There is no specific length, but they usually have a 40 - 48 inch barrel. Add another 16 to 18 inches for the stock and they could be as long as 51/2 feet overall.
Rifles and shotguns are separate types of firearm. The Kentucky Long-Rifle was as its name implies a rifle, not a shotgun.
The Kentucky Long-Rifle is known alternatively as the Pennsylvania Long-Rifle, and the American Long-Rifle. Being from the Commonwealth of Kentucly the author of this answer asserts that Kentucky Long-Rifle is the one and true proper name. Now, as to the meat of the question. This long pattern of rifle first appeared in Pennsylvania as a product of German immigrants to the American Colonies. Due to its capabilities the gun rapidly proliferated from there. This type of firearm came to be known as the 'Kentucky Long-Rifle' in later years for a number of reasons. The most important of which would be that in colonial times the men of Kentucky had a reputation not only as hunters; but as Sharpshooters wielding this distinctive family of long-rifles.
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YOu can spend 100-10000 USD on one.
You need the services of a gunsmith
One. It was a single shot muzzle loader.
Varies. European Jager rifles were shorter, and fired larger bullets. The Pennsylvania rifle (miscalled the Kentucky rifle) were of smaller caliber, but longer- about 5 feet.
No, Davy Crockett did not have a rifle named Long Bess. Long Bess was actually the nickname for a type of long rifle used by British soldiers, specifically the Brown Bess musket. Davy Crockett is more famously associated with his own rifle, often referred to as his "Kentucky rifle" or simply his trusty rifle, though it did not have a specific name like Long Bess.
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nobody really knows who made it, but it was a group of foreign gunsmiths in the mid-1600's
Kentucky Rifle was used, it was long ranged and silent and in service from 1700 to 1900.
That depends... Early versions of the Kentucky Long-Rifle were flintlock guns and thus required flint to ignite the powder in the flash-pan. Later versions were made to use percussion caps; while many of the older flintlocks were modified by gunsmiths and 'upgraded' to percussion caps.