50-70 Sharps Military Rifle

[Eric Johanen]

Boy's, I got real lucky on my swag filing in that rear site! Rough filed it yesterday. dropped the U and cut a new notch with a small V file. Planned to set it to final today on the range. Well, posted my target at 200 yards and settled in on the bench and using the Accurate Molds 51-465 with 74.0 grains of OE 1.5 fg it commenced hitting in the center of the black with a 6 O'clock hold. Getting to know how much front sight it needed I ended up with a group 5 inches vertical by 4.5 horizontal. Both the BACO 511-500 FN and the Accurate 51-465 are really shooting! I will not be changing these loads for a good long while! This military 74 shoots pretty good for that long un-beded forend. All that is needed now is to get the trigger puller to really screw his stuff down tight! I can see some steel banging in it's future.