I saw a Sharps rifle chambered for it in a Las Vegas gun show in 2008-2009. Re: Buffalo with a Sharps Post by Duane Johnson » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:39 pm Thanks Gussy, I had a very good buffalo hunting spot by Fishtrap lake outside of Spokane but they lost the lease to the hunting area when the B.L.M. The buffalo bull is out at exactly 805 yards, and though it isn’t moving, the sagebrush around it sure is. This encompasses a myriad of rifle designs that includes the Sharps, Browning High Wall, Remington Rolling Block, 1885 Winchester, Springfield "Trap Door", and many others. Nothing fancy. Sharps Rifle Best known as a buffalo-hunting gun, the Sharps sporting rifle became known as “Old Reliable” by those who hunted buffalo for their hides. If you like the look, feel, hefty boom and recoil of single shot center fire cartridge rifles designed before the 20th century, that's what this site is all about. The .50-90 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black-powder cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in 1872 as a buffalo (American bison) hunting round. [/su_heading] The No. The shooter, a bearded man wearing weathered buckskins, with a skinning knife in his tooled leather belt, steadies his long-barreled .45/90 rifle on a forked stick and waits for the sage to settle. These scopes are a must for your Winchester Model 1885 rifle, H&R “ Buffalo Classic”, Winchester ’73, ’76, ’92 & ‘94 models, Henry “Golden Boy” .22, Marlin ’94 / ’95 models, and others. Magnificent buffalo rifle with 30″ heavy oct bbl mounted with an extraordinarily rare “SHARPS” marked full length 34-1/2″ telescope that has very fine spider web cross hairs and a brass eye piece aperture. SN C53900. EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED SHARPS MODEL 1874 HEAVY BUFFALO RIFLE WITH ORIGINAL SCOPE. It has plain straight grain walnut and a 30 inch barrel. It was a bison cartridge in the market hunting days. This mount set is designed to install the Short Malcolm Scope on the Sharps. After all, how many Indians do you see buffalo hunting today? 44-77 Sharps. Some life-long Sharps rifle collectors have told me their research convinced them only about 100 to 125 Model 1874s of that weight were made. The Uberti 1874 Buffalo Hunter is a perfect modern-day recreation of that iconic rifle. My rifle is a Shiloh Sharps 16# bull barrel 50-90 ordered to look exactly like a buffalo rifle from back in the day. Magnificent buffalo rifle with 30″ heavy oct bbl mounted with an extraordinarily rare “SHARPS” marked full length 34-1/2″ telescope that has very fine spider web cross hairs and a brass eye piece aperture. The shooter, a bearded man wearing weathered buckskins, with a skinning knife in his tooled leather belt, steadies his long-barreled .45/90 rifle on a forked stick and waits for the sage to settle. "Old Reliable" 45-70 Buffalo Gun, blue and case hardened finish, wood stocks, double triggers with set trigger, SN CXX110, Barrel #160659 and added tang rear sight. 2 barrel in .44 caliber. Cal. This 1874 Sharps rifle is a great example of a been-there, done-that authentic western buffalo rifle. 1874 Sharps, 1885 Hi Walls & Low Walls, Shop our collection of Single Shot Black Powder Rifles, Rolling Blocks, John Bodine Rolling Blocks, Lyman Model 1878 really a copy of the 1877 Sharps rifle, Pedersoli Sharps Rifles, Billy Dixon Sharps, Pedersoli Trapdoors here at Buffalo Arms since 1990! Obvious which one to use. It shot a hundred and twenty grains of powder, and the bullets were an inch and a … An authentic reproduction of the famed "Buffalo Sharps" favored by 19th century hunters who told stories of consistent, clean buffalo kills up to 400, 500 or 600 yards. The buffalo bull is out at exactly 805 yards, and though it isn’t moving, the sagebrush around it sure is. [su_heading size=”30″] “Hannah” is a rather special rifle, a Model 1874 Sharps from C. Sharps Arms that was “built around” a Badger No. They feel most bison hunting was done with rifles in the 10- to 12-pound range. EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED SHARPS MODEL 1874 HEAVY BUFFALO RIFLE WITH ORIGINAL SCOPE. Christian Sharps (1811-1874) was the originator of a line of sturdy, practical, and popular military and sporting rifles and handguns that were associated with several events that shaped American history in 19th century, including armed conflict in Kansas during the 1850s, the Civil War, the era of the Plains buffalo hunter, and the rise of modern long-range competition shooting during the 1870s. Cal. The Uberti 1874 Buffalo Hunter is based on the same system as the Sharps rifles, which saw their early development in the Civil War. My shot was near enough to the ear that he went straight down. Among those associated with the rifles were Billy Dixon, Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson and others who used the big single-shot to maximum effect on the seemingly endless herds of buffalo.