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New Member - everetto - 08-28-2018
Greetings All, first post here, thanks for having me. I am located in central New Mexico and here is some brief background info - my brother and I owned numerous Shiloh rifles back in the day (along with many other cowboy guns), and as life changed we kind of moved away from that for a while. I am glad to say we are back again and have started loading again. We currently have a good mix of multiple makes of Sharps replicas, some 73 Winchesters, a Henry replica, and some nice SAAs. I have an incoming 34 inch 16 lb Shiloh which I am very anxious to see, it should arrive this week. I also recently acquired a beautiful Freund Sharps built by Richard at Schuetzen Rifle Co, and I am having him build me another which will be a 50 90. As most of you know his Freund rifles have most if not all of the Freund improvements and I am fascinated by these!
RE: New Member - Fogman01 - 08-29-2018
Glad to hear you are not afraid of the big rifles like the 50-90. What kind of shooting do you do?
RE: New Member - everetto - 08-29-2018
(08-29-2018, 12:14 AM)Fogman01 Wrote: Glad to hear you are not afraid of the big rifles like the 50-90. What kind of shooting do you do?
At this point I am strictly shooting for fun. I owned a Big 50 years ago, and the one that is being built for me now is probably a year out. But, the incoming 16 pounder is a 45 120 so I should be shooting that soon. Hopefully over here on this forum I won't get a bunch of flack for trying to own and shoot a 45 120!
Besides, I have three 45 70s, so the 45 120 is just to have something a bit different than the rest of my collection.
RE: New Member - Don McDowell - 08-29-2018
You may want to consider tuning that 120 up, and heading to the Whittington Center for the BPTR nationals and shoot it in the Tollefson class.
RE: New Member - everetto - 08-29-2018
(08-29-2018, 10:11 AM)Don McDowell Wrote: You may want to consider tuning that 120 up, and heading to the Whittington Center for the BPTR nationals and shoot it in the Tollefson class.
Well, I am in the neighborhood.......
RE: New Member - Fogman01 - 08-30-2018
No flack from me - I like big rifles. I used my 50-90 on a buffalo and I have a 45-110 with a 30" sixteen pound bull barrel and a full length MVA scope. I am trying to get it shooting well enough with paper patch that I can use it at 1000 yards. My "Tollefson" rifle. I thought I'd never want to shoot silhouettes or long range but now I go to a monthly silhouette match and I like the 1000 yard matches a lot. I will be going to the NRA Creedmoor in Raton in Oct. I have a 45-100 for the matches.