1874 Sharps .45-70 Heavy Target Rifle

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Jethro
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1874 Sharps .45-70 Heavy Target Rifle

Post by Jethro » Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:33 pm

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This is my Davide Pedersoli 1874 Sharps .45-70 heavy target rifle. It has a 32" heavy target barrel and weighs in at a whopping 13.5 pounds. At that weight, it is a bitch to fire accurately from an offhand position. It gets really accurate firing from a set of cross sticks.

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This is a regular 100 yard smallbore target that I took on at 200 yards using cross sticks. I am really proud of the three hole cloverleaf just above and to the right of dead center. They were the last three shots in the string that I fired.

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