taw1126:  Go to the Shiloh Sharps forum and post a message for Kenny Wasserberger to answer this question.  I recall he has info on just such a rifle(s) you discribe  that were made up in the 110 cal. for target shooting.  He is a big fan of the 45-110's and has mentioned this Borchardt configuration before in the is calibur.   Best regards steve witt

taw1126, Yep, your right, I just could not remember exactly, all I knew was it was a similar chambering and rifle as you were talking about...sure wish I had one of either, you're a luck fellow.   steve witt

Taw. I have a Rifle very much like yours. Mine has the Paneled action and is equiped with midrange sights. Which by the way will reach out to 1000 yds. Not much elevation left but will get there. I have gotton on at 1000 shooting the Postell bullet at 535 grs ahead og 10 gr 4759 and 100 grs of Elephant Fg casefull and the bullet stuffed in 1/8" deep. The forend on mine is not keyed, it is held by the standard two screw arrangment. You have to realise that the last 1 to 2 years the factory was still building Rifles they were using up stock. So a lot of non standard rifles were shipped. Most folks believed that Sharps went broke. Not so. The company was privatley held by a group of investors. They made a couple of feeble attempts to develop repeating rifles and failed. At that point the investors made a business decision to "FOLD" the company and wring out all the cash they could from the physical assets. Land, Buildings, Machinery and such. If your rifle is one of those very late assembly's it will be in the serial # range up around 17,000 or later. The other side is that Borchardts were very well "MADE TO GAGE" and are very interchangable. I have restored a number of Borchardts simply by accumilating original parts, barrels, actions, wood etc. and ended up with some very nice rifles, not original but to the quick eye appear to be all correct. I have considered my my Rifle to be an Express Rifle as .45 X 2 7/8" was one of the express calibers. But it does shoot the heavy bullets very well. Only weighs about 11 Lbs though and the load I described kills on both ends. Congradulations on a accumilating a fine rifle. Regards, FITZ.