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Thank you. It's a #1 Sporter in 40-65. Standard half-round at 30", 7 degree lead, pewter tip, extra fancy w/ AA, and steel butt plate. I've been considering a 50-70 or 90 for my next order.
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These things are worse Lays Potato Chips. You can’t have just one
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You bet 44, the real lmao's come from the bench when 705 grains of paper patched lead smacks 500 yard steel, it's a hell of a deal.
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I can heartily recommend the 50-90 as well. Mine is a Browning 1885 high wall BPCR and shoot it with a LBT 700 grain gas check flatpoint with AA 5744. Haven’t got anything with it yet but impressively accurate and a ball to shoot. That is a hell of a bullet GJN, I shoot it in an 1886 50-110 WCF over black powder, even at a leisurely 1241 fps it's a hell of a hammer, with the Smith Ladder sight, 200 yard steel is a piece of cake, now who would have ever thought iron sight lever action rifle shooting would have been so effectively easy and accurate?
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Dam Gunner I do Like the way you Think! Thanks Saddlering, sounds like You and i have been blessed by the same God!
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These things are worse Lays Potato Chips. You can’t have just one Damn right pacecars, You better be careful, I'm up to eight right now, that should cover it, let me see:??? 40-65 #1 Sporter30 inch half round 44-77 #3 Sporter 30 inch #1 heavy 45-70 #3 Sporter 30 inch standard weight 45-110 #1 Sporter 16 lb 30 inch bull barrel Original Bridgeport CT 45-110 #3 Sporter 30 inch #1 heavy 45-120 #3 Sporter 30 inch #1 heavy 50-90 #3 Sporter 30 inch #1 heavy 50-90 #3 Sporter 32 inch 16lb bull barrel Yessir, that'll cover it for me, coyotes to deer to cape buffalo from 5 to 500 yards.
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Lots of truth in this thread.
While I enjoy the modern sporting rifles as much as anyone, there's just something about casting bullets and burning the black stuff. Taking a bull in 2018 with my 45-90 was exceptionally gratifying. Having the help of Mr. Bagwell along the way has been a real blessing.
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Thank you. It's a #1 Sporter in 40-65. Standard half-round at 30", 7 degree lead, pewter tip, extra fancy w/ AA, and steel butt plate. I've been considering a 50-70 or 90 for my next order. I have that exact 40-65 thin-man, it's a hell of a shooter, you're going to love it.
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Lots of truth in this thread.
While I enjoy the modern sporting rifles as much as anyone, there's just something about casting bullets and burning the black stuff. Taking a bull in 2018 with my 45-90 was exceptionally gratifying. Having the help of Mr. Bagwell along the way has been a real blessing. Damn right, Sharpsguy has saved me a chit-ton of money, aggravation and general head butting a brick wall all along the way, he's a Sharps Rifle Dictionary!
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Glad to hear you're happy with it Gunner. I went back and forth with the contour. Heavy half-round vs the standard half-round. Changed to the standard at the last minute. Ohh, the things we agonize over sometimes. After humping it up some steep stuff last fall chasing a herd, better than 10 miles all told, I never wished for more weight! I guess we'll see in a few months if I made the right choice but I suspect you're spot on.
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Damn right, Sharpsguy has saved me a chit-ton of money, aggravation and general head butting a brick wall all along the way, he's a Sharps Rifle Dictionary! He's cost me chit-ton. Adding to the collection I mean. Joking of course. I was already there, he just helped me over the edge.
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I have learned a lot from him and Kenny Wasserburger
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Glad to hear you're happy with it Gunner. I went back and forth with the contour. Heavy half-round vs the standard half-round. Changed to the standard at the last minute. Ohh, the things we agonize over sometimes. After humping it up some steep stuff last fall chasing a herd, better than 10 miles all told, I never wished for more weight! I guess we'll see in a few months if I made the right choice but I suspect you're spot on. It'll be a shooter, and one thing about a little weight, it goes dead asleep when you lay it out in preparation for a shot, LOL on the edge, those guys have greased door mats ready to go when you show up!
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I have learned a lot from him and Kenny Wasserburger Love his Whatameal. I want a double with cheese please.
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I guess the 50-90 is sorta big.
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I guess the 50-90 is sorta big.
Dunno if you are joking or what, but it was the darling on the Buffalo prairies for most of the big hunt. It's nickname is the "Big Fifty". In one of the most famous shots ever made, Billy Dixon shot an Indian from nearly a mile away with one essentially ending the siege of the Second Battle of Adobe Walls where the Buffalo Hunters about 30 strong stood off a mixed contingent of Southern Plains Indians IIRC, about 2,000 in number.
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Nice rifle and revolver EE, yes, it's a hell of a cartridge Slim Jim, a 22 twist 50 firing 700 to 777 grain projectiles is a thing of beauty, pacecars has some pics I sent of mine with a recovered bullet after it went through 9 feet of a bedded Eland bull, I hit him in the right ham, skinner handed me the bullet from under the hid in front of the left shoulder, I ask PH what other smokeless expanding African cartridge would penetrate that far, NONE! he FLATLY stated.
Maybe pacecars will post those bullet and target pics too, it may help others that may be sitting on the fence thinking about a Big 50.
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Top pic is 4 at 400 yds and next is 5 at 500 yds I believe
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