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Shiloh #3 Sporter 45-120 SS
06-26-2019, 09:48 PM,
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RE: Shiloh #3 Sporter 45-120 SS
My first reproduction Sharps was a .45-3-1/4 and it was a great shooter. It shot as well as all the Sharps and Stevens rifles I have now. It gets your attention with 118 to 120 grains of powder pushing a 560 gr bullet.
It is not a caliber for the timid but it is a very accurate caliber if you can handle the torque and recoil.
Gunner load that shell with your postell cast with some antimony in the alloy and it will floor any critter you aim at and I doubt that you will recover a bullet in one. You dont need a hard bullet to hold the lands. One roll of no lead solder that is 95% tin 5% antimony in 18# lead is what I found that 3-1/4 shot well. It will pass through both shoulders and keep on going.
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06-26-2019, 10:27 PM,
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RE: Shiloh #3 Sporter 45-120 SS
(06-26-2019, 07:43 PM)rdnck Wrote: Quit telling these guys how much fun you are having with that 45/ 3 1/4. They're all gonna want one! Shoot straight, rdnck.

LOL, I hear ya rdnck, old Elmer sure liked em too.
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06-26-2019, 10:32 PM, (This post was last modified: 06-26-2019, 10:34 PM by Gunner500.)
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RE: Shiloh #3 Sporter 45-120 SS
(06-26-2019, 09:48 PM)Kurt Wrote: My first reproduction Sharps was a .45-3-1/4 and it was a great shooter. It shot as well as all the Sharps and Stevens rifles I have now. It gets your attention with 118 to 120 grains of powder pushing a 560 gr bullet.
It is not a caliber for the timid but it is a very accurate caliber if you can handle the torque and recoil.
Gunner load that shell with your postell cast with some antimony in the alloy and it will floor any critter you aim at and I doubt that you will recover a bullet in one. You dont need a hard bullet to hold the lands. One roll of no lead solder that is 95% tin 5% antimony in 18# lead is what I found that 3-1/4 shot well. It will pass through both shoulders and keep on going.

10-4 Kurt, and agreed, this is my second 120, the first shot equally as well, my gov bullet alloy is near 10-1, old Buddy tested some I sent and said they Brinnell a scooch harder than 15, out of the blue he called one year later and said the alloy is still holding it's hardness, those lab coat guys are strange sometimes.Big Grin

It's the exact same alloy I used to drive that 750gr greaser 8 or 9 feet up into that bedded Eland bull with my 50-90 so I know it's not brittle, that bullet swelled to a .777" nose coming from a .338" meplat, held it's shank length really well and penetrated dead straight.
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