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1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps?
02-21-2015, 12:50 PM,
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RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps?
I traveled to the gun shop which had the lightly used Uberti Sharps this morning. It has a round barrel with a black matte finish on the barrel, ladder sight. I found it to be rather short in length of pull for me, and when I set the sight for 600 yards, I had to lift my face off of the stock. This will not do. Quality did not look bad, the wood to metal fit was good laterally, but a bit proud of the metal. Trigger was nice, case coloring was decent on receiver, the crescent was a bit more pronounced than what the photos appeared to show, although not as extreme as some I have considered. I left the 'hold' on it, give it some more thought, but I was not ready to go with it this morning.
I am 6'3" with longish neck and long arms, is a relatively short length of pull a common feature of the Sharps? I am thinking that a HighWall with shotgun butt and cheekpiece might be a good thing. I could always put an extender/padded sleeve on if the LOP was too short.
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1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-19-2015, 01:06 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-19-2015, 03:32 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ironramrod - 02-19-2015, 03:56 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Semtav - 02-19-2015, 09:52 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by bobw - 02-19-2015, 10:30 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ironramrod - 02-19-2015, 11:31 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by rdnck - 02-20-2015, 08:38 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Mike - 02-20-2015, 10:34 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Martini2 - 02-20-2015, 10:41 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-21-2015, 07:29 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Gunlaker - 02-20-2015, 11:38 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Mike - 02-21-2015, 11:04 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-21-2015, 12:50 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Gunlaker - 02-21-2015, 12:51 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by bobw - 02-21-2015, 01:46 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Mike - 02-21-2015, 08:44 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-21-2015, 09:49 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by bobw - 02-21-2015, 10:14 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Mike - 02-21-2015, 10:51 PM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ironramrod - 02-22-2015, 11:01 AM
RE: 1885 High Wall or 1874 Sharps? - by Ed333 - 02-23-2015, 03:43 PM

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