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C Sharps 1874
08-10-2019, 07:35 PM,
#11
RE: C Sharps 1874
Hey Mike,

My new rifle tapers to 1.210" at the muzzle, don't know the weight, don't have any scales in the house, but, at 32"s it feels every bit as heavy as my 30" 16lb bull barrel #1 Sporter 45-110.

I'm going to shoot it tonight with the 750gr grease groove hunting load I use in my 11.5lb 50-90 hunting rifle, it fires the bullet at 1365 fps, this new rifle with the longer barrel fires it at 1383 fps with a 9 fps extreme spread, i'll find out at dark thirty tonight if it's going to shoot this load.

After putting this 750gr grease groove bullet through 8 or 9 feet of bedded 1800lb Eland bull i'll never roll paper for my 50's, they're just straight hunting rifles to me.
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08-10-2019, 09:27 PM,
#12
RE: C Sharps 1874
Gunner, That sounds like a #2 Heavy barrel, about the same width as my gun's. (I carefully measured by rifle's barrel width at the muzzle with a yardstick.) My hunting .50/90 is my Gemmer that weighs only 9 pounds. Maybe that's why I seem to favor slightly
lighter bullets... Good luck with yours. Shoot sharp,
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08-11-2019, 12:22 PM,
#13
RE: C Sharps 1874
We need pics of course. Sounds like fun! I had a roller in .50-70 and it was a hoot to shoot. I need to get an 1874 in a .50-90 to try out. Maybe a Rough Rider with a 28 inch standard 1/2 round barrel should make around a 10 lb gun
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08-12-2019, 04:04 PM,
#14
RE: C Sharps 1874
10-4 Mike, it may very well be, I found out last night it loves Goex and Swiss FG powder under my 750gr grease groove bullet from a Steve Brooks mould, I will now get the sights correlated out to 400 yards for hunting.

Bet that 9lb Gemmer packs a double wallop in more ways than one ; ]

pacecars, posting pics is well above my i.t. paygrade, if you'll pm me a cell number I can fire you over one via text number.
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08-13-2019, 08:33 AM,
#15
RE: C Sharps 1874
Pic coming to you pacecars.
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08-13-2019, 08:50 AM,
#16
RE: C Sharps 1874
Here is Gunner500’s .50-90
[Image: 8-B2-BD6-E4-B4-C3-41-C1-B2-AF-CF31-E699-D243.jpg]
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08-13-2019, 08:55 AM,
#17
RE: C Sharps 1874
[Image: EC90421-D-5110-4068-BDD7-51077-E60-F1-BF.jpg]
The 750gr grease groove bullet it loves, before and after penetrating 9 feet of bedded bull eland, .338 cal partition for scale.

Impressive performance
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08-13-2019, 09:07 AM,
#18
RE: C Sharps 1874
Thanks for posting the pics pacecars, hope I'm not muddying up Caprocks thread too much, this C-Sharps with standard wood and colors is a no bones #3 Sporter hunting rifle, maybe it can give some folks here an idea of what they may be looking for or may want to have built.

I was more than happy to see this new rifle shot my hunting weight 50-90's bullet with less than one inch 5 shot accuracy, I don't have to buy another mould! Big Grin
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08-13-2019, 10:36 AM,
#19
RE: C Sharps 1874
I guess Shiloh would call that a #3. C. Sharps Arms lists it as a Hartford Sporting Rifle which I find to be a much more descriptive title. And that does look like a #2 Heavy barrel. Here's a picture of my "Hannah," a .44/77 with a #2 barrel. I have a twin to Hannah in .50/90. Actually, I've done more and better shooting with a .50/70 than I have with the .50/90, although I have taken deer and bear with the .50/90 but have never hunted with a .50/70... Maybe that can be fixed...


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08-13-2019, 10:47 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-13-2019, 10:48 AM by Mike.)
#20
RE: C Sharps 1874
Now I found the pictures of my .50/90 with the #2 barrel, so I can at least show you the right rifle... Here it is with a couple of the paper patch loads using bullets from the KAL mould. After this picture was taken, I sent the forearm back to C. Sharps and had the pewter nose cap added to the forearm.


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