Sharps rifle

[ISS]

PM me some time if you are interested in buying a Shiloh Sharps. The noise about C Sharps billet VS Shiloh Rifles cast receivers is mostly that. The next Shiloh receiver that fails will be the first one ever to. Shilohs also hold at least 100% of their original cost.
I currently own seven Shilohs and have one (M1877 in 38-55) coming for Christmas. I even own a 74 in 30-40 Krag. That one is the most fun to shoot, followed by one of my 45-70's. But I have them in 45-100 and 50-90 as well.
I like bolt rifles, but I am a single shot junkie. I also own five Borchardts, and a sixth one with DST's being built now.
There is something about shooting a copy of the Sharps that decimated the Buffalo herds in the 1860-1880 era with black powder that is very compelling.

As I once wrote about that; Black Powder, White Smoke, how do they do that...?

ISS

 

[M14AMU]

Sharps Rifles! Will work you to death!!

 

[ISS]

M14AMU,

Sharps Rifles are a lot less work than being married.
Or Schuetzen rifles. I have a Pope 33-47, Pope barrel with full kit and Fecker scope from Pope when he worked at Stevens. It even has the false muzzle and factory iron sights. Probably my finest rifle.

ISS

 

[PerryR]

Check out "The Single Shot Exchange" magazine. They list lots of rifles for sale. I have a Shiloh Sharps and a Browning Highwall both in 45-70. I started to build a rifle like you on their website it was pretty close to 5k when I got done and about 18 month waiting period. I ended up finding a Sharps locally. It wasn't so much the cost but the waiting period that put me off.

 

[Gun Smith]

I was told about an extremely long range match (1 mile) in western Montana, for the Sharps rifles. Does anyone know when and where this match takes place? I would be an observer. We were in the Big Timber factories a few years back, the folks were very kind. beautiful rifles.

Wow, I never realized Big Timber was the home of a Sharps rifle maker. I bunked in Big Timber several times
on road trips between Washington and Illinoisey and Tennessee. Would have loved to visit them. I was very
fortunate to be given a tour of the Ballard rifle works when it was in Cody years ago. A local news crew, if I recall correctly, was filming the CNC machines whittling out receivers for the Browning Single Shot repro's they made. Very impressive! Would have loved to take one home but my checkbook won the argument!

 

[FNSafari]

I don't own a sharps but did acquire, from a friend, a single shot CPA rifle which is a Stevens 44 1/2 clone. It came with little shot 32-40 and 22 rimfire barrels and two forends...a flat for benchrest and a nice shotgun style for silhouettes. Thankfully it came with a reasonable amount of 32-40 brass as that stuff is hard to find at this time. It shoots real good.

 

[RCE1]

Wow, I never realized Big Timber was the home of a Sharps rifle maker. I bunked in Big Timber several times
on road trips between Washington and Illinoisey and Tennessee. Would have loved to visit them. I was very
fortunate to be given a tour of the Ballard rifle works when it was in Cody years ago. A local news crew, if I recall correctly, was filming the CNC machines whittling out receivers for the Browning Single Shot repro's they made. Very impressive! Would have loved to take one home but my checkbook won the argument!

Big Timber has not one, but two Sharps rifle makers. They used to be the same company but split into two different ones. There's some history there. I have one Shiloh and several BRC Ballards and HighWalls. That was a real dream team for a while.

 

[DirtySteve]

Wow, I never realized Big Timber was the home of a Sharps rifle maker. I bunked in Big Timber several times
on road trips between Washington and Illinoisey and Tennessee. Would have loved to visit them. I was very
fortunate to be given a tour of the Ballard rifle works when it was in Cody years ago. A local news crew, if I recall correctly, was filming the CNC machines whittling out receivers for the Browning Single Shot repro's they made. Very impressive! Would have loved to take one home but my checkbook won the argument!

Next time through there stop at both Shiloh and C Sharps same street just 100 yards apart. Then lunch at the Grand Hotel. Or if you like lamb, get a herder burger at the Timber Bar. I thhhink it is called the Herder Burger if not they should name it that. lol

 

[misser]

I happen to know some one that has one in 45-70, dang that thing is heavy . I can see why they made a plastic one for the movie

 

[Gun Smith]

M14AMU,

Sharps Rifles are a lot less work than being married.
Or Schuetzen rifles. I have a Pope 33-47, Pope barrel with full kit and Fecker scope from Pope when he worked at Stevens. It even has the false muzzle and factory iron sights. Probably my finest rifle.

ISS

Wow, a genuine Pope! Way cool. I believe one of Guy Lautard's Machinist Bedside Readers has a nice story starring Harry Pope and his legendary super accurate rifles! That's a real treasure you have!

