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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.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load ...
Derived from the .50-60-400 Joslyn, the cartridge was developed after the unsatisfactory results of the .58 rimfire cartridge for the Springfield Model 1865 rifle. The .50-70 Government cartridge used the Benét internal center-fire primer design and became the official cartridge of the U.S. military in 1866 until being replaced by the .45-70 Government in 1873.
This was not a significant problem at the time of introduction, as the .45-70 was a fairly flat-shooting cartridge for its time. Shooters of these early cartridges had to be keen judges of distance, wind and trajectory to make long shots; the Sharps rifle, in larger calibers such as .50-110 Winchester, was used at ranges of 1,000 yards (910 m ...
The .50-140 Sharps, also known as the .50-3 1 ⁄ 4" Sharps, is a black-powder rifle cartridge that was introduced in 1884, as a big game hunting round. [1] It is believed to have been introduced for the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle. [2] The cartridge is very similar to the .500 Black Powder Express. [3]
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wildcat rifle cartridge Q44232118.50 Remington Navy: American rimfire handgun cartridge Q4545382.50-110 Winchester: rifle cartridge Q158805.50-140 Sharps: cartridge Q44233322.50-60-400 Joslyn: American rifle cartridge Q158809.50-70 Government: rifle cartridge Q158810.50-90 Sharps: cartridge Q4545383.500 A-Square: cartridge Q4545385.500 Black ...