yes sir, they're hard to photograph because they stand real still but only for a few seconds at a time and then take off! I just got lucky.
hey smithlabs I showed a couple of old buffalo rifles in my post yesterday, just wandering if you had any in your collection, I think those are Sharps but I haven't really looked into those old rifles so I'm not very familiar with them.
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I have seen them, and they are blazing fast! It is amazing that a Texas Bigfoot could get this picture. :)
I looked at the picture, Interesting.
The guy that is preparing to shoot has a muzzle loader with a percussion style ignition.
The second man has what was supposed to be a sharps, but the proportions of the falling block mechanism are all wrong.The secondary problem is that this Man seems to be muzzle loading the breech loading Sharps. He does have the breech mechanism open, So he could be cleaning the sharps.
I have done some repair work on a Sharps here, so I am very familiar with that firearm. Incidentally, I have one very similar to the one being shot, if you make it up here, we can take that one to the Range!
:)>sir smithlabs! is that rifle you have a 50 caliber? That was the typical one they used for buffalo hunting?
My percussion rifle is in 45 Cal, but I have several in 50 Cal too.
The sharps was a 45-70 (45 Cal 70 grains of powder). When I hunt with this 45, I use 110 grain of powder.
:)>sounds kind of obsolete but I guess it fits your personality! lol.
It is a fine weapon, very accurate. Hits HARD, and when it is black powder season, that is what you need! I have a newer design that is even more accurate that I hunt with now, but I still trust that rifle!
These are my third tier assets for SHTF. I can make black powder, and keep these rifles running, long term.
:)>yeah yeah yeah..what's black powder made out of?
Saltpeter, carbon, and sulpher.
:)>