taken from the June 1976 issue of Muzzle Blasts magazine. I thought that others might like to read it too.
G-Man:
There was an LW McInturff who worked in Unicoi County (upper east TN) - according to John Rice Irwin's book he, like many others in the mountain regions, supported the Union in the Civil War and formed a compnay of volunteers.
That is a neat gun - looks to have some "Gillespie" in it to me.
Guy
Ken G:
Jerry Nobles mentions this rifle in Vol. signed on the barrel "McInturff Defies the World". Wonder what that meant?
He attributes it to McInturff Jr.
Ken
Ken G:
David,
Thanks for posting the article. It's before my time and I had never seen it. I have filed away. I see Gillespie like Guy does except for the lock plate and trigger guard with the tiny curl. Both I have seen on upper E. TN guns.
I love the grease hole.
Ken
Dennis Glazener:
--- Quote ---That is a neat gun - looks to have some "Gillespie" in it to me.
Guy
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--- Quote ---I see Gillespie like Guy does except for the lock plate and trigger guard with the tiny curl. Ken
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Well I do too! I have only seen oval shaped grease holes on Gillespie's and somewhere I have a photo of a signed Gillespie with a trigger guard that is very much like that one. I will dig it up later and post a photo of it.
Dennis
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