The Legendary Sharps Rifle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2019
- The Sharps Rifle
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Santee, having suffered from serious depression for years you have no idea how many of my days your channel made so much better - even if just for a few minutes to regain some energy and fun... Thank you so much for that, and keep on the great work - I love the AZ Ghostriders, man!!! 😍 😍 😍
Felix, that makes me feel just great. Thanks for sharing what the channel means to you.
That rifle looks awesome!
Also, I’m glad no T-rexes were harmed in the making of this video. LOL!
Me too. Boy was he angry. I took three chuck roasts just to calm him down.
Santee did you also scratch behind his ear and a belly rub?
@@alvinsanchez967 Of course. He needed it after that.
Sometimes one shot is all you need.
I’m honestly really glad red dead exists, because without it I never would’ve gotten into the spirit of the west, and because I did I found this great channel!
yes!!!
Such a legendary rifle! This is the rifle that Bill Dixon used to fire one of the longest range shots in history
As mentioned in the video!
Arizona Ghostriders Yeah and its amazing how he managed to do that with only a blackpoweder weapon. Awesome vid by the way, love that you were early posting your new content :)
@@randombadassstuffs1601 Dixon was an amazing shooter. People tried to replicate the shot a few years ago and it took them 1000 rounds to hit the darn thing 3 times.
@@ArizonaGhostriders LUCK HAD A LOT TO DO WITH IT
@@richpalmer3167 Well, I would say that may be true, but we weren't there, so we don't really know.
I have 2 Shiloh Sharps rifles, a 50-70 and a 45-110 Quigley and absolutely love them. Although, there is a steep learning curve, to acquire the lost knowledge required to make these fine rifles shoot accurately.
Really? A steep learning curve? I didn't know.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Well, not you guys...my comment was aimed at those who were thinking of getting into firing these fine rifles, where cartridges "may not" be readily available, in their specific calibre.
Having said that, please don't send the T-rex to discipline me...again.
@@snoman003 thats why my sharps quigley is in 45-70.. not the 45-120 of the movie.. 45-70 is available all over.. some people claim my rifle isnt a quigley.,.. but it is 34 inchs, silver top on end of stock.. powder tray and so forth.. even says down under edition on it.. but im glad its 45-70.. i can go to any ammo shop and get ammo for it
The .45-100 could easily hit a target at 1000 yds and was reasonably accurate at 1300 yds. This was a beast of a rifle. This rifle was legendary for reason.
Yep!
Is that what they call a long shot at comedy ? Thanks for another great video
HA! Yes. Although, I feel I really hit the mark.
I always wanted a 1892 Winchester like Chuck Conners in the rifleman. It was my dad's favorite show and now it's one of mine.
Heckuva show. I actually like it better than "Have Gun Will Travel".
Andrew, what does your comment have to do with this great video?
@@ArizonaGhostriders "Have Gun..." tried to be cultured. It was more of an acquired taste, which made Paladin more fun to watch, later in life, after I'd had more life experience and improved my understanding of history. He makes jokes I wouldn't've got, 20 or 30 years ago, before I acquainted myself with Archimedes or Plato. "Have Gun..." has legs, in that sense. It's fun to come back to, many years later, and watch it from an older person's perspective.
All that being said, Chuck Connors workin' an 1892 with one hand is iconic. Tall, strong man with that light "short rifle" is a lot of fun to watch. But I always go back to when the first Henry rifles came into use. Long, heavy rifle. More like the Sharps in that way. And I think they held more rounds.
When I see a Winchester lever action, I think 30-30. But I'm gonna check out what they were using for ammo in the 1892.
Awesome video! This reminds me of Jack Hinson, a man of means during the civil war who wanted to stay out of it..until union troops mistook his sons (who were hunting) for bushwhackers and killed them. They cut the heads off and planted them on his front gate..he went and got revenge by sniping union officers and NCOs who made supply runs up and down the river. You can still go to his cave today and look down over that river - how the heck he made those shots, beats me! But the union were pretty scared of this guy and assumes there was a whole guerrilla force in those hills. Rather than a single man. This is some rifle! Exciting times
Great history. Thanks!
