When I ordered my Quigley rifle chambered in the 45/110, from time of ordering until I had the item in my hand it had been 22 months. And I’m in Canada. Fantastic rifle built by fantastic people and shown here by a fantastic guy.
I have to share something regarding Tom Selleck. My dad loved the movie Quigley Down Under. We would watch it when he visited after mom died. We fished, shot, worked in the shop and would watch a movie in the evening. On a Friday night the show "Bluebloods" came on. My dad looked at the show and remarked "That guy looks like a fat Tom Selleck!" I said "dad that is Tom Selleck... He ain't Quigley anymore." Dad died in 2015 at 87 years old. I think about him a lot. Greatest Generation cannot describe men from back then.
My first replica Sharps was a Shiloh 1863 in .54 caliber. The experience with nitrated paper cartridges and heeled bullets was interesting, but the occasional gas blowback - even though it was minor- was enough to get an 1874 Shiloh Sharps Number One in 45-70 with a shotgun butt and a mid-range Soule sight. That was a piece of art that shot amazingly well. I plinked with it mostly with 385 grain cast bullets and Trail Boss. Seeing a big rifle make a "mouse-fart" report while putting them into a 2-inch black circle at 100 yards sure turned some heads on the range.
I think you're right, it's just the Springfield that's Trapdoor, but still similar in practice. idk what the Sharps and Martini-Henry are considered, maybe Falling Block? I'm not sure of the proper term for it
@@colt4247 shoot you're gonna make me dig 😂, I'm game, love these types of titles too. One sec! Edit: okay so falling block and breechloaded are same thing different terms, and Google will not be visited again due to my retardation 😅 have a good one man
I knew a old man who is gone now and he had a original 1874 sharps in the 40-72 sharps cartridge I believe he cast bullets and loaded for it the barrel on it was as thick as a semi truck axle it was really heavy
I was fortunate to get a Shiloh Sharps at a gun show recently for a good price. It has a longer barrel and the tang sight. Those guns are works of art.
Got mine from Shiloh when they were in Farmingdale N.Y., 1985 I believe. 74 Sporter, nothing fancy. Guy named Wolfgang Droege ran it then. The Bryans, current owners in Big Timber Mt., replaced the barrel a few years back and that rascal does shoot! Mild load of 40 gr. of H4895 using Magnus 405 gr. lead bullet gave me a 3 shot group you could completely cover with a quarter at 100 yards using a replica Ideal tang sight. Yeah, I'm braggin. 🥴 👍🍻
My 75 yo wife still has an 1874 Sharpes Silhouette in 40/65 with Soule tang sight. Has shot it in BP competition for over 20 years now and won many matches, but time to retire from competition. Same story with me and my Browning BPCR (a rifle based on the 1885 Winchester Hi-wall). The scourge of old age and failing eyesight. Used to love shooting reeeal loooong range where you could shoot, switch to your spotting scope, and watch the fall of shot. These old rifles are like artillery pieces. Slow as she goes, but that big pill gets there with surprising accuracy. Casting, then rolling-your-own, is so rewarding. Cleaning BP fouling is a bltch though.
Hickok, not sure if you've ever had a chance to visit, but the Visitor Center at the Chickamauga Battlefield in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park has an impressive gun collection donated by the Fullers. It's not too far from your house so it might be worth a visit! The park itself is also full of cool Civil War history.
Another movie with a Sharps scene is Billy Two Hats with Gregory Peck and Desi Arnez. There the old budfalo hunter takes a couple of shots at Gregory Peck as he and Desi are riding off. The scene is great because you hear the bumble bee buzz of the round whizzing past Gregory Peck from the first shot.
I had heard that when Billy Dixon made his famous shot . The Indian he shot was the War Chief of the Attacking Indians which is why they left off the Battle. I've never researched it but that was what I was told .
If you order directly from Shiloh it is a 2-3 year wait. If you order from Bill Goodman he is shiloh’s only distributor. You can get your custom rifle in under 2 years for an extra 200 bucks he charges. I got mine in July after 1 year 4 months of waiting. If you get a ‘plain jane’ model it will probably be quicker through Goodman. Mine had extra options and scope mounts to be done.
