Shiloh Sharps

[Tascosa Joe]

Cool, Enjoy.  I set mine up to look like an early, rifle on the buffalo range.  If I had a do over, I would get a shotgun butt.   The military butt plate is very neat but it can be a bit painful.

[Coal Creek Griff]

Cool, Enjoy.  I set mine up to look like an early, rifle on the buffalo range.  If I had a do over, I would get a shotgun butt.   The military butt plate is very neat but it can be a bit painful.

I'd be interested in seeing pictures of your rifle too.  What caliber/configuration did you choose?  I have one in the pipeline which I'm planning to set up similar to yours...

CC Griff

[Buckaroo Lou]

In my humble opinion I don?t think a metal shotgun butt plate feels any less harsh than a metal crescent butt plate. What tames the recoil for me is the weight of the rifle and load configuration. I mainly shoot targets and occasionally hunt with my sharps rifles and whitetail deer and feral hogs have been the largest game I have taken. If I had the opportunity to hunt larger game I would but the opportunity has never presented itself, at least not with the sharp?s rifles. I have rifles with both shotgun style butt stocks and full crescent, and I haven?t found either one preferable over the other, but then I keep my loads in a comfortable range and they are .45-70 caliber rifles and I haven?t spent all day shooting BPCR competition. I always feel the recoil regardless of the style of butt plate when shooting from the bench, but when hunting I never notice it.

[Ranch 13]

 For hunting purposes and on the occasion when you shoot from offhand and sitting I prefer the military butt. The problem with those come when you go into some match shooting and most of the shots if not all are from prone, the drop in the stock and that military butt will be absolutely painful after a short while.

[Pitspitr]

In my humble opinion I don?t think a metal shotgun butt plate feels any less harsh than a metal crescent butt plate.

When I was younger and considerably thinner I would have agreed with you. I'd hear other guys complaining about crescent butt plates and think that they must have been whimps or something. A couple of years ago I took up shooting my T/C Hawkens and Pedersoli Sharps again after something of a hiatus. After a few shots I noticed that the sharp end of the butt plates were digging into my shoulder. At first I was like, "What the heck? These guns never used to hurt this way!" Then I realized I'm a lot bigger than I used to be. Now I think that whether crescent butt plates are comfortable or not, has a lot to do with how they fit you.

[Yellowhouse Sam]

The 50-70.....a pistol round!!!?   The round has enough go for about anything on this continent!  No its trajectory doesn't match the big 44 and 45 rounds but it is gaining in popularity as folks have re-discovered how important the round was in the Indian Wars and on the range.  Very enjoyable to shoot and load for and if you just gotta have more oomph you can load 75gr of OE 1 1/2 behind a 470 or so PPB.

[Drydock]

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.     I spend a fair amount of time over there, and a few of those boys like to hang out over here as well.  It's well accepted that the .50 Gov't is a fine field round.  Not ideal for target shooting, but that's a matter of recoil, it's certainly accurate enough!

[Pitspitr]

The 50-70.....a pistol round!!!?

.577 Now there's a pistol round!

[Yellowhouse Sam]

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.     I spend a fair amount of time over there, and a few of those boys like to hang out over here as well.  It's well accepted that the .50 Gov't is a fine field round.  Not ideal for target shooting, but that's a matter of recoil, it's certainly accurate enough!

Yepper!  I spend about all my time over there on Shiloh forums.

[Drydock]

Well, got the letter saying they have my money, I get to live.  Now the last few weeks of waiting.

[Pistol Blaine]

DryDock  Have  Shiloh use the slower twist (1X30 I think)  Easier on the shoulder with 450 to 500+ bullets.  My Military rifle is just about perfect for target and hunting with this twist rate.  You really will not like shooting those very heavy bullets much at all.  450 525 grain bullets will put down any North American animal.  Good target and gong shooting round.

[Drydock]

Kirk advised the 1/26 as it will shoot everything well that you can think to stuff in it.  That's also the same rate in my present carbine, and that has been very comfortable for me to shoot with 450s, and quite accurate at the Musters I've shot with it.

Rifle has been delayed, (go figger) was hoping I'd have it for the Muster, hopefully in the next month or so.

[Ranch 13]

 I have an original 74 50-70 that shipped from the factory in October of 72, it has a 26 inch barrel and a 26 inch twist.

[Yellowhouse Sam]

You might even consider getting a 50 2.0.....thats right, a 2 inch case and it was an original  chambering.   Probably give 8-10 grains more powder capacity.

[Drydock]

Nah, I'm set up for .50 Gubmint, .50 Gubmint it shall be!

[Drydock]

Called Shiloh to update my contact info, they said the rifle was on the final assembly rack, should be ready in a week or two.   

[Tascosa Joe]

Cool

[Drydock]

Lucinda called, it's on the way!

[Coal Creek Griff]

Lucinda called, it's on the way!

I'll meet you at your house to check it out!

[Coal Creek Griff]

Looking back at the posts, did you order this in January, 2018?  Is that a 34 month wait? I was hearing closer to 18 months...