Sharps rifle

[El Matador]

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]

Good morning

Watching vidéos on YouTube, I see a lot of shooters with sharps or high walls of différent calibers shooting gongs at different distances. Can anyone give me the dimensions of the gongs and their shapes?
Thanks in advance.
I specify that I am from France

Cdt
Pascal17

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.

 

[clowdis]

Paschal,
This should help;

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]

Not really saying anything new here, but if you plan on shooting one much, stick with a 45-70 or a 40-65. Maybe 45-90. Already been mentioned that anything bigger than that, especially with a crescent butt plate ends up being more of a safe queen. Prolonged shooting can be painful without some padding!

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]

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.

I made my own .32-40 cartridges from .30-30s. Eazy-peazy~!!

 

[COLT45SA]

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]

I made my own .32-40 cartridges from .30-30s. Eazy-peazy~!!

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

 

[sacre]

They work as advertised....

 

[M14AMU]

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!