I don't for sure either but I think there were just a few muzzleloader sharps at the beginning but yes almost all others were falling block. The paper cartridge type were made to shear off as the sharp edge of the block raised into place, exposed powder charge was then ignited by percussion cap. Sometimes the opened the chamber and placed the ball or bullet and poured black powder in behind it, raised the block and fired
A sharps rifle is used in the good the bad and the ugly. Also the outlaw Jose wales and don’t forget Legends of the Fall! I have a number one sporter that’s very similar from Shiloh and oddly enough I shot it today for the first time in a decade! My shoulder hurts tonight and I think I need one of those recoil pads!
I got my Shiloh Sharps the same way Hickok45 did, from the inventory room on Shiloh's website. I got the same variant too. The Montana Rough Rider, except mine has a 30' barrel. I also have a couple Pedersoli-made Quigleys, one is 45-70 and one in 45-110. They're amazing rifles as well. I also have a C.Sharps Sporter variant chambered in 50-140, but that gun is no fun to shoot. My shoulder can handle the recoil, but my brain cannot. After the third shot I'm literally bling for a minute or two until my brain finishes its reboot. After that I feel punch-drunk for the rest of the day. Tom Selleck actually undersold the capabilities of the rifle in the movie. This gets proven every year at the "Quigley Shoot" in Forsyth, MT. When I got my first Sharps, an Old Timer told me "Welcome to your new obsession!". I didn't understand what he meant. Now I do.
When I think of a movie with a sharps carbine in it, my mind goes to True Grit. I've only seen the remake from about 15 years ago but Matt Damon has one. I bet it's in the original but I just don't know. Great video Hickok!
Clint Eastwood used one in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Glen Campbell carried one in “True Grit,” and Kevin Costner had one in “Wyatt Earp.” But the most famous film role for the 1874 Sharps was in “Quigley Down Under” where a special long-range version chambered in .45-110 was used extensively by Tom Selleck in the starring role.
Es realmente confortable ver vídeos donde se muestra, el verdadero arte de hacer una buena arma de calidad,la vieja escuela de los armeros de antaño, no creo que sea igualada, pero quedan sus herencias ,gracias por mostrar tan finas y duras herramientas.
not sure if you've ever had a chance to visit, but the Visitor Center at the Chickamauga Battlefield in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park has an impressive gun collection donated by the Fullers. It's not too far from your house so it might be worth a visit! The park itself is also full of cool Civil War history.
In the actual Buffalo hunting days there were two popular guns freely given away by the US Army (with free ammunition too) to anyone wanting to exterminate Bison. The Trapdoor 50-70, and the Sharps conversion carbine also in .50-70. By the time Sharps caught on (and the US Army was no longer using .50-70) and brought out the model 1874 the great buffalo herds were basically extinct.
Just saw your Ballistol can and listened to your endorsement. I’ve been using it for years as a final step to cleaning/lubrication. How do you utilize it? Your endorsement said cleaner and lube. Thanks, Don. P.S. I loved the 1874 Sharps video. Keep up the good work.
Billy Dixon used a Sharps for his fatal 1538-yard shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. Reportedly the buffalo hunters took a vote to choose between Dixon of Bat Masterson.
General Buford's cavalry used their breech-loading carbines to hold off the Confederates at the first day during the Battle of Gettysburg and buy time for the rest of the Union forces to get in to position. Gen,. Buford was portrayed by Sam Elliott in the movie "Gettysburg".
Got an 1885 high wall in 45-70. If an Alien transported me to a wilderness location or back to early America, 1000-1500, that’s the gun I’d take with me.
Valdez looked like he was pushing a lead ball into the cartridge cases as reloading it. Said it was more like a thousand yard shots? Well I'm not sure balls are that good so far away. It takes a bullet 300 to 530 grains in the forty four or forty five caliber to match the rifling gain twist
“I’ll let John do the 200 year celebration” unintentionally heartbreaking sentence.
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When I ordered my Quigley rifle chambered in the 45/110, from time of ordering until I had the item in my hand it had been 22 months. And I’m in Canada. Fantastic rifle built by fantastic people and shown here by a fantastic guy.
I have to share something regarding Tom Selleck. My dad loved the movie Quigley Down Under. We would watch it when he visited after mom died. We fished, shot, worked in the shop and would watch a movie in the evening.
On a Friday night the show "Bluebloods" came on. My dad looked at the show and remarked "That guy looks like a fat Tom Selleck!" I said "dad that is Tom Selleck... He ain't Quigley anymore."
