[John Rogers]

Several years ago a couple fellows came out to our South Bay Rod & Gun Club with brand new 1853 Sharps chambered in 45-70 from the good folks up in Big Timber Montana and they had waited for over 3 years for their guns. Both had 6 boxes of full bore heavy duty hunting loads at $50 a box for 10 rounds. Their intent was to get deer and or elk up in the Northern CA mountains.

Soooo after 3 shots each BOTH could barely move their right arm at the shoulder and I went over to see if I could help. I was shooting my Sharps and a Rolling Block and had several target loads with 540 grain pure lead bullets, 68 grains of Goex FFG so I offered some for them to try and they both loved the black powder idea. One fellow got on the phone right then and ordered half a dozen boxes of black powder loads for hunting. They gave me ALL the boxes of their smokeless loads and when I looked at the price I nearly fainted! If I remember they paid $50 a box......so I put them all on Gunbroker at a 20% discount and they were grabbed by a hunter in Colorado in less than 2 hours! Great deal for me and a couple of new black powder shooters that were happy!
John Rogers the oldracer