The carbine gained legend status during U.S. Civil War and was popular even post war. Rifle was an iconic sharpshooter arm with both hunters and target shooters. As well, widely used by military sharpshooters.
Yup.
That's one fine firearm. There is also a famous scene in the fil Valdez is Coming depicting the might of Sharps. One of the most memorable moments in Western film history.
I was going to use a clip from that, but couldn't find a good high def version.
Bill Dixon has always inspired me to become a better shot with a rifle. And Bill Hickok with cap & ball pistols. I have a nice Sharps in 45/70, and a fair collection of cap & ball pistols. It's something to score impressive shots with this older tech. because a lot of people seem to dismiss them when it comes to accuracy and lethality. Great post guys, thanks for all the work you put into your videos.
I appreciate you watching and commenting. Wish I had a .45-70!
@@ArizonaGhostriders : to be totally honest I acquired a Peabody Martini in .43 Spanish that by written accounts is better than the 45/70. We'll see when the snows gone. I've gotten brass and bullets and have the first 20 ready to go. So side by side test is coming. Hahaha It would be interesting to hear about some of the different rifles and odd calibers in the west.
@@hamm6035 will work on that. Thanks.
ive deff mastered cap and ball revolvers... can easily hit targets 50+ yards out with mine.. but for some reason rifles.. i cant seem to hit targets beyond 50 yards.. even with my 1874 sharps quigley. guess i just suck with rifles
I met that guy you showed shooting at Quigley made him a bunch of 45-110 brass and came all the way over from Germany. I Loves these rifles got me a couple of Shilohs in a 44-77 and 45-100 and a original borchard in 45-110.
Cool!
I've always had the opinion that some of the sharpshooters back then where probably better than most realize these days. As had a friend who grew up dirt poor put it this way, "I had to learn to shoot. With dad working I had to hunt. Shoot more than 3 bullets and have no meat and I'd have to go cut a switch."
Being hungry can make you learn a skill quick.
Annie Oakley had to kill what she shot at or they wouldn't eat. Plenty of those stories in early America!
I had the pleasure of waking up at 7am this morning to have a good laugh to start my day. Thank you... Laughter is my drug of choice these days... LOL...
Good! Hope you learned something too.
Great video as always, Santee. The Sharps was the long range rifle of its day while the equally iconic Winchester was the working rifle.
The Remington and Spencer were also popular.
Hey Santee, what's with the 'odd' hours for uploading? You always seem to be up around 2-5am PT. Natural night owl?
Morning person. I try to get it uploaded by 5am.
Love the humour guys. Nice little clippet of this most iconic rifle.
Gonna get me one o' them.
Perfect!
My Great Great Grandfather was Christian Sharps…very proud of him.
Nice!
I own an 1832 Sharps and get a lot of entertainment by taking it to gun shows and letting people handle it. The security guards and police really appreciate it.
I bet. As long as they aren't on the business end!
49 seconds into the video we are informed that the Sharps Rifle was designed in 1848! Could you mean 1852, rather than 1832? My hubby just aquired a 45-70 Sharps Long Range made in Montana. Beautiful rifle.
I have three sharps, one speghetti sharps 45-70 and two Shiloh Sharps 45-70's. One is a 30" Hartford model ( almost Quigley minus the patch box) the second is a deluxe Montanna Rough Rider in 34". Both sport heavy barrels and long range vernier sights. I have competed years ago in Florida's State championship black powder cartridge rifle shoots and placed.
Nice!
I have had the pleasure of shooting a Sharps carbine. It was the type that took a paper or cloth cartridge and a percussion cap. I like the Sharps. Josey Wales also carried one with a scope mounted on the top that was the same length of the barrel. You know of the Missouri Boat Ride. Great seeing Ron Cameron again. I am a member of Clan Cameron and wear the Cameron kilt. Another great video.
