guy82,
This will probably bore you to death but here is the link for one of the Sharps builds I did. The browsed through it again and some of my wanderings are almost embarrassing. The rifle is only slightly further along than the very last photo, sitting in one of the safes begging to be taken to the range again, ammo is loaded and ready for that day...
In the post includes pics of the fixture I made for facing and threading these actions. A few others here on this forum have made this design and done a few actions. I use mine frequently and tend to start several of these action castings in a given year...
How long for a build start to finish? It depends... a Sharps has a lot of parts and pieces to fit and come together. This particular one, I'm nearing 350 hours. Another slightly different version, has almost 200 in it and it's probably 250 hours from being how I see it as finished. (that's finished, not operational and used in a match of some sort...
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I shot one of my builds yesterday in a match, it performed quite well and now almost has 100 rounds shot through it. Nowhere near finished with it and I got a few laughs and jousts until the last shots were fired...
My recommendation, is to start one if you have some of the skill sets for machining. I've been a machinist for 4 and 1/2 decades and these action projects have been my hobby for 3/4 of this time. Don't hurry any part of it, work a little, study a lot, research more, you'll learn a lot and broaden your horizons.
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