Original '74 Sharps

[Gunner500]

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