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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #40 on: October 02, 2020, 03:07:40 PM »
Mine is a round barrel, those get made when enough orders justify the set up.  Covid added several months as well.
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2020, 11:02:17 AM »
Picked it up today!  Apologies for the poor camera.
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #42 on: October 09, 2020, 11:21:09 AM »
That's purty
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #43 on: October 09, 2020, 06:34:21 PM »
The pack hardening on this thing reminds me of pictures of interstellar nebulae. 


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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #44 on: October 12, 2020, 06:18:53 AM »
Well, I'm often accused of having my head in the clouds, but I doubt I'd have made that comparison.

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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #45 on: October 12, 2020, 03:04:48 PM »
Congrats - thats a beauty!
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #46 on: January 01, 2021, 11:18:15 AM »
Sent my $600 gummit check to MVA for a "B" sight with #1 mounts.   https://montanavintagearms.com/scopes/
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #47 on: January 25, 2021, 01:52:32 PM »
And the whole rig.
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #48 on: January 26, 2021, 07:56:38 AM »
Nice set up.  My aging eyes are liking that scope!
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #49 on: January 26, 2021, 08:44:19 AM »
It's an excellent scope, surprisingly light and very precise.  Combined with the excellent rifle and well loaded ammunition, I can set a paper plate out at 200 yards and pick where on the plate I want the group. 

I like it best for load development, then I can put the Tang sight on for field work.  The mounts are great, hold zero on and off the rifle.  Though I can see as I get older this will spend more and more time on the rifle. Reports from the BPCR guys say it's plenty tough.
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2021, 01:14:11 PM »
It's an excellent scope, surprisingly light and very precise.  Combined with the excellent rifle and well loaded ammunition, I can set a paper plate out at 200 yards and pick where on the plate I want the group. 

I like it best for load development, then I can put the Tang sight on for field work.  The mounts are great, hold zero on and off the rifle.  Though I can see as I get older this will spend more and more time on the rifle. Reports from the BPCR guys say it's plenty tough.
...And you should be able to put it on your 1903 and have a WWI era sniper replica.  ;D
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2021, 02:15:03 PM »
The thought had occurred to me, but I'd have to cut up an upper handguard for it,  and drill for the blocks.  Not sure I want to do that to an unaltered rifle.

 Bet it would work good on one of my cut down Krags though.   ;D
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #52 on: August 12, 2022, 10:51:04 PM »
My pay or else letter arrived on Wednesday.  I Called Shiloh Sharps yesterday and gave them my CC information.  Maybe in a month or so.  ;D I put my order in about one and one-half years ago.
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #53 on: August 13, 2022, 03:46:44 AM »
Watcha getting?
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #54 on: August 13, 2022, 11:54:14 AM »
My Shiloh Sharps only took about a week to get. I bought it used on Guns International. It is a Business Rifle chambered for the 50 2-1/2 Sharps Straight cartridge. As an early Business Rifle it is very plain with a round 28 "barrel, CC frame, plain wood, with the military butt.

With a 470g soft cast bullet over 90g of 1.5F Olde Eynsford, it kicks so bad setting at a shooting bench I can't handle it. Much easier on the shoulder and face (smile) off-hand or over crossed sticks, my preferred way to shoot it.

I had a 10' gong built by a welder who said it would stand up to anything. The "Big Fifty" knocks it "arse over teakettle" out to 100 yards. Gonna have to find a really durable gong to take to the desert as the public range where I shoot only allows paper. Hearing a gong ring is so much more satisfying than looking through binoculars for a hole in a paper target.

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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #55 on: August 13, 2022, 12:58:41 PM »
I just passed the 3-year mark from when I placed my order. I received my letter asking for final payment in January. I stopped by Shiloh in May when I was in the area and asked for an update. I was told that it was still "a couple of months" away from completion. I am still waiting "patiently"...

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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #56 on: August 13, 2022, 02:08:16 PM »
Good things come to he who waits. ;D
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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #57 on: August 13, 2022, 07:37:52 PM »
Good things come to he who waits. ;D

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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #58 on: August 20, 2022, 01:32:47 AM »
I just passed the 3-year mark from when I placed my order. I received my letter asking for final payment in January. I stopped by Shiloh in May when I was in the area and asked for an update. I was told that it was still "a couple of months" away from completion. I am still waiting "patiently"...

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I got the call from Shiloh on Thursday. I'm hoping to pick mine up next week. I'll probably start a new thread when I get it home.

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Re: Shiloh Sharps
« Reply #59 on: September 28, 2022, 06:06:34 AM »
Spent a pleasant afternoon out at the farm checking sight settings for the KVC buffalo shoot in October.  Used the scope last year, going to try the Soule this time.

Every time I pull this rifle from it's case I just marvel at how good it looks, feels and shoots.
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