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Originally Posted by tabs
If you were going to the Creedmore 1000 yd Matches in 1877 you might be taking one of these Spoons with you. While the weight and trigger configuration of several of these spoons would have prohibited one from competing they are of the type used successfully in that era.
1. C Sharps model 1875 LR There wee only a few of these built as proto- types by the original Sharps Co in 1875-76.
2. Gibbs Style LR Percussion 451 Caliber, This was the type of spoon that the Irish, English, South African and Austalian teams used from the 1860's to the 1880's.
3. Shiloh Sharps LR Express, The Sharps model 1874 was used by the American team in 1876 to beat the spoon teams from the British empire. The 1874 Sharps is the rifle associated with the winning of the West
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Old thread I know but I wanted to further discuss your #1. I think Sharps also rebuilt rifles updating them to be used as market guns. I have one such gun. It was an original Sharps 1859 that began life as a percussion carbine using paper cartridge bullets and pellets for ignition. At some point it was converted to centerfire. It was then again converted to .45-100 and a double set trigger added. I suspect that was accomplished between 1876 and 1878. I shot a few rounds keeping pressures around 18K cpu using 24 gr of H4918 behind a 545 gr round nosed bullet. It shot 3/4 MOA at 100 yds. I shot a few more rounds at 200 yds to see if it held a decent MOA. I also chrony'd it at 1129 fps avg. Slow, big, freight train. It shoots almost dead center on a 7 inch steel plate. Testing done I plan to now load it with BP to shoot Mid and Long Range. BTW, the bullet busted the welds on plate even though it was moving slow. I guess it's hard to stop a freight train once it gets moving.
Bob
