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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Jul 8th, 2025 at 9:15am
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pictures alway help
  
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #1 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 11:00am
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is it a 40-50 straight or bottle neck? The straight I beleave can be made from 30-40  brass, the BN is made from necked down, shortened 45-70 brass. Both are fine cartridges, low recoil and accurate with the right bullets and a case full of black powder.
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #2 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 11:30am
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Many of the 40-"50's were made in what was called a short range target rifle rather than a mid-range or long range target rifle. Nice little rifles. Like somebody already said, pictures, pictures.
  
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #3 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 3:34pm
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I make .40-50 SS brass from either .303 British or .30-40 Krag brass, whichever is cheapest. It's a wonderful smokeless powder cartridge, and makes the .40-50SS a good midrange cartridge with smokeless loads.
  
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #4 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 7:01pm
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Ken waters did one of his Pet Loads articles on the .40-50 Sharps BN using a Borchardt  Hunter's rifle (26" round barrel). It is in the May 1993 Handloader magazine but also appears in his Pet Loads book. Plenty of good info.
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #5 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 7:41pm
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I have two Remington Hepburns in 40-50 straight sharps and 40-50 bottle neck.
40-50 straight
30-40 krag
19-4198
Ideal #403173 (305 gr)
40-50 SBN
45-70 brass
21-4198
Ideal 403169 (260 gr)

  
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Re: Sharps Borchardt .40-50 information needed
Reply #6 - Jul 25th, 2025 at 4:36pm
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Hopefully this works. Did I read somewhere that I need to post 10 messages before I can post pics?
Guess we'll see.....

  
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