{"id":16360,"date":"2017-06-20T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/?p=16360"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:38:22","slug":"thoughts-on-the-kentucky-rifle-in-its-golden-age-annotated-3rd-edition-joe-kindig-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/thoughts-on-the-kentucky-rifle-in-its-golden-age-annotated-3rd-edition-joe-kindig-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age – Annotated 3rd Edition – Joe Kindig, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age<\/h1>\n

Annotated 3rd Edition – Joe Kindig, Jr.<\/h2>\n

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Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age<\/h1>\n

Annotated 3rd Edition – Joe Kindig, Jr.<\/h2>\n

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About “Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age – Annotated 3rd Edition – Joe Kindig, Jr.”<\/h2>\n

In Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age – Annotated 3rd Edition, author Joe Kindig, Jr. defines the American Longrifle as the finest example of truly American rococo art, using 262 rifles from his extensive collection. The most comprehensive source ever published, our monumental 3rd Edition features dramatically improved photos using the original negatives, now including the locks.<\/p>\n

A new 48 page addition features over 240 full color photos with multiple, detailed views of 28 of the finest Kentuckys, many previously unpublished. Much new information discovered over the last 35 years has been added, along with the extensive information & photos from Shumway’s 1983 edition. The early Pennsylvania & Maryland schools of gunsmithing are covered, along with biographical data on the makers.
\nItem 4165-004-562, 624 pages and over 1,100 photos & illustrations, 240 in full color, in an oversize, 9″ x 12″ hardbound volume.<\/b><\/p>\n

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5 Star Amazon Review (overall rating 4.5+)<\/h2>
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Joe Kindig’s Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle is a major work, cataloguing as it does the exhaustive Kindig longrifle collection. Even now, thirty seven years after its initial publication, no other work in the field (with the possible exception of George Shumway’s Rifles of Colonial America, in two volumes,) comes close to its breadth of analysis, or to the sheer number of splendid arms shown in fine B&W illustrations. Each of the several 18th century Pennsylvania gunmaking schools is anlayzed individually, with several rifles from that school presented and discussed. The text is far from dry and analytical, however. It is alive with humor and anecdotes, and apart from being top-notch research (or very educated opinion where the facts are unknown as yet), is a joy to read in its own right.<\/p>\n

Most likely the book will be bought for its illustrations, though, for as interesting as the text is, the book is splitting at the seams with hundreds of crisp black and white photogtraphs from the late Mr. Kindig’s landmark rifle collection which he assembled over his long life. Virtually every phase of metamorphosis in the fascinating development of the American longrifle is shown in close detail, with textual analysis of each rifle answering questions and asking new ones as well.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to imagine delving into this field of study and not owning Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle. It is a vivid portrait of one of the great American artforms, and of a collection that may never again be altogether in the same place under the same owner, especially one as affectionate toward its subject as Joe Kindig.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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