Lancaster County Rifle

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This rifle is patterned after A Jacob Dickert Rifle. Dickert was a prolific gun maker in the latter part of the 18th century. It has the necessary furniture to be easily recognized as one from the Lancaster school. It is not an exact copy of an original Dickert but rather a contemporary rendition of that particular school. The gun is left handed with a Getz barrel and a Siler lock. It is 50 caliber brass mounted carved and engraved. The hunters star on the cheek piece is pierced and in the piercing a piece of cow horn inlet.