C. Sharps arm

[mountainmen1969]

I am looking into buying one of their actions-1874 Sharps or 1885 highwall. Has anyone here used one of their actions to build a rifle? What was good about it what was bad about it? Feed back and/or pics would be great.             
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[Sgt.Jake]

  Mountainmen    I have at one time had  a number of different manufactures Sharps rifles, I still have the second one I ever purchased a C. Sharps 74. The first Sharps was purchased with my brother,a Shiloh 59/63 percussion,a lifetime ago when neither one of us could afford it alone.Then the C. Sharps 74 next was a Sile Sharps,a carbine,wish I had hung on to that one. Another Shiloh or two,even picked up a Pedersoli,not a bad shooter. I'm down to just the one Sharps rifle ,the C. Sharps. C. Sharps use Badger barrels and their receivers are milled from bar stock and not cast. When it comes to finish they are second to none and man does that rifle shoot. While it wasn't a barreled action,an off the rack ready to shoot rifle the same care was evident in it's manufacture.     Adios  Sgt.Jake

[Ranch 13]

C Sharps makes good stuff, but it seems to me the cost of their actions by themselves makes using them to build a rifle almost cost prohibitive. Would almost be better to buy a used rifle to teardown and rebuild? By the time you figure the cost of the action, then the price of a quality barrel, the chambering, the case hardening bluing, sight slot milling, stocks and finish, just let John and company do the work,might be the best route to take.

[Lone Oak]

I bought one of their '74 barreled actions in 1999 for $995. I used my own walnut for the butt stock and fore end but I believe getting a set from Treebone Carving would have been quicker. Inletting the action was a nice diversion from my usual muzzle loader building however! I have a total of ~$1200 in the rifle including the sights. It's a wonderful rifle and I'd get another C. Sharps w/o hesitation, but,  it'd be a finished rifle.  I see the action alone is now something like $1100 w/o a barrel so as Don said, the actions are cost prohibitive as far as I'm concerned.

Ted Kramer