Home Forums Hunting & Shooting BPCR Took the new bullet out today for a trial run..

C'mon dudes, go ahead and let ET and Sharpsguy introduce ya to the DARKSIDE!!!!

Gunner

I have not been able to travel for fun in 3 years. This year the doctors said I could go out of state. My wife took me to Big Timber and we toured the Shiloh factory. When we got back to the show room she smiled and said" Well aren't going to order a rifle, that is why I brought you up here". About a year from September I will have a new Sporter #1 in 40 2.1 ( 40/65 Win). I knew I had a keeper when we married 36 years ago.

Steve

You did well Steve, and I don't mean the rifle.

Congratulations, Steve!

Steve--The 40-65 is a great caliber choice. You're really gonna like that one.

And to think it was I who encouraged sharpsguy to use a 40-65, from time to time. ;^)

Who says I use a 40-65? I said it was a great caliber choice, not that I used one.

That's very nice Steve, I was lucky enough to marry one of those too.

Gunner

...tundra member, in tall standing, of the flat earth society...

Ah HAH! He did encourage me to use one. He even left one here in Tejas to tempt me.

I took my new bullet out this morning also

Details Kurt!

It's a darn good shooter Woody!!

Fine deer rifle and paper puncher or driving nails through fence boards.

Kurt

Damn Kurt!! It appears that we have a certain degree of agreement with fine guns!!! I have my likings for Sharps Rifles and good flintlocks. My 50 cal. Lancaster

You guys are tougher and meaner than I am. I simply cannot shoot a flinter. I had a good left handed flinter made and tried my very best to learn to shoot it for over a year. All I succeeded in doing was to screw up my percussion shooting. After I got rid of the flinter, it took me six months to get back to where I was with my percussion Hawken. My hat's off to both of you.

I will say that my 58 caliber round ball Hawken is the best deer killing rifle I have ever owned. It puts them on the ground RIGHT NOW, and when they go down, they don't get back up. A good round ball traditional muzzleloader is hard to beat.

Actually Bill, a good flinter is the bestest marksmanship traing aid one could get. IF you have a deficiency in your shooting technique, a flinter will tell you fast and without regard to your dignity and ego. I mended my ways on follow through due to my flinter allowing me to look like a total idiot. I worked on the problem and improved. Damn near as much fun as a Sharps.

Et,

Sometimes one has to go back to the basics to break up the rhutt one gets in. This one is a .54.


I will agree with the marksmanship training aid one could gets; you learn the importance of follow through.

Anyway you can photoshop that man purse thingy outta the pic?

LOL, thats what he carries his balls in, those straps fit over the shoulders like a pair of suspenders.

Gunner

A Warbag/possibles bag wuz carried by the absolute baddest knuckledragging badasses who ever skinned a head The Sharps Men who came much much later were cut from much the same cloth but with benefit of cartridge rifes