I am thinking of trying a heavier charge in my C. Sharps 50. It has a 2.5 chamber and as I understand the limited information I have, the same case was loaded with 90, 100, or 110 grs of BP. Loading the same 450 gr grease-groove bullet I have with 90 and 100 grs I get better accuracy with 100.

Anyone have more details of the loading with the 110 gr charge? Same bullet weights or a lighter bullet like the 50-110 Winchester?

burntwater wrote on Jul 29^th, 2024 at 1:03pm:


Really? Why? The 50-110 is not a military cartridge.

SchwarzStock, I'd bet that you missed burntwater's implication that a 50-110 was likely to be found in a turret on a fighting ship. I remember meeting a guy who brought back a liberated Winchester in 50-110 from Nam. Tiger rifle or rogue elephant?

Yes, I'm sure I'm talking about Sharps ctdge, as my reference to Marcot's book implies.

You wanted to know if it was originally loaded with a lighter projectile, it very much seems so and I only transfered the information ( p 361 of Sharps Vol 3)

ThXX Tom.

I have used a duplex load in my 50-70 often for hunting in AZ. Here it is not so dry so with the "Baby 50" I shoot pure Swiss. The "Big 50 is another matter. I have not found magnum primers to help in fouling control at all. My last load used D060 under Swiss 2F. I just bumped the BP charge to 90grs. Have to wait until next week to try it. My Schuetzenverein is open Tuesday and Thursday while the Jaegerverein is open Wednesday and Friday. The bad thing at the Schuetzenverein is the lighting, during the winter it is almost impossible to shoot opens sights since the range opens at 7 PM..

I have a 15lb C. Sharps, straight grip, rifle butt and from a bench even the lightest charge I shoot gets "un-fun" quickly. I do not envy you touching off that load in a 10lb gun

I have just stacked self-cut milk carton wads to get the OAL and compression.

Although I like Track I don't order much from them, shipping is pretty high for me and very slow. The only US company that gets stuff quickly to me is Summit Racing, typically 3 working days. I don't know why other companies can't do that. I have found with Track and a couple of other companies I am better off to have them send something to a friend or relative in the US and then have them remail it. An addition advantage is they can remove all the garbage packaging and get things in smaller boxes.

There is also the "minimum order" and "minimum shipping" that affects me as well. Both are gotten around with remailing bot sometimes I just "bite the bullet" and pay the local price when available....