This one made it's first range trip this morning. It's only been in the safe for 2 years...Originally Posted by BobM
This one made it's first range trip this morning. It's only been in the safe for 2 years...
No talk of the Chiappa Little Sharps like awp_101‘s? At least nothing shows up on a thread search. I just became aware of these to my regret.
Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
Totally hawt!
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Information and discussion is hard to find on them. I’ve seen them labeled as Little Sharps and Little Betsy. What little discussion I could find at the time didn’t paint them as raging dumpster fires so I took a chance. I think I found good information on the ASSRA and cast bullet forums (I refuse to intentionally misspell bullet).
As of Jan 2024 Lee Shaver was willing to make a .22 LR insert for a .38-55. I need to contact him again and make sure that’s still the case. If so, it would be about 1/4 the cost of a new Chiappa rifle. OTOH it would mean keeping track of two sets of vernier sight settings (.38-55 and .22 LR). If he’s not, looks like I’m doing the layawake thing at my LGS.
Having owned a .45-120, I can say this would be very close to a NFE for me.
As of today he still is. It's a special order so it's $330 vs $285 for the .45 based cartridges. I'll report on mine when it gets here.
Jeebus. I really need to get off my ass and load some BP 50-70 loads for my Sharps Carbine. But put the 50-140 into the "no thank you" category for me!
My older brother has been a FFL for several decades and he has a small group of customers that shoot the old black powder big ones (meaning well above 45-70) out to very long ranges. They are a cool group and they have a LOT of fun.
There are a few around here that do that with a variety of old stuff. My old friend Miles Gilbert traded in original Sharps rifles in the past, preferring the buffalo guns whenever possible. He tried to shoot all that came through his hands, though we only shot to around 300 yards with them. Hugely fun, far far more so than most modern stuff, with honorable mention to 1903 Springfields.
Waiting on a mold to try an 1868 trapdoor. Have to see how the original sights work out for longer ranges, I think they only go to around 8 or 900 yards.
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
What’s the “standard” twist for a 22” .233 Contender barrel?
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote