Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 and ceasing...

9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. Despite Sharps departing from the company bearing his name, Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company produced over 100,000...

The .50-90 Sharps, also known as the .50-21⁄2" Sharps, is a black-powder rifle cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in...

Sharps (January 2, 1810 – March 12, 1874) was the inventor of the Sharps rifle, the first commercially successful breech-loading rifle and the Sharps...

The .45-90 Sharps, also known as the .45-24⁄10" Sharps, is a black powder rifle cartridge introduced in 1877 by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company...

conditioned beer brewery) Sharps rifle Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, a firearms company Sharps Creek (Kansas), in McPherson County Sharps Creek (Oregon),...

block. The Sharps was the favorite among hunters because of its accuracy at long range. .45-70 .50-70 Government .50-90 Sharps Long rifle Smith, Clint...

The .50-140 Sharps, also known as the .50-31⁄4" Sharps, is a black-powder rifle cartridge that was introduced in 1884, as a big game hunting round. It...

The 25-45 Sharps (6.35×45mm) is a firearms cartridge designed by Michael H Blank, then CEO of the Sharps Rifle Company, LLC, as a general hunting cartridge...

resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle. This hammerless...

40-50 Sharps, may reference two mutually incompatible black powder rifle cartridges, which were the smallest members in the Sharps family: .40-50 Sharps Straight...

the legendary 1874 Sharps Rifle, featured in the 1990 Western film Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck. Shiloh Sharps Rifle began production in...

as the Sharps rifle) and lever action rifles. The Hawken rifle was made and sold by Jacob and Samuel Hawken. Trained by their father as rifle smiths on...

Sharps and .500 Express; early repeating actions were not capable of handling rounds of this power and physical size. The single-shot big-game rifle would...

armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's...

Sharps .25-21 Stevens .25-25 Stevens .25 Winchester Super Short Magnum .250 Savage .25-06 Remington .25-20 Winchester .25-35 Winchester .25-45 Sharps...

as the .45-70 Government, .45-70 Springfield, and .45-21⁄10" Sharps, is a .45 caliber rifle cartridge originally holding 70 grains of black powder that...

"Beecher's Bibles" was the name given to the breech-loading Sharps rifle that were supplied to and used by the anti-slavery settlers and combatants in...

1877-1878, Sharps Rifle Company modified Vetterli action with a different receiver and cartridge-feeding mechanism for the Magazine Rifle Board competition...

cartridges of the period. Originally chambered in .45-70 Government, .45-90 Sharps, and .40-82 Winchester, it was later offered in a half dozen other large...

and rifle Henry repeating rifle Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket Peabody M1862 Action rifle Sharps M1848...

had a large supply of percussion-fired Sharps carbines at the close of the Civil War and had the Sharps Rifle Company convert about 31,000 of the rolling-block...

delivered by 1916, and used to equip rear-line troops. Along with the Sharps rifle, the Rolling Block was one of two rifles probably used more than any...

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Pattern 1853 Enfield Richmond Rifle Sharps Rifle Several classic lever-action rifles are also made by Chiappa as well. Spencer rifle Winchester Model 1886 Winchester...

cartridges. The largest number of these was the Sharps carbine, which was also available as a rifle. As the war progressed, increasing numbers of Federal...

Berdan made a request to receive issuance of Sharps rifles to his men. Christian Sharps invented the Sharps rifle in 1848 in Hartford, Connecticut. It was...

magazine repeating rifle designed principally by James Paris Lee in the mid-1870s. It first appeared in 1879, manufactured by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing...

include the M1870 Belgian Comblain, M1872 Mylonas, Sharps rifle, Farquharson rifle, 1890 Stevens, Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878, Winchester Model 1885, Browning...

An assault rifle is a select fire rifle that uses an intermediate-rifle cartridge and a detachable magazine. Assault rifles were first put into mass production...