Awesome comment Eric. I'll tell Ron you are a Cameron!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Cool! I am a member of the Grandfather Mountain Branch of Clan Cameron here in NC. I am descended from the Cameron's on my mother side through the Taylor's that are a Sept of Clan Cameron. Very proud to be a Cameron.
I finally got back on here because my phone went completely haywire but I will tell you something my friend I like your show and I like your contents on it and I would like to know more of the Great West from your show it gives out a lot of information and a lot of details and everything else and the history of everything that's the reason why I like this program so much it keeps everything up to date this world's going to go right back to the old west and people need to realize that
Thank you!
Those wild west shows look so damn entertaining 😄
I remember when i was a kid i was at this amusement park who had made a pretty authentic looking old-west town, the show they put on there looks like it don't compare much.. But it still stuck with me and sparked an interest in the old west at an early age.. Keep this stuff up, you guys probably have made impressions on alot of kids with these!
Also really enjoy your vids, found it after playing RDR2 like so many others 😅
Thanks for watching and enjoying!
I remember learning about that legendary long distance shot in college. Great installment.
Absolutely loved this episode. Thanks for showing the Sharps rifle Santee
You're welcome.
Mighty fine. Thanks Santee
Appreciated!
Here on a Rainy Los Angeles, California Morning. This Really Cheered Me Up. Santee. You are Comedy Gold. 🤭 The Episode was Very Informative. Not Cool that Everyone says Your last Line? But I wouldn't be Upset when Your Friend has a Gun !? 😱😒 Be Safe, and Thank You always for making me laugh. 😊
HAHAH! Thanks and so glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing.
I had no idea they had rifles so accurate and powerful that long ago!
Glad to hear you learned something!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I thought it would apply more to the ammo than the rifle.
Ooohh... Rex was not happy about that!
Y'all better run... And run fast 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️ 🦖
Great video, Santee 😊👍🏻
Thanks.
I'm in Cincinnati I thought I saw a guy in a weird hat , hauling ass
WEIRD hat? Now you've done it....I'm sending Rex after you.
Arizona Ghostriders oh sh*t he dead man
I am waiting for this rifle in red dead redemption 2.
Same!
In the first red dead redemption actually we can use the sharps (in the game is called "hunting rifle")
bryan moret right
Its leaked as of now in there game files
@@texanrebel1847 wait really
Santee you are my hero!
I love the USA history,greetings from Italy 🙋🏼♂️🇮🇹🇺🇸
Thank you so much!
Good one love those old long distance lead singers
Used the Sharps as a re-enactor with the 17th PA Vol Cav mine fired paper cartridges
Nice!
That bullet scene at the end is a great way to share a channel. I found ya'll that way with a nerf round from Jed I Knight, and have been happy I did. Thanks for all the great information and entertainment.
Thank you. I really hope to meet Jedi one day.
Wish we could getting in rdr 2. love this gun in real life and in game
Hell, I wish it was in part one. There was another good western game called Gun that featured it. Great game, well worth looking into. It's no RDR, but it quite clearly influenced it.
Right
Jules McGrules it’s actually in RDR but it’s labeled as the Buffalo Rifle.
@@toectter8886 not only that but the rolling block is a sharps I believe
Rockstar just leaked this rifle to online
great video. i love my new sharps so much fun
That little “ow!” I love it
hehe
This gun is amazing cool video Santee already cant wait for the next one.
Thank you very much.
You upload the videos on realy good time of day in Portugal.... thanks
Thanks!
Loved it!
Thanks, baby.
Lol love the bloopers..definitely a noice rifle I think I've seen a few paranormal investigations at the original factory I think it's the one.. isn't it amazing how they have gone from swords to bows to guns etc..1554 yards/meters I think you said the shot was is impressive
Great episode! Great gun! Great editing!
Thanks!
Thanks, Santee, another great video!
You're welcome!
I was fortunate to shoot a 45/120. I shot it twice. I did not want to shoot it 3 times. It had quite a kick!
Been there, and yes. I like to save it for the end of the shooting session.
Gave a like! It’s amazing the rifle is still in existence!
AlphaTraveler1 I guess people still hunt with it
The Sharps rifle was among the more modern firearms traded in Japan, post Commodore Perry. Contrary to what Tom Cruise would have you believe, the Samurai took to modern firearms in exactly the same way they had taken to them in the 16th century, ergo they loved them. If 'The Last Samurai' had had any respect for historical accuracy, it would have shown Samurai fighting the new Imperial army from trenches and in lines, with mostly muzzle-loading rifles. The lucky ones would have had Snider-Enfields... or Sharps rifles!
Cool Japanese history. Thanks.
That last clip was super awesome Santee!! Vert interesting info about the rifle.
Thanks, Martina!
Good staff guys ! Well you also have the 50-110 don't tell that to REX.......!🌟🌟👍👍👍🌟🌟
Oh heck no.
Little known fact; only Screen Actors Guild rules prevented this rifle from receiving second billing on "Quigley Down Under," behind Tom Selleck, but ahead of Tom Selleck's mustache.
No kidding? Wow.
You boys are silly and informative.. you always enlighten me with a smile.. thank you and take care
You're welcome. Much appreciated.
This channel is the most entertaining & informative five minutes at a time on TH-cam. How did it take me so long to find it?!
Not sure...but glad you're here!
Excellent episode! Right on target.
HA!
Amazing Upload As Usual 👌 Happy Weekend 😊
Thank you.
I live about an hour and a half from Forsyth. I should check that competetion out sometime.
Just make sure you are drive up behind them.
@@ArizonaGhostriders of course, wouldn't want to miss a video because there's a .45 cal hole in me.
Awsome vid. Thanks.
WAIT! Is that why it's called sharpshooting?!!
Well, I looked it up, and apparently not. It goes back to at least 1781 when it was used in a German rifle company "Scharfschütze" and later in the Napoleonic Wars.
Like 918 another awesome video thanks for sharing what a show that’s some awesome rifle the size of those bullets really enjoyed your amazing video you are the man great channel and you are simply the best thanks for being such a genuine friend
Thank you!!
Great stuff Santee !
Thanks.
Thanks, you’ve started my day with a smile.
Glad!
Great video and a beautiful rifle, nice work Santee 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you!
Ive shot a reproduction of the Quigley rifle a few times at the local gun club, its a beautiful weapon. I could see how someone with the time to train with this rifle could hit some rediculous distance shots. It was chambered in the .45-70 Government cartridge.
Lucky man! I've never shot a Sharp's, but I have had the pleasure of a rolling block. Fine rifles and very accurate.
Great Show
🤠
I myself have not yet even seen a Sharps, yet alone a clone.
Great video. As always very enjoyable
Thank you, Rusty.
Very nice rifle. Happy Saturday.
Thanks! Use one in your shooting competitions....bet you take out the whole target with it!
Another informative video. Love the edits and keep them coming. Cheers
Thanks.
Very dope,indeed. Yall rock!! Xoxo Jess
Thanks, Jess!
@@ArizonaGhostriders anytime
That guy with the Sharps had a great persona going on there. But darn, he was missing the knife. Great video fellas!!! 🤠😉
Thank you!
Please make a model 1887 video clearing up the browning-Winchester lever action vs. pump action situation, the true 7 round capacity of the gun (not 5, not 6), and how modern longer shells with crimps have given it a bad reputation for reliability. I haven’t proven my theory yet, but I imagine when I order 2.5 inch shells or paper 2-3/4 shells mine will run fine with them.
Love the videos.
I'll look into all this!
Arizona Ghostriders thank you so much!
Other guys who own the gun too have confirmed that paper shells and 2.5 inch shells work flawlessly in the reproductions.
Very entertaining video, loved it.
