Martini Henry in 45-70

L.Parratt said:
If I could find a rifle in one, I'd be all over it.
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type in sharps on ####### ...seek and you will find

The guy is way off on price..... thinks it is a original 50- 3 1/4 Farmingdale late 1970s early 1980 production.

BTW good scope but the mounts are garbage...been there done that
 
L.Parratt said:
Is that the guy asking $15,000?
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yes that's him, he said it his dead brothers gun and he paid 15,000 for it , I have talked with him on the phone and explained to him that it was built in 1980-1982 just before they moved to Big Timber Montana ...The gun back then retailed for $900.00 USD and was a hard sell back then. If his brother bought it for 15000.00 he got taken .With all the pictures showing some kind of rust on all the nooks and crannies of the rifle I would be a buyer at $800.00 and strip the barrel off and chamber it to something else.
 
cdnrokon said:
yes that's him, he said it his dead brothers gun and he paid 15,000 for it , I have talked with him on the phone and explained to him that it was built in 1980-1982 just before they moved to Big Timber Montana ...The gun back then retailed for $900.00 USD and was a hard sell back then. If his brother bought it for 15000.00 he got taken .With all the pictures showing some kind of rust on all the nooks and crannies of the rifle I would be a buyer at $800.00 and strip the barrel off and chamber it to something else.
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Being a Farmingdale built rifle, If it were in really nice shape it might be worth $2500 or so, but it's definitely not in perfect shape. When I saw the picture and the price I assumed it was an original Sharps until I read the ad :)

Chris.
 
gunlaker said:
Being a Farmingdale built rifle, If it were in really nice shape it might be worth $2500 or so, but it's definitely not in perfect shape. When I saw the picture and the price I assumed it was an original Sharps until I read the ad :)

Chris.
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I have seen people buy a sharps even in 45/120 and sell them a year later , they get all hot and horny to play Quigley and they they try to find components to feed it., and get turned off due to the cost and recoil.
I have had many rifles over the years Hepburns,Highwalls, Martinis, Rolling Block, Shiloh Sharps, Peder Sharps ..largest cal was a 45/90 Highwall,50/70 Ballard, and the 577/450 Martinis , most of the others were mainly 45/70. even 45/70 gets to you after a 3 day match . not fun on the second relay of the last day when you have been shooting prone lobbing 530gr chunks of lead at the ram at 500 .
I shoot for fun now.. looking to find a spot that does the casual gong shoot type of thing . Canadian version of sagebrush long shots.
my toys now are Ballards in 40/65 and 40/90.
 
The .45-90 in a normal weight rifle is about all I want to shoot for a multi day match. I shoot some in the 2.6 & 2-7/8 cases, but bull barreled Sharps rifles, so nice and heavy. I haven't been to a match south of the border since covid so I am mostly shooting silhouette rifles up here in .40-65 & .45-70. Plus some schuetzen stuff. The .32-40 is pretty pleasant in a single shot :)

Chris.
 
One thing I noticed on your "finished project" is that the front scope lens is far enough ahead to be in the muzzle blast zone ( at least the lens on my 32" scope is at the very end, no tube protection offered" and hard carbon muzzle blast particles will pit that lens in very few rounds.
 
fingers284 said:
One thing I noticed on your "finished project" is that the front scope lens is far enough ahead to be in the muzzle blast zone ( at least the lens on my 32" scope is at the very end, no tube protection offered" and hard carbon muzzle blast particles will pit that lens in very few rounds.
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I think he has a screw on extension tube at the muzzle end, the lens unit would be at least 6" back from the muzzle of rifle.
JMHO
 
fingers284 said:
One thing I noticed on your "finished project" is that the front scope lens is far enough ahead to be in the muzzle blast zone ( at least the lens on my 32" scope is at the very end, no tube protection offered" and hard carbon muzzle blast particles will pit that lens in very few rounds.
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As Flyr said, the last 6" or so are a sunshade. The scope lens stops at the brass.
 
woodchopper said:
I've got 3 MkIVs, a MkI, all in 577/450, a Mini in 310, a Egyptian Greener in 12/14 (no ammo) and a MkIII sporter in 303. So I do have a few shooters already :)
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The greener shouldn’t be too hard to make up ammo for. I’d have another firing pin made if it has the prongs still and I think ch4d has the dies 12ga brass hulls.
 
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