Dad died in 2015 at 87 years old. I think about him a lot. Greatest Generation cannot describe men from back then.
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RIP 🙏
This kind of craftsmanship reminds us of a time when quality and skill were the backbone of firearms production.
My gun is perfect in construction wood to metal fit second to none
Ive been watching him since i was 12 lol ❤im 20 now in army
A Rifle so legendary a nickname was coined from it and has stuck around since.
My first replica Sharps was a Shiloh 1863 in .54 caliber. The experience with nitrated paper cartridges and heeled bullets was interesting, but the occasional gas blowback - even though it was minor- was enough to get an 1874 Shiloh Sharps Number One in 45-70 with a shotgun butt and a mid-range Soule sight. That was a piece of art that shot amazingly well.
I plinked with it mostly with 385 grain cast bullets and Trail Boss. Seeing a big rifle make a "mouse-fart" report while putting them into a 2-inch black circle at 100 yards sure turned some heads on the range.
I love these old trapdoor rifles, the Sharps, the Springfield and the Martini-Henry are probably my 3 all time favorite single shot cartridge rifles.
Breachloaded, the trapdoor was just one gun.
Unless in wrong, but trapdoor is just another phrase for the crag Jorgensen right?
I think you're right, it's just the Springfield that's Trapdoor, but still similar in practice. idk what the Sharps and Martini-Henry are considered, maybe Falling Block? I'm not sure of the proper term for it
@@colt4247 shoot you're gonna make me dig 😂, I'm game, love these types of titles too. One sec!
Edit: okay so falling block and breechloaded are same thing different terms, and Google will not be visited again due to my retardation 😅 have a good one man
@@AlamoAL lol you too👍
I knew a old man who is gone now and he had a original 1874 sharps in the 40-72 sharps cartridge I believe he cast bullets and loaded for it the barrel on it was as thick as a semi truck axle it was really heavy
I had a BFR in 45-70 about 18 years ago, man that thing was a beast!
I could spend all day listening to hickok 45😁👏
A new video right on my birthday🎉🎉!!! Awesome present, thanks hickok!
I was fortunate to get a Shiloh Sharps at a gun show recently for a good price. It has a longer barrel and the tang sight. Those guns are works of art.
Got mine from Shiloh when they were in Farmingdale N.Y., 1985 I believe. 74 Sporter, nothing fancy. Guy named Wolfgang Droege ran it then. The Bryans, current owners in Big Timber Mt., replaced the barrel a few years back and that rascal does shoot! Mild load of 40 gr. of H4895 using Magnus 405 gr. lead bullet gave me a 3 shot group you could completely cover with a quarter at 100 yards using a replica Ideal tang sight. Yeah, I'm braggin. 🥴 👍🍻
Same with my 4570 pedersoli
Greetings from Czech republic. I always learn something new. Great videos, thank You for making them. Take care:o)
Absolutely beautiful rifle.
What a beauty
My 75 yo wife still has an 1874 Sharpes Silhouette in 40/65 with Soule tang sight. Has shot it in BP competition for over 20 years now and won many matches, but time to retire from competition.
Same story with me and my Browning BPCR (a rifle based on the 1885 Winchester Hi-wall).
The scourge of old age and failing eyesight.
Used to love shooting reeeal loooong range where you could shoot, switch to your spotting scope, and watch the fall of shot. These old rifles are like artillery pieces. Slow as she goes, but that big pill gets there with surprising accuracy. Casting, then rolling-your-own, is so rewarding. Cleaning BP fouling is a bltch though.
Hickok, not sure if you've ever had a chance to visit, but the Visitor Center at the Chickamauga Battlefield in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park has an impressive gun collection donated by the Fullers. It's not too far from your house so it might be worth a visit! The park itself is also full of cool Civil War history.
Love hickok45 Turned me on to Buds Gun shop. Bought a couple guns from them. So love your channel. I live in western NC. Not too far away!!
45-70 sure knocks the silhouettes down and rings the Gong with authority.
Another movie with a Sharps scene is Billy Two Hats with Gregory Peck and Desi Arnez. There the old budfalo hunter takes a couple of shots at Gregory Peck as he and Desi are riding off. The scene is great because you hear the bumble bee buzz of the round whizzing past Gregory Peck from the first shot.