Thanks so much
Trail Dust Town!?!
I used to run that little shop you're standing in front of.
Pretty cool. I remember there being Old West clothing shops there. That one of 'em?
Yet another great episode, keep up the awesome work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much.
Don't mention it, you guys are awesome. Educational and funny as all hell.
Love the Sharps! Maybe an eventual video on the Smith Carbine? Pietta makes repros and it is just a neat gun.
Planning on it. Need to find someone who uses one for reenactment.
Arizona Ghostriders awesome!
Loving it!
awesome vid, thanks Cheese !!! the Cimarron 45-120 reproduction has been on my wish list for a long time... I asked my wife if I could sell her car to buy one, but she didn't think that was funny :-)
Yeah. Wives don't usually understand our enthusiasm for a gun that can shoot 1200 yards.
I like your idea sounds good to me 🤣
Cool nice job guys! 🤠
Nearly bought one once, but I got over it. Then I see this. Thanks, thanks a lot. ;)
Glad I could help! LOL!
Quigley Down Under got me interested in this rifle back when.
R.I.P Alan Rickman
Yes, we lost a good one with Mr. Rickman. He was excellent in every movie he made
What a beautiful rifle.
Yeah, it is.
Your collection of DVD western movies must be massive. Everytime I see one of your interesting videos. There's always a small clip from a western movie :) Bloody awesome upload my friend. Very interesting as :)
Thank you, Darren. Yeah...I have some movies, alright!
Beautiful Beast, love to have one, definitely on the wish list. 👍🏻🤠
Yeah...Jerry almost didn't give it back.
I have a 45-110 Shiloh Sharps. Got it a year ago. She's an expensive date. Still working up a good load I like for it. Lol
Get 'er done!
Fantastic job. on your video. Absolutely brilliant job well done. :)
Thanks
The way Ronauld handed that rifle over, I'd say he did not want it dropped.
He did not. It's a $1500 rifle.
@@ArizonaGhostriders beautifully built, impeccably well cared for and likely a good shooter. Can be difficult to replace a good one regardless of dollar value.
@@KowboyUSA When I watch the Quigley movie and how he bats people around with it....I wince for the rifle!
@@ArizonaGhostriders oh lawdy! It's almost painful.
Hey santee how about old western musical instruments?
On the list. Thanks.
Never seen this rifle in 4 months before because I remember my dad was hiding it from me the whole time when ever he goes hunting but anyways great video showcasing the rife 😀
Thank u santee, very cool
You're welcome.
A 500 grain bullet? Yeah, that will bring Godzilla down alright.
HA!
Great video!
Thanks.
Keep it up Santi good content
Thank you.
HEY SANTEE , WENT AN GOT ME A 45 70 HENERY A LOT CHEAPER , BUT ONE DAY I MIGHT GET A SHARPS . KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !
Henry, Sharps, they are all terrific. Smart purchase!
I don't know what Bill Brazelton was so scared about... He was ghosted years ago lol. Good episode Santee!!!
I'm not sure the mortal aspect is 100% gone yet.
I knew this video would be loaded with Quigley lol "this aint Dodge city.. and you aint Bill Hickock"
Yep
Great video 👍🏻
Thank you!
Really cool vid man n sweet gun
Thanks!
Good job. I picked one up just before the euro punched the prices up. Fun shooter.
I remember seeing them for as low as $650
Can you make a video on moonshiners of the old west
I can
:D
I love Quigley down under. One of the only movies that they got the guns right, especially the sound.
Yeah, but not the recoil. You touch off a 45-120, even in black powder, it's much more severe than portrayed in the film.
@@frankw7266 even 45-70 with modern ammo like say the hornady rtx which are hot loads.. without a rubber backing it will seriously put a hurt on your shoulder after a few rounds. My 1874 sharps i shoot Hornady RTC 325, and sometimes the federal rounds, and without my rubber stop at the end my shoulder hurts by 10-20 rounds
Great video Santee
Thanks, man!