44-77 and the Buffalo Runners

[Fogman01]

If you go back through the Julia past auctions (it's now on the Murphy's auction page: https://www.morphyauctions.com/auctions/past-auctions/ )you will see some actual buffalo rifles that auctioned in the last ten years. I made a picture book by cutting and pasting the auction announcements so I could look at what they actually had in use then. Longer than a 30" barrel cost more money so a lot were 30" barrels. After Hartford, the Bridgeports only had a silver forearm tip if you requested it. So rifles sent West from Bridgeport probably did not have that. I saw both military stock and shotgun stock; most of the big calibers, but not 45-120 or 50-140. Early ones looked like Sharps; later ones were seriously plain jane. I ordered a Shiloh 30" bull barrel, shotgun butt, plain straight wood stock, no silver forearm tip, 50-90 and killed my second buffalo with it.