[John Rogers]

Well about the 45-150, about 5 or 6 years ago we had a fellow come out to our monthly muzzle loader match with a Sharps 45-150 which had been his grandfathers and he had hunted in Africa and some places in Europe with it and even killed a buffalo. The fellow and his brothers had a couple dozen cases a dozen bullets but no wads or powder or primers. Well, I had the black powder and found several wads in my large range box so it was suggested to try it out. The largest powder measure I have is 120 grains (have 70, 80, 90, 100, ETC) and one of the guys had his cap and ball revolvers so he had Cream of Wheat as no way we were going to load 140 grains of powder and manually put in several large rifle primers, loaded 120 grains of powder, topped off with Cream of Wheat, then a fiber wad. The 560 grain bullets were lubed and actually could be pushed into those cases fairly easily.

He got ready and everybody including half the shooters from the 300 yard range came to watch. He had to be shown how to drop the block after half cocking and then inserting the loaded round. Slammed the cocking lever home, cocked it and let fly! There was a huge boom, huge cloud of smoke and at least he hit the large hill we have as aa back drop. The rifle went up about 45 degrees and that was about the happiest person I had seen in years (since my daughter shot a 50 cal Desert Eagle)!
He shot the other 3 loads we had done for him and one of the other shooter had a go with one shot and then we cleaned the gun for him. It was a monster and I did NOT try to buy it.
John