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When the smoke cleared blowing North, there he lay, not a twitch, I walked the 30 over to him, already glass eyed!

Is it this one Gunner???

LOL, That's him KW, Thank you Sir. our buddy Sharpsguy told me how long the rifle was, I measured it against the top of that buck, the rifle liked a good three inches being as long as the deer, netting us over 51 inches of penetration, that buck was a 200 pound pig, an old and a spindly racked 6pt, he needed to be culled from the herd.

BTW KW, did you notice the forearm wear on that old Buffalo Rifle? it had to have traveled 10,000 miles on horseback to get that kind of wear across a saddle, not to mention the 1000's of rounds torquing off shooting sticks.

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I never could get the Sharps bug either. Now my late compadre had it bad. It was sad that he could not enjoy his several Sharps rifles in his later days.

For a big bore of the era I always leaned more toward them big St. Louis built mountain rifles! 😉

10-4, and yes, different strokes is what makes this sport so GREAT! damn, sad indeed on your old Bud, i'll dump my wares when I can't carry them in the woods to hunt, going to run the out of sight out of mind deal.

I found this opd photo from 2015 of my old childhood compadre and my oldest son,Postoak Cowboy here on the forum. Old friend lurked extensively on this forum, but never posted. He did post a bunch on the Sharps forum. He passed while I was at the Rocky Mtn National Rendezvous in July. I got to spend some good time with him before I left for the doins’.

Ok son has his Montana Roughrider Sharps in photo. ( Montana Roughrider always sounded to me like something you bought outta one of them little machines in a truckstop restroom) LOL! But ot is a very nice and well built rifle. 45 x 2 1/10" ctg.

The other three Sharps in the pic belonged to Compadre.



Photo made up in his old stone ranchhouse.

Cool stuff KW, bet your old Bud lived a hell of a life!

We got in a bunch of schidt together. We were both born in the same year. But I was born in January and he December. So we were almost a year apart. We met when we moved back to Austin in 1969.

Yeah, and as your Son and me were busy minding the grill, coolers and keeping the smoke lit, we'd git to hear about ALL of it, from both of you, what a fun weekend that would have been.

LOL. His mom was a hoot. She taught me how to gut and skin a deer!

Damn, sounds like quiet a girl!

HIs mom had a twin brother killed in Italy during the war. He was quite the relic hunter. Found two old rifles in cave on Pedernales river. One got tore up as a toy! Here’s the other. Late German Jäger!

Damn, You're going to need to live to 250 years old to get all the fun outta that stuff! ; ]

Savages!



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i dont get bored much!!

OK, that's just not fair.

Yep, Don for the win!!

Hey, what’s the Name of your Gun Store ?
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I’ll have to turn in my Loony card !


Jerry

yep all rifles are fun old and new ,i may hunt some with a Ruger #1 i reload for and hunt deer with. if your bored try Archery that is a worth while challenge target and hunting.

Dangit Loggah, you're supposed to put "WARNING DROOL ALERT, GO GET SLOBBER BIB" before you post pics like that!