Always wanted on for my collection. Soon, I hope 🙂
You won't regret it
Got mine couples of days ago from the store name above
LIFE IS GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!
Quigley approves!
I love this channel every time I learn something new,,,nice piece ❤
I had heard that when Billy Dixon made his famous shot . The Indian he shot was the War Chief of the Attacking Indians which is why they left off the Battle. I've never researched it but that was what I was told .
I really enjoy your channel, another great clip 😍, respect from Australia 🇦🇺
I just received my Shiloh Sharps in September. I ordered it 3 years ago. It was definitely worth the wait.
GREETINGS FROM THE PPRC GREAT VIDEO TODAY.🇺🇸🍺🍺
Alabama Holster are great. I have several.
If you order directly from Shiloh it is a 2-3 year wait. If you order from Bill Goodman he is shiloh’s only distributor. You can get your custom rifle in under 2 years for an extra 200 bucks he charges. I got mine in July after 1 year 4 months of waiting. If you get a ‘plain jane’ model it will probably be quicker through Goodman. Mine had extra options and scope mounts to be done.
I don't for sure either but I think there were just a few muzzleloader sharps at the beginning but yes almost all others were falling block. The paper cartridge type were made to shear off as the sharp edge of the block raised into place, exposed powder charge was then ignited by percussion cap. Sometimes the opened the chamber and placed the ball or bullet and poured black powder in behind it, raised the block and fired
I own a IAB 1874 Sharps in 45-70..had it for Years n Years.
A sharps rifle is used in the good the bad and the ugly. Also the outlaw Jose wales and don’t forget Legends of the Fall! I have a number one sporter that’s very similar from Shiloh and oddly enough I shot it today for the first time in a decade! My shoulder hurts tonight and I think I need one of those recoil pads!
Great video; thank you Hickok45!
My dear old Dad loved westerns... we both liked Valdez is Coming. A real pleasure to hear Hickock45 mention the film.
Your dad had good taste. It's a very good movie that probably a great many have never seen.
Best TH-camr I love watching ❤
Awesome video nice rifle for a 150 year's old thanks for sharing hickok45
Excellent!
Those are beautiful works of art.
damn the new hunt showdown graphics look lit
"Unforgiven" clint Eastwood's film 👍
Very nice rifle!
I have a 45-90 Quigley Variant. LOVE IT.
Great lunch break when a video drops
Awesome relic
You’re a true legend
Мощный старик! 😂 Приятно снова видеть!🎉
Yes Bert realy did the roll proud
Thanks 45. Beautiful rifle
Thanks for the video. It was a lot of fun.
Valdez is Coming is definitely a great movie. Don’t mess with old men!
I got my Shiloh Sharps the same way Hickok45 did, from the inventory room on Shiloh's website. I got the same variant too. The Montana Rough Rider, except mine has a 30' barrel. I also have a couple Pedersoli-made Quigleys, one is 45-70 and one in 45-110. They're amazing rifles as well.
I also have a C.Sharps Sporter variant chambered in 50-140, but that gun is no fun to shoot. My shoulder can handle the recoil, but my brain cannot. After the third shot I'm literally bling for a minute or two until my brain finishes its reboot. After that I feel punch-drunk for the rest of the day.
Tom Selleck actually undersold the capabilities of the rifle in the movie. This gets proven every year at the "Quigley Shoot" in Forsyth, MT.
When I got my first Sharps, an Old Timer told me "Welcome to your new obsession!". I didn't understand what he meant. Now I do.
Gorgeous rifle.
When I think of a movie with a sharps carbine in it, my mind goes to True Grit. I've only seen the remake from about 15 years ago but Matt Damon has one. I bet it's in the original but I just don't know. Great video Hickok!
Dang Hickok, can't believe that you forgot Glenn Campbell in True Grit. Great videos especially, when you bring out the older stuff.
Long live Hickok45
Hi Mr Hickok Im from Down Under I was hoping you would hav a crack at the bucket at 782yds for the 150th Yr celebration of the Shiloh Sharp !!!
Jesus, thank you for choosing this one among all the weapons of the old west to do a review.
Clint Eastwood used one in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Glen Campbell carried one in “True Grit,” and Kevin Costner had one in “Wyatt Earp.” But the most famous film role for the 1874 Sharps was in “Quigley Down Under” where a special long-range version chambered in .45-110 was used extensively by Tom Selleck in the starring role.
