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I have bought them off the rack during the Quigley shoot and driven from my house to Big Timber to pick them up on two occasions. Once for a Roughrider 40-70 SS, and once for a 45-110 Business Rifle. It is 1503 miles from my driveway to Shiloh, but I considered the 3000 mile round trips well worth it. No way I was going to put those rifles in the mail or UPS or Fed Ex. It IS a hoot to go to the range at Shiloh and hit everything you shoot at with your unfired Business Rifle and first time loaded cases. That is one hell of a rifle and has been to Africa with me twice.

Thank you. But the best part is, it works!
This rifle is build the way most don't like. Single trigger, Crescent buttplate, light weight barrel, bottle necked shell.
But I love this rifle. LOL.

Gunner I'm glad it worked out for you also.
I have put many pounds of lead and cases of powder through Calamity enough that it wore out the washboard reamer marks out of the bore. I lost count when we had a primer shortage back in the 90's. I kept track of the rounds shot through that rifle by numbering the primer bricks I only used in that rifle and that was in the low 20 bricks. I never hunted live game with it but it left a lot of round lead dots on the iron critters.

Heck, it’s just right then! We’re not all cut from the same mould so it’s set up for you. It looks like a wicked killer just sitting still.

All this .50 talk is making me want mine more.

You bet Kurt, I remember you saying before you had way North of 20 thousand rounds through that rifle, just fired a 4 shot 2 inch 200 yard group with my 50 bull gun the other day, pull it in snug, control the torque, and you'll be handsomely rewarded.

Agreed Beretzs, I don't know all the match rifle weight/spec rules, but, iirc Kurts rifle there may be a silhouette rifle, something about a single trigger and making weight, may have to be 12 lbs or less all up.

That damn SLOW clock pacecars.

We all have our favorite rifles and calibers we use for hunting. I favor the sharps and the Hawken for hunting. The two Sharps I use for hunting one is the .44-2-5/8 (.44-90bn) and the other is my favorite the .44-77 Hartford pictured earlier. The .44-90 will drop a meat bulll Bison with one shot and they react differently hit with the 90 over the .44-77 both using a 485 gr original Sharps bullet used in the original for the hunts.
Two bulls I took were shot between 150 and 200 yards and both were hit in the lung just above the heart a couple inches very close to the same spot and the .44-90 he only walked 50 yards and dropped. The one in the photo I hit at a ranged 158 yards just above the heart again. I tend to hold a little high at the rub spot where the elbow rubs the hide because I don't know how much hair is hanging below the chest where the heart is low in the chest. The bull in the photo with Carolyn and me I had to hit him twice, once at the 158 ysd standing and the second shot he was on a run and both shots hit three fingers apart and he stem managed to make it a couple 100 yards before he dropped. They are tough critters.
After one of the hunts we did some shooting at the silhouette targets that were setup on the Ranch and we moved back to 1585 yards to shoot at the iron Buff that was setup and I used the .44-77 with the barrel sights to duplicate the Billy Dixon shot at that distance and it took a 3-4 shots till I found a dark grass spot on the sand to hold for the wind that was blowing at a good clip, held about three targets into the wind and managed to connect with the .485 gr RN original profiled bullet.
One bull I had to make three shots with the .44-77 with the last shot behind the ear to finish him. I used the Hartford .44-77 with a the scope on it and when it was all over I swore never to use a scoped rifle for a hunt again.


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