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Welcome to the Campfire, and to the small group of BPCR loonies who hang out here.
ET may be our unofficial Grand Poobah because he shoots an original Sharps, and it doesn't get any cooler than that!
Paul But kin he shoot? It?
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That's a classy set up. But now I have to get a bandolier to keep up with you. Guess it never ends. Life is good.
I own hunting land in a swamp here in Mississippi that is getting over run with hogs. A couple of my shootig buddies from Texas are coming to help me get after the things in April. We plan to hunt them with our bufflers and SAA's. It should be a hoot. Come on down. Hi do, Mr. Dah. How do yew hunt them pigs? Catch'em live with dogs or shoot'em?
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I put my wife and my dog Rufas in hog suits and let them run around my stand with hog pee all over them and grunt. Then I shoot'em with a cannon. It works every time it works.
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Welcome to the Campfire, and to the small group of BPCR loonies who hang out here.
ET may be our unofficial Grand Poobah because he shoots an original Sharps, and it doesn't get any cooler than that!
Paul But kin he shoot? It? I shoot it well enuff to have a moose and a buffler on its list of victims.
Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish! ![[Linked Image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/EvilTwinMar/Sabretooth-1.jpg)
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I haven't spent much time on the paper with my Sharps rifles, I usually check them for "MOR" not "MOA" which means "Minute of Rabbit". The first is an original 50-70 that does "MOR" easily. More fun than paper. Speaking of Paper, I am in the process of getting another original buffalo rifle to get to "MOR". I have been able to shoot a few deer, 1 cow and 1 buffalo with it, but the grouping is not as jorgeI has shown. It is in the hands of Kirk Bryan at Shiloh Rifles in Big Timber, MT. He is getting a mould made so we can make some paper patch bullets for it and get it to shooting at it's full potential, maybe even "MOR"... ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/100_1862.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/100_0693.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/100_0353.jpg)
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The Cooper is a treasure!!
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A 50 cal rabbit rifle. I like that fellar and have never even heard of him till now. But, he deserves or should wear a hat with a little more class.
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Welcome to the Campfire, and to the small group of BPCR loonies who hang out here.
ET may be our unofficial Grand Poobah because he shoots an original Sharps, and it doesn't get any cooler than that!
Paul But kin he shoot? It? I shoot it well enuff to have a moose and a buffler on its list of victims. Jes' one shot is gud shooten'.
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I haven't spent much time on the paper with my Sharps rifles, I usually check them for "MOR" not "MOA" which means "Minute of Rabbit". The first is an original 50-70 that does "MOR" easily. More fun than paper. Speaking of Paper, I am in the process of getting another original buffalo rifle to get to "MOR". I have been able to shoot a few deer, 1 cow and 1 buffalo with it, but the grouping is not as jorgeI has shown. It is in the hands of Kirk Bryan at Shiloh Rifles in Big Timber, MT. He is getting a mould made so we can make some paper patch bullets for it and get it to shooting at it's full potential, maybe even "MOR"... Dang!! Thel'ms FINE looking rafleguns!! Man oh live, Bro. Dah!! Jus thing og that good ol' sulferic odiferous smell?? YYYeEEEEE HHAAAAAAAAA............. 
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These felars around here wrap their bulets in cigarette papers or something. I guess they do that to get more smoke and be cooler. Can't imagine what ET felt like when he drew down on his buffler with the old rifle. Just "WOW". Maybe one day........
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I won't speak for ET but I was thete to witness it and I can tell you it was a memory of a lifetime, returning that old warrior to where it started over 150 years ago and taking another buffalo. jorge
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Well, you guys have done gone and lit a fire in me. I think there will be a buffler gun only season at Dragonhead next year. A bison probably won't come through but we'll be ready if it does. Thanks for the inspiration.
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The Cooper is a treasure!! It is far from retired, being born in 1877 and still going strong some 134 years later... ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/100_0343.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/115_1506.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/114_1450.jpg)
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Question for ya Shrapnel!! Does loading a BN blackpowder case present any probs peculiar to that breed??? I have heard several guys say loading a 44-90 is a nightmare to get shooting right. And that Cooper is a 40-90 BN if I am not mistaken.
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It is a 40-90 and I have been able to get about 4 to 6 inch groups with it. I have left it with Kirk Bryan at Shiloh rifles to see if he can get it to shoot.
He called me and said that he was ordering a new bullet mould to cast paper patch bullets. Now we wait for the mould, cast some bullets, roll them in paper and then try our luck. He thinks we can get it shooting good.
I can't wait to get this done...
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I heard Dave Gullo got a 44-90 to shoot well enuff. One of my dreadful lusts is for a Sharps 44-90 hunting rifle. Curse me!!!!!!!
Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish!
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