This may be the piece you were looking for: http://members.tripod.com/~powderburns/sharps.html Indeed, that is exactly what I was looking for. Ain't that a nice read.... I need to get me a .50 blackpowder rifle :D Well impressed by what it can do. It was about 5 degrees of elevation for a 1500 yard...

I once read a report where guys with computers, angular stands and a sharps (or several long guns, for that matter) tried to reconstruct the long hit that was made during the battle of adobe walls in 1874. It was found that that shot, with a fifty-cal. Sharps, was made in an angle rather high, Dixon...