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Jeff Higgins Jeff Higgins is online now
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Tabby showed you guys the rifles, so I'll show you what we load them with.



Left to right we have the .45-2.1, or more commonly known as the .45-70, loaded with three different bullets. The first is the old Lyman 410 grain flat nose, a wonderful hunting bullet in these old guns. It's loaded over 53 grains of Goex FFg and 7.0 grains of Alliant Reloder 7 for a muzzle velocity of just over 1400 fps from my original Ballard Pacific, manufactured in about 1884. I've taken my biggest mulie to date with that rifle and load.

The next two are target loads, the first being the RCBS .45-500 BPS, a 500 grain spitzer, loaded over 65 grains of Swiss 1 1/2 Fg. I won the Oregon Territorial Long Range Championship some years ago shooting this load in my C. Sharps Arms '75 Sharps. The next is the same load, but substituting the 540 grain Jones Creedmoor Bullet. This load, in either my '75 Sharps or my old Ballard, has won countless mid range (out to 600 yard) matches for me. Both loads just break 1100 fps.

Next are two .45-2.6 loads, aka .45-100. This was the rarest of the original Sharps chamberings, only being chambered in match rifles (no hunting rifles) for a year or two before being superseded by the .45-2.4, or .45-90. The two bullets shown are the same Jones Creedmoor and a Hoch 550 grain bullet from a custom nose pour mold made by Dave Farmer. 95 grains of Swiss 1 1/2 Fg pushes either into the mid 1300 fps range. Both loads are proven match winners in my '74 Sharps (again from C. Sharps Arms), having garnered medals and trophies from 600 to a full 1,000 yards.
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