I place my order with shiloh sharps in October 2020. I am was told it is waiting for the engraving to be done. It will be worth the wait
Yes, unless one is pretty old. :-)
I'd possibly order another one, except by the time it arrives, I might not be around. Who knows!
Ive been watching him since i was 12 lol ❤❤
Greetings from Sabah North Borneo👍
Es realmente confortable ver vídeos donde se muestra, el verdadero arte de hacer una buena arma de calidad,la vieja escuela de los armeros de antaño, no creo que sea igualada, pero quedan sus herencias ,gracias por mostrar tan finas y duras herramientas.
Love Buds gunshop❤
Look at the pattern on that metal work! I have the same thing on my Savage model 99👍🏻
Very nice 👌 👍
Did you use a sharps, trapdoor or rolling block back in your bison hunting days during the westwards expansion? :P glad the vid is up again.
Sharps rifle and the carbine variant is also in a game called War of Rights. Which is a civil war shooter.
I have 4 1874s. 45-70, 45-90, 50-70, 50-90. My children.
You should make a video about your all-time favorite movies (Maybe in a shoot-a-round?)
Quite a legendary rifle. What would a rifle like that weigh? Thanks for the video.
Sweet rifle!
Wow ..Nice 5 yard shots...=)
not sure if you've ever had a chance to visit, but the Visitor Center at the Chickamauga Battlefield in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park has an impressive gun collection donated by the Fullers. It's not too far from your house so it might be worth a visit! The park itself is also full of cool Civil War history.
Yes, I've been there several times. Great museum.
That was in Stinnett TX where I'm from.
You know something, Juan Valdez? You hit one, I think, seven, eight hundred yards. Valdez: Closer to one thousand. What a badass.
In the actual Buffalo hunting days there were two popular guns freely given away by the US Army (with free ammunition too) to anyone wanting to exterminate Bison. The Trapdoor 50-70, and the Sharps conversion carbine also in .50-70. By the time Sharps caught on (and the US Army was no longer using .50-70) and brought out the model 1874 the great buffalo herds were basically extinct.
Hey man! I want one!
Lastima que no entiendo nada porque no se ingles, pero el video me gusta por la leyenda de ese rifle.😊😊
Just saw your Ballistol can and listened to your endorsement. I’ve been using it for years as a final step to cleaning/lubrication. How do you utilize it? Your endorsement said cleaner and lube. Thanks, Don. P.S. I loved the 1874 Sharps video. Keep up the good work.
a great gun for the fence
First I've heard of this story
Hickok45 should do one on a 22 tcm i found some old shells in a basement and never heard of it before
Ill need to look into alabama holster when i got some extra.dough
Billy Dixon used a Sharps for his fatal 1538-yard shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. Reportedly the buffalo hunters took a vote to choose between Dixon of Bat Masterson.
Sharps Cavalry Carbine was another I wished I never sold.
General Buford's cavalry used their breech-loading carbines to hold off the Confederates at the first day during the Battle of Gettysburg and buy time for the rest of the Union forces to get in to position. Gen,. Buford was portrayed by Sam Elliott in the movie "Gettysburg".
Glen Campbell in True Grit also was armed with an 1874 Sharps along with Matt Damon in the remake.
Yes.
Got an 1885 high wall in 45-70. If an Alien transported me to a wilderness location or back to early America, 1000-1500, that’s the gun I’d take with me.
Valdez is coming with Bert Lancaster. In the movie he takes long shots with his loads.
Wish the companies would make the Borchardt also
Wow! I was like #45 !!!
45-70 is cool but they came 45- 90, 110 and 120. Also 50-70, 90, 110 and 120. I'd love a 45-110
I really want one of these but with shell ejector
Evening...
I was so, so sad to learn that Master Slamfire passed.
I hope you'll consider adopting another?
Hah! How many of us instantly thought 'Quigley' the second we saw 'Sharpes Rifle?' :)
Same gun as i have tang site made it more accurate
Valdez looked like he was pushing a lead ball into the cartridge cases as reloading it. Said it was more like a thousand yard shots? Well I'm not sure balls are that good so far away. It takes a bullet 300 to 530 grains in the forty four or forty five caliber to match the rifling gain twist