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craigd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2045 Location: midwest Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2009	Re: 1873 Sharps 50 Bull Barrel Reply #30 - May 6^th, 2019 at 8:29pm	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on May 6^th, 2019 at 12:14pm: ...This is a perfect example of why many people do not participate in these forums. Seemed, past tense, to be an interesting project. Is perfection a one way street?


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Zack T Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 354 Joined: Apr 9^th, 2010	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #31 - May 8^th, 2019 at 8:30pm	Print Post
	Dave could you please link the sharps collectors site ? This arrogant collector would like to see the discussion for his own "education" Zack


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Zack T Senior Forum Member Online Posts: 354 Joined: Apr 9^th, 2010	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #32 - May 8^th, 2019 at 9:59pm	Print Post
	Hi Dave- no i am seriously just curious. If im wrong im happy to say so. From the "discussion" over there it doesnt sound like there were any actual opinions or actual discussion. This isnt a personal attack man. I simply expressed my opinion. I buy a fair number of sharps. I look at a fair number of sharps and I see a lot of sharps bought and sold. My opinion is based on those experiences. If there is other information or discussion that actually is robust and refutes my opinions i am happy to weigh those objectively otherwise this thread has gone on too long in this direction with me admittedly to blame in large part


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rollingblock Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 383 Location: Texas part of New Mexico Joined: Aug 19^th, 2012	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #33 - May 11^th, 2019 at 8:41pm	Print Post
	Let’s see. A halfway decent Sharps rifle is given to the “grandkids” say eighty years ago or so, and ends up in a leaky barn or wood shed. Today, it is brown and rusted up. It is still worth “thousands of dollars” to a collector? Really?


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15994 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #34 - May 12^th, 2019 at 8:59am	Print Post
	rollingblock wrote on May 11^th, 2019 at 8:41pm: Let’s see. A halfway decent Sharps rifle is given to the “grandkids” say eighty years ago or so, and ends up in a leaky barn or wood shed. Today, it is brown and rusted up. It is still worth “thousands of dollars” to a collector? Really? Yes, really! This phenomenon seems to be pretty common among old sidehammer Sharps sporting rifles. Of course they're worth more if kept in nice shape, but even rusty they bring thousands of dollars regularly.

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craigd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2045 Location: midwest Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2009	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #35 - May 12^th, 2019 at 12:52pm	Print Post
	I guess since the meat-n-taters of the thread are gone, this is only about the opinion of the definition of rust. Folks can do anything they want to their rifles in my opinion. The thing that makes me pause a bit, sometimes cringe, is if steel wool is taken to an antique. Yup, there could be a place for it, but it's probably taking a little bit of good stuff along with the bad.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3846 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #36 - May 12^th, 2019 at 1:18pm	Print Post
	Yeah, rusty old Sharps always bring more than rusty old rolling blocks, except, there was this dug up 50-70 one out of Montana with the initials GAC on it.......


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powderman Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 330 Location: British Columbia Joined: Feb 26^th, 2005	Re: 1873 Sharps 90 Bull Barrel Reply #37 - May 13^th, 2019 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	I have noticed there is a POLL with no question at the beginning of this thread. Is there a photo of the rifle being discussed in this thread? Kind of confused. Am I missing something? Regards, Powderman


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