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Examples
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So the Sharps is a enclosed bullet (45-70) but yours others are blackpowder?
Investing in Rifles 2008
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Today me and young Betsy (my Sharps is about 8 yr old) are headed to the range to make holes in paper and train, train, train.
Too Much Accuracy? 2008
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Jim in MOThe Sharps is a 12 pound falling block single shot in 45-70.
Investing in Rifles 2008
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The trajectory on even a 45-110 Sharps is so steep if he is off only 10 yds he will almost certainly miss even with a perfect sight picture.
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Sixty miles from the river, the Alamo curved north and reentered the United States at a location known as Sharps Heading—or as some preferred, Buzzards Roost, after the thousands of foreboding birds that used its mesquite trees as launching points for their forays over the desert.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Sixty miles from the river, the Alamo curved north and reentered the United States at a location known as Sharps Heading—or as some preferred, Buzzards Roost, after the thousands of foreboding birds that used its mesquite trees as launching points for their forays over the desert.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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But all this is wandering far away from my friend Sharps, which is my last geographical point.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878
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MLH you left out the best Sharps which is Shiloh arms of Big Timber montana.
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MLH you left out the best Sharps which is Shiloh arms of Big Timber montana.
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I have had the absolute pleasure to visit a bloody beautiful part of the world known as northern California, and while there, was able to shoot almost any kind of rifle I could think of, at almost anything I cared to ... some dating all the way back to the "Sharps" era right up to fairly modern rifles/handguns ...
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