Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

FJRdoc said

Sublime, your Sharps are beautiful. The one picture on the left has gorgeous wood. Single shot rifles are alluring. I have a Japanese Winchester 1885 in 45-70 that is a tack driver. It's a heavy rifle to carry around in the woods.
I only recently became interested in the rolling blocks. The simplicity of the design is brilliant.

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Agreed, one of the Sharps is 45-70 and the other is 45-110. We were dialing in for a long range match. I was experimenting with some hand loads. This was during the Covid crazy times and no powder was to be had so I worked up a load using Unique which I had on hand. We were shooting at 800 yards. Bright no wind sunny winter day. It was just a great day. I am still using Unique to this day for the 45-70 as ultimately the recipe I ended up with really preformed. And yes the rifle weighs in at about 500 pounds! No way I would want to lug it around for very long!