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Original '74 Sharps - Gunner500 - 07-02-2019
About all that's left for me to do is find an original, anyone know where a good clean, solid, honest and in good working order '74 may be for sale?
Prefer 45 cal, but will look at others too, round, half round or octagon is fine, as is the butt plate, double set triggers are a must, as is being unbubba'D or faked.
Thanks.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Kurt - 07-02-2019
There were a couple at the Q on the far west end of the range.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - parkergunz - 07-02-2019
(07-02-2019, 09:20 PM)Kurt Wrote: There were a couple at the Q on the far west end of the range.
He had an original 1877 Overbaugh on the table. One of the 46 made by Sharps. I did not bother to ask if it was for sale.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Kurt - 07-02-2019
I saw that rifle also and I didn't ask the Lady if I could pick it up
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Gunner500 - 07-02-2019
Thanks men, maybe I need to attend a match for more than one reason.
I have studied the obvious fakes on a few of the auction sites over the last few days.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Kurt - 07-02-2019
I never buy a rifle unless I have it in my hands first.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Gunner500 - 07-02-2019
You bet Kurt, plus, I have a couple pretty good Bulldogs guiding me along to make sure I don't mess up ; ]
One rifle is a beautiful, used to be bull barreled 44-90 SBN that all it ever needed was to be left alone, that one made me kindly sick.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - Gunner500 - 07-18-2019
Well, Lady Luck has smiled on a hard working cow man, I'm very happy to report that a very nice 1869 Sharps 45-110 now calls this farm home, it's a Bridgeport factory conversion, complete with '74 breech block, triggers and hammer, a nice 30" near #1 heavy octagon Bridgeport marked barrel with the Old Reliable stamp still has really nice rifling.
It has a full buck horn rear sight and some sort of silver coin of the day fashioned into a nice blade front sight.
I immediately took the rifle to RDNCK's place for a thorough examination, he suspected it had a broken firing pin, after an inspection, it indeed did, he turned me a new firing pin out on his lathe from good bar stock, it is now a two piece firing pin setup, he also had an original set trigger screw from his stash, installed and adjusted with absolutely no creep on the front trigger at firing.
He also cut me a pile of patches, probably three or four hundred, then gave me a David Mos 45 cal round nose paper patch mold that throws a 506gr bullet with 16 to 1 alloy, the rifle is shooting dead to the sights out to 300 yards so far with 1F powder, those old dead guys and RDNCK sure as hell knew/know what they were/are doing.
Arkansas has an early doe only private land modern gun hunt this year, I'm going to put this old boomer back to work on one or two.
Thanks for all you done RDNCK, I appreciate it greatly,
Gunner
RE: Original '74 Sharps - rdnck - 07-18-2019
Glad I could help. It was really a privilege to work on that old honest to goodness buffalo gun and get it up and running. If only it could talk. I have had that screw for about forty years--somehow I knew it would come in handy some day. Congratulations on a splendid rifle and a superb piece of history. Shoot straight, rdnck.
RE: Original '74 Sharps - pacecars - 07-18-2019
Pics man! We need pics!