What a rich, fascinating and cool hobby we have that ALL knowledge will never be gained, a 100% guarantee against boredom! ; ]
Sir Ron, i guess you're aware that unless specified by customer for a 5 or 7 degree all modern Sharps rifles have 45 degree chamber leade? any guesses from whence that came? you got it, the grand 458 Winchester Magnum, sadly, the main reason is iirc near 85 percent of new manufactured Sharps rifles will fire smokeless and jacked bullets, it's a liability/safety factor for the manufacturers.
