Originally Posted by gunner500
Originally Posted by tmitch
Congrats on your retirement, I like your style! For my 50th birthday I bought myself a C. Sharps Arms '74 in, what else? The "Big Fifty" (.50 2 1/2").


SWEET, I have a C-Sharps 50-90 too, it's a 30" barreled eleven pound bruiser a man can carry and hunt with, 750 gr greasers at 1365 fps is a hellacious load, just put one through 9ft of bedded Bull Eland at 60 yards in Africa, smoked a big old blue black Sable Bull at 99 yards too. smile

Have been racking my brain ever since to come up with ANY smokeless fired cartridge shooting an expanding soft point bullet that would have penetrated that far, I keep drawing zeros.


You're a better man than I Gunner!! My .50 is what C. Sharps calls a "hunters carbine", 26" round tapered barrel, carbine butt (ouch). It weighs 3 pounds less than yours, it carries well but rears back some when I shoot it! After the first range session I ordered a lace on pad, which makes it a bit more tolerable. My load is a 515 gr flat point at about the same speed as yours, but I don't think I could handle 750 grs in my rifle! cry

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