I built a "sort of" false muzzle bullet starter for a friends .451 cal. Euroarms 3 band muzzleloader. Made a huge difference in accuracy to be seating the bullet straight. The factory sights were garbage. I fit a Buffington rear sight from a Trapdoor, and a Lyman front sight with the inserts. That gun was very accurate using a 250 grain Lyman mold #45424 (?) pure lead cast bullet, made for a .45 Colt, with 45 grs. of Swiss 3f black powder.

 

[Gun Smith]

Big Timber has not one, but two Sharps rifle makers. They used to be the same company but split into two different ones. There's some history there. I have one Shiloh and several BRC Ballards and HighWalls. That was a real dream team for a while.

Thanks for the info. I could kick myself for being in the land of Sharps and not knowing there were two
great gun makers in that neat town. Sometimes I ain't too Sharp!

I was just plum delighted that they had the railroad right across from the motel so it could wake me up several times during the night. We always specked a train as a must have when booking a place to rest. Just kiddin!

 

[Gun Smith]

Next time through there stop at both Shiloh and C Sharps same street just 100 yards apart. Then lunch at the Grand Hotel. Or if you like lamb, get a herder burger at the Timber Bar. I thhhink it is called the Herder Burger if not they should name it that. lol

Thanks for the info Steve.
Love Lamb! Just bought a nice big Leg O' for din din recently. I also get the little T-Bone Lamb chops for grilling. They are great! A Lamb Burger is really nice, and a Herder Burger sounds superb!

 

[Greg Y]

I have one in 45-2-1/8 (45-70). It is a blast and everyone should have at least one.

 

[Gun Smith]

I went to a gun show last Winter/Springish, and a fellow was selling his Little Sharps, due to a complete right shoulder replacement. He either fell, or was thrown from his horse and landed on the shoulder. I think
it was a .45/70 (?), can't recall. Sure was a beautiful looking rifle. I used to own 5 different .45/70's, but my own right shoulder can't take much recoil anymore, so I sold all of them. I had a Ruger #1, a #3, and 3
Marlin levers. Fun guns all.

 

[Greg Y]

Here's mine....

 

[ISS]

I have said, many times: that the major difference between single shot rifles owners (especially Sharps) and heroin addicts is that they have treatment programs for heroin addicts.

 

[TimS]

I was told about an extremely long range match (1 mile) in western Montana, for the Sharps rifles. Does anyone know when and where this match takes place? I would be an observer. We were in the Big Timber factories a few years back, the folks were very kind. beautiful rifles.

That might be the Wasserbergper Mile. If so, it’s in Wyoming and put on by Kenny Wasserberger. Should be some videos on youtube . MVA made a special extreme long range tang sight for Kenny.

 

[ISS]

Ah, yes; that tang staff is 6.31" tall. I have its' twin on my 74 Long Range Express 50-90. Seating a paper patch 640gr semi spitzer about 1/8ths of an inch in the case mouth lets me load 120gr of Swiss 1 1/2 with a little compression.
The Billy Dixon Match is a mile as well. It replicates the Adobe Walls shoot out led on the Indian side by Quanah Parker at the height of the Medicine Shirt uprising. A Medicine Man made a shirt that he claimed would cause bullets to bounce off. Dixon proved that wrong when he took a 50-90 and shot Parker off his horse off a ridge at just over a mile. Dead on impact. Flight time is just over 4 seconds, iirc, and mid-flight trajectory is about 100 feet.

Billy Dixon is the only person to ever be awarded TWO Congressional Medals of Honor.

ISS

 

[DirtySteve]

Ah, yes; that tang staff is 6.31" tall. I have its' twin on my 74 Long Range Express 50-90. Seating a paper patch 640gr semi spitzer about 1/8ths of an inch in the case mouth lets me load 120gr of Swiss 1 1/2 with a little compression.
The Billy Dixon Match is a mile as well. It replicates the Adobe Walls shoot out led on the Indian side by Quanah Parker at the height of the Medicine Shirt uprising. A Medicine Man made a shirt that he claimed would cause bullets to bounce off. Dixon proved that wrong when he took a 50-90 and shot Parker off his horse off a ridge at just over a mile. Dead on impact. Flight time is just over 4 seconds, iirc, and mid-flight trajectory is about 100 feet.

Billy Dixon is the only person to ever be awarded TWO Congressional Medals of Honor.

ISS

Tom Custer, George's brother won two....

 

[Gun Smith]

It dawned on me last night that I have shot a Sharps a few times many moons ago. It was a Repro of
the type 1859(?), .54 Caliber Sharps Breechloader, using paper cartridges. The gun belonged to my
shootin' buddy Russ, my Brother in law. He was the one who spawned my passion for firearms when
I was a fairly young kid. He made the paper cartridges for it. It was a hoot to shoot!