The .44-77

[Kurt]

After getting sight settings for the rifle I will use for thr match here at Baker I pulled the .44-77 Hartford hunting rifle out and emptied 50 cases using the barrel sights and started on the 225 yard bucket and ended on the 828 yard buffalo. I think it's time I put a globe front and tang rear sight on this rifle and see what it will really do.
After a couple shots getting on the target that rifle will stay on target.
When I got to the Buffalo 8 for 8 and they where in the white or just a short way out of the white.
The winds are blowing 20 mph plus here when I shot the .44-77 using a 485 gr round nosed PP bullet of the original profile Sharps bullet.
The torque is a little heavy with the straight grip wrist but I'm impressed the way it shot.

Kurt

[rdnck]

There ain't nothing wrong with a 44-77 OR barrel sights. In fact, I find it easier to get on a target with barrel sights than with a globe and tang. What's more, I frequently shoot better groups with the barrel sights than I do with tang and globe target sights. Not always, but when I want to demonstrate to a bolt gun shooter why I use a Sharps, I always use barrel sights.

I had a guy in here three days ago with a scoped Remington 700 in 308. Beyond 100 yards, the Shiloh 45-70 Roughrider OWNED the Remington. Granted, the guy was not a candidate to shoot on our Palma team--he hit the pig silhouette at 327 yards once out of 8 shots. I hit it three out of three, then shot the gong at 410, and hit it four in a row. He asked me if I could hit the turkey, and I hit it on the second shot. I have a 20 inch square gong at 504 yards and he wanted me to try that. I missed it just off the right edge at 3 o'clock twice in the same hole, and changed my sight picture slightly and hit it two in a row just above the white center at 12 o'clock, and quit shooting. I asked the guy if he wanted to try the longer targets, and he declined to shoot anymore.

The rifle has a Lawerence low notch rear barrel sight and a copper penny front. The load was a 511 grain paper patched bullet out of a Brooks mold over 71 grains of KIK 2f powder and a CCI BR2 primer. 13 shots, no wiping and no blow tube, just blow a couple of breaths up the breech out of your mouth, load and shoot.

Man, I love these rifles!

[Don McDowell]

For a gong match barrel sights are the way to go, definitely more fun.

[rdnck]

For a gong match barrel sights are the way to go, definitely more fun.

Don, you really oughta see this thing shoot. We have to figure out how to get together in the near future. FWIW, if you pay Bob a visit, you come within 50 miles or less from my place, and I have a 500 yard range in my back yard. Think about it. Shoot straight, rdnck.