The buffalo bull is out at exactly 805 yards, and though it isn’t moving, the sagebrush around it sure is. Additionally, Tom Selleck’s use of a Sharps Buffalo Rifle in Quigley Down Under (even though he actually used a .45-110 cartridge in the movie) helped reignite interest in old black powder cartridges and rifles in the general hunting population and further enhanced the reputation of the .45-70. This 1874 Sharps rifle is a great example of a been-there, done-that authentic western buffalo rifle. [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. SN C53900. 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. "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. The buffalo bull is out at exactly 805 yards, and though it isn’t moving, the sagebrush around it sure is. The Buffalo Rifle is based on the real world Sharps Model 1874 Rifle. It shot a hundred and twenty grains of powder, and the bullets were an inch and a … I would NOT recommend it for Cape Buffalo. [/su_heading] The No. Sharps 45-70 Rifle 1874 Model with Set Trigger and Fire Triggers and Tang Sight Description: Sharps Model 1874 Meacham Type Conversion. Cape Buffalo are MEAN brutes. By the latter half of the 19th century, professional hunters had mostly settled on one ideal rifle, perfect for hunting buffalo. I saw a Sharps rifle chambered for it in a Las Vegas gun show in 2008-2009. 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. Bison are extremely tough animals to bring down. EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED SHARPS MODEL 1874 HEAVY BUFFALO RIFLE WITH ORIGINAL SCOPE. 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. 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. It was a bison cartridge in the market hunting days. Nothing fancy. 2 barrel in .44 caliber. 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. My shot was near enough to the ear that he went straight down. bought the ground. Though relatively challenging, it is possible to get the Buffalo rifle soon after unlocking the Master Hunter Challenges, or rather, attaining Rank 5 of the Master Hunter category, as aforesaid above (involving knifing twice the deadly cougar). 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. 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. Early Sharps rifles won so many shooting contests, especially long-range competitions, that sportsmen and the military jumped to acquire them. SN C53900. They feel most bison hunting was done with rifles in the 10- to 12-pound range. After all, how many Indians do you see buffalo hunting today? 44-77 Sharps. My rifle is a Shiloh Sharps 16# bull barrel 50-90 ordered to look exactly like a buffalo rifle from back in the day. 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. It was shipped from Sharps in 1879 with double set triggers, open sights, and a medium-weight .45 caliber barrel, but rebuilt by a Cheyenne gunsmith with a much heavier barrel in .40-100 caliber, and fitted with a Rice telescopic sight in a free-floating mount. Obvious which one to use. This mount set is designed to install the Short Malcolm Scope on the Sharps. EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED SHARPS MODEL 1874 HEAVY BUFFALO RIFLE WITH ORIGINAL SCOPE. 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! 2 barrels are heavy and that, as a result, gives this Hartford-style rifle a weight of over 15 pounds. Cal. George W. Brown hunted buffalo from 1870-1874 and recorded the following: "I used a big fifty caliber Sharps rifle. 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. It has plain straight grain walnut and a 30 inch barrel. 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. 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.