long range hardware

**brian** · March 17th, 2009, 06:07 PM

thought i'd step up to some long range shooting.....or at least the ability to do so.
so in my world that means 32'' of blued octagon barrel with nearly a half inch worth of bore, in front of a falling block, which neatly hides a brass cartridge housing 70grns of oh so sweet black powder and finally capped by 405 grns of hard lead. all of this can speel only one thing.
SHARPS!
as the indians said "shoot today, kill tomorrow".
i'm stoked.

anybody seen any buffalo?

at 1000 yards the bullet will roughly have a 100 foot, yes 100 feet, not inches, drop.

**Tomcat088** · March 17th, 2009, 07:13 PM

BEAUTIFUL rifle! I've never shot one before, but they're amazing rifles. I'd love to see one get taken long range besides "quigley down under".

**autotech6506** · March 17th, 2009, 07:41 PM

45/70? Thats a nice piece of history there.

**Fr0sty** · March 17th, 2009, 08:47 PM

Are you going to put on a synthetic stock? Maybe a nice 8x32x56 Sightron? One last question, where do you put the mag?

Yea that should be good

**cms81586** · March 17th, 2009, 09:11 PM

A guy named Loren Brown was shooting a blackpowder .45-70 Sharps at the Reade Range during a 600yd F-class match with success a few years ago.

CMS

**brian** · March 17th, 2009, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by Fr0sty

Are you going to put on a synthetic stock? Maybe a nice 8x32x56 Sightron? One last question, where do you put the mag?

Yea that should be good

a syn stock would make cleaning it easier. maybe a rubber butt pad to reduce the insane recoil too.
i come factory equipped with glass, no need for any more.
it has a non removable one round factory installed mag.

the 100 yard range seems too short now.

**Pukindog** · March 17th, 2009, 11:47 PM

Brian,

Here is my long range rifle. C. Sharps Arms model 1874 "Boss Gun". Grade I
.45-90 Sharps. 34" Badger hand cut rifling, hand lapped barrel, 1" heavy octogon barrel, presentation Grade wood, Even had my initials engraved on the receiver.
500 gr. lead paper patched bullet in front of 85 gr.Fg. This is a true 1000 yard rifle. If you are going to shoot long range you need to replace that rear sight with one with alot more elevation.
Have fun, Jeff