Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Percussion Conversion Rifle with Set Trigger and Figured Stock - c.1840 Japanese Replica By the time the fighting

By the time the fighting ended on Guadalcanal and the Japanese forces withdrew

It bears the original manufacture label in the lower right pocket

On the left hand side below the rubber earpiece is a sewn-in plug connector for the throat  microphone

and has a fine armory bright patina

"I had 184 men

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Percussion Conversion Rifle with Set Trigger and Figured Stock - c.1840 Japanese Replica By the time the fightingOriginal Item: Only One Available. This very attractive rifle originally started life as a Flintlock long Rifle with 7 groove rifling. Around the 1840's it was converted to the Percussion cap system. It was manufactured with a "Set Trigger" consisting of two triggers, setting the the hair trigger with the rear trigger and actually discharging the rifle by barely touching the front trigger making the weapon, in capable hands, a very accurate weapon.