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Cartridge.52-caliber (0.52" dia ... and it was one of the few designs to be successfully adapted to metallic cartridge use. The Sharps rifles became icons of the ...
The Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine was a sliding breech action carbine made by Sharps & Hankins Co. in the 1860s and designed by Christian Sharps. The gun is a rimfire .52 caliber and was made in Philadelphia in a quantity of about 8,000. [1] This firearm, patented on July 9, 1861 by Christian Sharps.
.56-52 Spencer.56-56 Spencer; ... .25-45 Sharps.25-21 Stevens ... Cartridge and reloading info can be found at Accurate Reloading This page was last edited on 14 ...
The most prominent of these cartridges was the .45-70 (pronounced “forty five seventy”), but common chamberings in 45 caliber included .45-70, .45-90, .45-110, and even a .45-120 offering that ...
Sharps rifle: The Sharps rifles were a series of single-shot, breech loading rifles made famous for their use by Hiram Berdan's 1st and 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters regiments. Utilizing a unique pelleted primer mechanism and paper cartridges , the Sharps could fire a .52 caliber bullet three times faster than a muzzleloading rifle.
Produced a variant of the M1859 Sharps carbine: ca. 3,000 .52 caliber Sharps carbines. Marks, “Robinson Arms Co.” Selma Naval Foundry & Ironworks (Selma Arsenal & Gun Works) Selma, Alabama: 1861 Iron plating, Brooke rifled cannon, ironclad ships: over 70 Brooke rifles Shakanoosa Arms Mfg. Co. Rifles Shelby Iron Company: Shelby, Alabama ...
Reproductions of the paper cartridge Sharps 1863 Rifle, the metallic cartridge 1874 Sharps Rifle, [6] and Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 are manufactured today for use in hunting and target shooting. A number of companies, among them Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company and C. Sharps Arms Co. Inc., both of Big Timber, Montana , and the Italian ...
The .50-90 Sharps is similar to the .50-100 Sharps and .50-110 Sharps cartridges. All three use the same 2.5-inch (64 mm) case, the latter two being loaded with more grains of black powder. All rifles made for the .50-90 Sharps should be able to use the .50-110 and .50-100 cartridges due to the case dimensions being nearly identical.