Shrapnel, I would have stopped at Shiloh but was pressed for time (my brother believes still in the blitzkrieg approach to everything) and not really there for Sharps '74s, or any Sharps for that matter. Main interest was getting a Win 1885 so I can put a couple of mine out to pasture; they are getting too pricey and scarce to do load experiments on 'em or take 'em out in the baldies (which out here are the pedregadas==stonies). If we'd been on my lazy-ass schedule, I'd definitely have stopped at Shilo.
Hammer guns can "jar off" the sear notch. Older designss don't have any safety device to keep them from firing. I suspect the shooter of that '75 may have had the trigger set or adjusted too light. But he did the main thing RIGHT --controlled that muzzle.
