Early & developmental Sharps metallic and cartridge firearms -- Sharps Model 1867 & Model 1868 carbines and rifles -- Springfield-Sharps Model 1870 trials rifles & carbines -- Sharps Model 1869 ...

Editor’s note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles. He is a Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s essay is about the Sharps ...

BIG TIMBER, Mont. – No detail, no matter how small, is overlooked in the creation of the replica Sharps rifles crafted by the Shiloh Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Co. here. They even make their own ...

This article, “Sharp Shooting With The Sharps,” appeared originally in the August 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American ...

Christian Sharps was too busy creating life in that chilly spring of 1874 to worry about the persistent coughs racking his 64-year-old lungs. Retired from a career of developing the famous rifles that ...

Shootist [shoo-tist] noun 1. a marksman with a pistol or rifle. 2. a gunfighter, as in the Old West. I‘ve had a replica of an 1874 Sharps for more than a decade, but have put fewer than 50 rounds ...

No detail, no matter how small, is overlooked in the creation of the replica Sharps rifles crafted by the Shiloh Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Co. in Big Timber. They even make their own screws. "We ...

SHERIDAN — Carmen Axtell beams with pride while holding a replica of an 1877 Sharps rifle that was handcrafted in her shop. Sure, remakes of the popular 1874 Sharps — the gun that was used extensively ...