New Sharps

[drcook]

Here is my new Sharps. It is chambered in .429 on a 45 2.6 case. Uses the same conceptual geometry
as a 40-65, ie: a gradual taper down to a "straight" neck portion. Similar in concept to a 42-100 Wesson
cartridge, but 45 2.6 cases are easier to come by, and it is easy to form them.

I am going to use this rifle to hunt a buffalo for the meat and hide. A good fat cow buffalo will make some
good eating. I am researching for a hunt for where I have to work for it. I cannot bring myself to shoot
an animal in a pasture who thinks you are bringing dinner out to them.

I just get plain wood on the Sharps, on my Stevens, I get better wood and finish the stocks myself. The
last pic shows some Stevens with the stocks as recieved and finished. The last receiver has the barrel
removed. Stevens have removeable barrels.

[Mossyrock]

Which fore end option is that?  That's EXACTLY what I want on the Shiloh I have in the pipeline.

[drcook]

I asked them if they would please simply round the foreend instead of putting a schnabel on it.

Seems you and I have a similar taste in guns. This is the 2nd with a round foreend. The middle gun
is a very heavy round barrelled 45-110. It was Kirk that suggested he put a round foreend on it and
got me onto the style.

the top is a 45-70 and the bottom a 45-90

Dave

[Mossyrock]

Thank you very much!  I am going to re-create the Sharps that was used in "Young Guns", Young Guns II" and "The Tracker".  It is a percussion-to-cartridge conversion, octagon-to-round barrel, with exactly that fore end.  I placed my order in August 2007, so, in theory  , my order should be coming to the top of the pile pretty soon!

[Fox Creek Kid]

I'm lost here. It's a 0.429 caliber? 

[Delmonico]

Takes an 0.429 bullet. After a trip through a die of course.

[drcook]

The barrel is a Douglas barrel. It's a 1:16 twist. I had Steve Brooks make a Creedmore type bullet mould
for me and will be able to use flat nose bullets that were designed for the .444 marlin for hunting, maybe.
It's a lot of powder to stick behind a 300 gr bullet. I might have another flat nose mold made when
the time comes. Dave Manson of Manson Reamers ground the reamer for me.  I thought it would be
neat to hunt a buffalo with a Sharps that was chambered in a cartridge that I designed. So as soon as
CH4D gets the dies done (they are backed up due to the buying frenzy) I will see how it does.

We all know the rifle will go bang, but will it hit anything is the question   

[Yellowhouse Sam]

Frenzy is an understatement.  They told me a 5 month wait for a 44-77 taper crimp die!

[Ace Lungger]

Howdy DR,
Just wanted to say you have some mighty fine looking rifles!!
ACE