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Ticklicker - The .29 caliber
frontier long rifle owned by Daniel Boone (1734-1820),
legendary folk hero who lived in the North
Carolina-Tennessee-Kentucky areas during the days of the
Revolutionary War.
In the beginning of the adventure Daniel Boone: And Chase
the Buffalo produced for THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY in
1960, Walt Disney introduced the program saying:
"It has never been clearly explained how Daniel Boone's long
rifle came to be called "Ticklicker." Maybe it was just his
way of saying that shot true enough to lick a tick off a
target. Or maybe it was name of the gun maker. Nobody knows.
But the fact remains, that Daniel could do just about what he
wanted to with that rifle. And it's recorded, too, that on
many occasions when didn't have time to reload, he dropped
down two attacking Indians with one shot. A kind of a billiard
shot, you might call it"
Dewey Martin played the legendary frontiersman on the series
based on the novel "Daniel Boone" by John Bakeless. Later in the
1960s, Fess Parker (who had played Davy Crockett in the popular
Walt Disney TV features in the 1950s) starred as
Daniel Boone on the frontier adventure
DANIEL BOONE/NBC/1964-1970.
Dan’l Boone Song
(Sung on Disney Film)
Although his life depended a lot
On every handmade bullet he shot,
The one thing he never learned was this,
He never learned how to miss,
He never learned how to miss,
He never learned how to miss . . .
I guess no man’l ever be Dan’l
Ever be Dan’l, Ever be Dan’l Boone.
TRIVIA NOTE: The ghost-written autobiography
"The Adventures of
Col. Daniel Boone" was written by John Filson (1784). It
popularized the many exploits of this American frontiersman.
Boone's rifle is now housed in the Museum at Frankfort in
Kentucky. See also "Old
Betsy the Rifle"
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