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Well, it is a Sharps! This is my new to me original Sharps Pepperbox pistol. Caliber 22 short, model 1A, so it's been around a while. :shock
The 22 shells shown are old BP 22 short rounds.
My gunsmith went through it and tightened her up a bit. We test fired it with 22 CB caps and it shoots fine. What a hoot!
We also fired one of the old BP rounds. Wow! Much more bang than a fella would have thought. They made some serious stuff back in the day!
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Now that's just plain cool! Love the grips. What do you figure the date of manufacture to be?
Tom
Tom
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
don Tomás wrote:Now that's just plain cool! Love the grips. What do you figure the date of manufacture to be?
Tom
Good question, don Tomas. I have researched it, and it is an early model 1A, but there does not seem to be any way to put serial number with a date of birth for the Sharps pepperbox. My guess is 1860-65?
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Vet! COMNAVFORV, Vietnam 68-70
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Very cool. Yours is very nice shape. Usually the gutta-percha grips are chipped up or just plain busted up. -------Those .22 BP rounds ARE a lot of fun to shoot. I've let loose a mess of them. Did 'ya ever notice, most original .22 BP rounds still work? Funny thing, I rarely get misfires with original BP rounds----------Sixgun
Sixgun wrote:Very cool. Yours is very nice shape. Usually the gutta-percha grips are chipped up or just plain busted up. -------Those .22 BP rounds ARE a lot of fun to shoot. I've let loose a mess of them. Did 'ya ever notice, most original .22 BP rounds still work? Funny thing, I rarely get misfires with original BP rounds----------Sixgun
This was my first experience with them. I was surprised that they went off at all! Pretty stout little critters!
The pistol has been carried a bunch. It is, as they say, worn smooth by the hands of time. That, and mostly right handed users, judging by the wear patterns.
I dropped it into my vest pocket the other day, and wondered how many times it had ridden in some fellas pocket, and what it has seen. Heck, that's what old guns are about.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Vet! COMNAVFORV, Vietnam 68-70
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Little Kate or stumpy Kate, how about Kate junior?
Very nice Sir, that would have to be under my pillow
What pray made you go for one of these? This piece is for the connoisseur so what led you down this path?
It isn't a "pepperbox". A pepperbox has a number of barrels that rotate under a single hammer/firing pin. The Sharps is a multi barrel Derringer. The barrels don't rotate, the firing pin moves.
Dastook wrote:That little thing is very cool. Where is the druel icon?
Here ya go...
Tom
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
Nath wrote:Little Kate or stumpy Kate, how about Kate junior?
Very nice Sir, that would have to be under my pillow
What pray made you go for one of these? This piece is for the connoisseur so what led you down this path?
I have an addiction for old guns, mostly Winchesters. A buddy of mine has one of these little Sharps, and we spent an afternoon shooting it. I was hooked! Had to have one. Spent a long time looking for one of the copies to no avail, before I finally wake up to the fact that I could have an original. Now I am looking for one in 32!
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Vet! COMNAVFORV, Vietnam 68-70
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Nath wrote:I like your tastes Sir
Will you carry it?
Kinda fun to add to the vest pocket, just in case I have to defend some Lady's honor!
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Vet! COMNAVFORV, Vietnam 68-70
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My Grandfather had one of those. I was hoping to find it after he passed away. I'm sure he sold it when they started to appreciate. Did get a bunch of good stuff. But there were a few I'd seen over the years that probably got traded off. There was a nickle plated stag gripped SAA that dissapeared too.
I'm sure he carried it around with him. Way before we had CCW permits.
jasonB " Another Dirty Yankee"
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2ndovc wrote:My Grandfather had one of those. I was hoping to find it after he passed away. I'm sure he sold it when they started to appreciate. Did get a bunch of good stuff. But there were a few I'd seen over the years that probably got traded off. There was a nickle plated stag gripped SAA that dissapeared too.
I'm sure he carried it around with him. Way before we had CCW permits.
Yep, carrying a pistol in your pocket was just good judgment!
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Vet! COMNAVFORV, Vietnam 68-70
NRA Life, SASS Life, Banjo picking done cheap!
This is my new to me original Sharps Pepperbox pistol. Caliber 22 short, model 1A, so it's been around a while. :shock
