What's the craziest rifle...

sporterised 7.5 jap

I am not sure what "craziest" means but I suppose "unusual" might suffice.

I once shot a woodchuck with a Sharps 45/120 (actually it is a .45 X 3.25" going slightly over 120grs of black powder) if that counts.

Shot - I have shot a 40mm Lahti which is technically a rifle (albeit an anti-tank rifle - but it is shoulder fired from a bipod) but as far as more portable stuff, I once owned a .510 Wells Express. It weighed 14 lbs so it wasnt so bad compared to my 8.5 lb .458 Lott.

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R.R.

Craziest is correct... When I was a young and DUMB kid a friend got a 4ft piece of brass tubing for me and I rammed a bolt into the rear to plug it and drilled a flashpan about 1" from the back. I then poured in about a shotglass full of blackpowder and some paper to keep in in. Luckily we were both holding it and standing on either side when we set it off... because the bolt we used to plug it shot out like a bullet.

And FYI... the Lahti anti-tank gun is a 20mm which is about .80cal. But the entire cartridge is physically almost 3 times the size of a .50 cal.

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I have a 375 h&h Mag it will set you back a step if your not expecting it .
Not a bad gun if your shooting over a few hundred yards like 6 or more .
I call it my AT&T rifle for making long distance calls .
got a nice 8 point at 300 yards using iron sights
My normal deer rifle is pretty simple a winchester 44mag lever action saddle rifle with a 16" barrel

I'll second the above statements!!!!
Also when you run out of ammo you can still use it as a club till you find more ammo and you don't have to worry about hurting the rifle....lol

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Now as to shooting some crazy (unusual) rifles, I've shot 1859 Sharps rifles (repros), an 1874 Sharps rifle in 45-70, an original Smith rifle, a Spencer rifle (repro), plus other reproduction rifles. The Mosin M44 is always a fun rifle, a Win 1200 with an 18" barrel and pistol grips will make you think twice about using pistol grips again...LOL

We shoot on a fairly regular basis with friends and family so we get to shoot a variety of firearms...

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sharps- did someone say sharps?

one of mine... a boring but reliable 45/70 for now

Confession : I once shot a very old 22cal Benjamen air rifle at a squirel thru the knot hole in the branch of tree at xxxxxblock of Main street Peoria IL which is directly across the street from Bradley University's business building. The tree rat stood up on the branch and fell over dead. Upon examination, we found it was shot right between the eyes as it was spying on us. No more running across the metal roof of the house early in the morning...kept it out of the attic too......two witnesses observed the event..

Nice looking Sharps Paul. Beautiful wood.

Nice Sharps, tallpaul..

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I have never shot a .300 Weatherby but the Weatherby's I have shot were great. I already had a lot tied up in my Remington and had already sent it to the shop for an up grade before I ever shot a Weatherby, but I would have went with that rifle had I shot one before hand. That rifle in .300 magnum has got to be way better at long range than my .06 is and it's good.

I have hit gallon jugs of water ( I just love to fill up old milk jugs and taking them way out and shooting at thim) but the best I ever did was with a Barret .50 single shot at what the owner said was 1,400 yards. My range finder was only good for about 400 yards, but I know it was way on out there and it is amazing what a 40 power scope will do with a rofle as accurate as a barret is. That scope makes it look like it's maybe 100 -200 feet from you.
You know it ain't but 1,760 yards in a mile so I have to say that is the most incredible rifle I have ever shot.
If I had of had that in Nam I could have just walked back to the LZ for the chopper. Wouldn't had to run cause I would have had a bigger head start,, LOL.
I love long range shooting because you can make so many eys get really big when they are looking thru a spotters scope when a jug blows up. Heck, you can't even see a gallon jug that far away with a naked eye. Not even at 800 yards out. They can't believe what they just saw with there own eyes. : And I really like it when there is money on the table saying I can't do it.

Paul, that is a nice looking sharps. Is it a reproduction. I ask because of the check piece on the stock. Just wondering where you got it and what the cost was.
I built daddy a .50 cal. musket for Christmas one year from a kit. Any chance that came from a kit??? If it did it looks like you did some fine work on it.
I did the best I could on daddy's but I wasn't but about 12 or 13. That thing knocked me slap on my azzzz the first time I shot it. And then my x - BIL stold it and sold it and we never did find it again.
I guess that was another crazy rifle I shot. Or should I say got kicked by., LOL.

I've hunted with muzzleloading shotguns, rifles, and flintlock smooth bores (fusils), but never thought they were too crazy, though I did have thoughts about myself at times. Now the only "odd" guns I hunt with are my Marlin 1895CB .45-70, and my Marlin 1894cl .25-20. I did once own, and hunt with, a "Remington Rider" breakdown single shot in 12 ga, it was probably the strangest gun I owned, given it was the only one of its kind I've seen.

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it is made by Shiloh Sharps... they started up but are not ORIGINAL...

Here is info and time frames etc... http://www.shilohrifle.com/ be careful though - that sight causes lust every time I go there

I ordered this and another over ten years ago and it took four years or so to get them... the waits are not that great and some are available new but now from folks that bought them to resell for a couple hundred over cost without the wait...

Mine has a few upgrades as the pewter fore end caps and wood upgrades...

I need a couple sets of "proper" sights but have not gotten around to it ...

I have a twin to it also... I am thinkin of sellin one- since I haven't shot either since I got them and I need ta streamline a bit ....

I would love ta harvest a deer or pigs with one of em thats for sure... elk or bison would be fun too

TP it seems you have too many of the 45/70's so I'll be glad to help you out by taking it off your hands. :banana02: You know just to give you more space in the gun safe . ya kno what I mean?? .