Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Picked up a Pedersoli a while back

A while back, I picked up a Pedersoli Sharps 1874 Sporting #3 in 45-70 from a good friend that needed some money. Haven't shot it yet, my bad! Came with all kinds of stuff... ammo, dies, brass, bullets, different disks for the front globe, vernier tang sight and his journal for it. Bunch of stuff. Nicely made and finished rifle. Excellent checkered walnut stocks, excellent case coloring and bluing, nice rifle. Have never seen a Shilo Sharps, heard they're even nicer! Need to get myself out and shoot it, too nice to just sit in the safe! Might have to go on a Bison hunt!

Should be a fun and challenging score.

Congratulations, you are about to enter the Dark Side.

While you can certainly use smokeless powder such as AA-5744, using Holy Black Powder is, IMHO, the only way to go.

I was first brought to the fold my shooting crossfireoops' Pedersoli and then having constant phone calls from Evil Twin.

Being able to hit what you can see out past 500 yards with iron sights with loads duplicating what the old Buffalo hunters used is a hoot.

A call to Powder, Inc LINK can have real BP delivered to your door at very reasonable prices.

Oh...yes, Shiloh Sharps are even nicer.

Ed

Planning on nothing but black powder for this one! I've been loading and shooting BP for years and cast all my muzzleloader projectiles. This is my first falling block, looking forward to it.

The Pedersoli Sharps have a good reputation, probably the best of the Eyetalians. I believe Brian Pearce said they were the only ones he'd trust with smokeless. They've also won some matches here, shooting against pricier American models.

Good snag.

Unfortunately, can't see crap anymore through the tang sight. Shooting the original sights much better so just listed the tang and globe sights in the classified section. It is fun to shoot and I did better than I thought I would!