Sharps rifle
- Thread starter kochie
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My dad used to have 3 of the Shiloh Sharps rifles. A 45-110, a 45-100, and a 40-65. He left one to each of his 3 boys in his will. Then the wicked stepmother sold them all behind his back after he got dementia. My older brother was able to buy back the 45-110 from the guy who bought it, but the others are long gone. They are such cool rifles. Dad used to load all the ammo so meticulously with real black powder, drop tubes, card wads, and his own cast bullets. The workmanship on those Shiloh's is second to none.
ISS
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They vary in size and distance at different matches. Your best answer will be typing "Quigley Rifle Match". They shoot steel plate targets. It is held in Forsyth, MT, and the closest target is a bucket (tribute to the movie shot) at close to 300 yards. The farthest is a life size Buffalo at half a mile.
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Target Info
The Quigley targets were designed using the Forsyth Rifle and Pistol Club philosophy that it's more fun to hit a target than miss it. The size relative to the distance make them very...
www.quigleymatch.com
COLT45SA
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Owned an Italian Sharps copy in .45-70 with a crescent butt with factory ammo. Its recoil never bothered me. Just roll with the recoil~! On the other hand recoil from an officer's model trap-door Springfield was so objectionable that that rifle went down the road shortly after I bought it. Had the Sharps for about 7 years and enjoyed shooting empty 55 gallon drums listening for the hits.
I still like the Sharps but cost of shooting these days has drawn me to the .22RF world.
COLT45SA
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I made my own .32-40 cartridges from .30-30s. Eazy-peazy~!!
COLT45SA
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The joke of the day is on me. First Sharps I ever saw was at a local gun show and it was love at first sight. It was a Quigley clone with engraved pewter hardware. Up until that point I had never spent $600 on a rifle and that kind of money I just wasn't ready or able to spend.
FNSafari
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Thanks, but I'm a proper head stamp cartridge user. Your suggestion in a pinch. It did come with some reformed 38-55 to 32-40 cases also. Tks
I messed around with those damn things for twenty odd years.....casting bullets, cutting patches, rolling paper patch, ordering moulds, even drove up to Forsyth Montana and shot a match on Mr Lee's place! Met lots of nice folks. But....the damn things plumb wore me out. With two herniated disc in my lower back from six years of football I couldn't any longer sit for hours at a time doing what was necessary. I sold the six Shiloh Sharps I had and now.....don't have to work so hard. All six were good shooters if you held hard! IMO...paper patch was the most accurate way to load and most consistent loading!
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