Posted by Tony in Mass. on December 21, 2011 at 19:43:26 from (76.118.216.103):
In Reply to: Re: OT Black Powder posted by Cal Innes on December 21, 2011 at 17:10:57:
In the south, yes, volunteers brought their own rifles, everyone who owned one brought their own. I believe... but I am often told I am wrong on here... yankee Col. Berdan's sharpshooters..... were usually shooting .... Sharps....1859 models, side hammer, straight dropping block .52 cal paper cartridge, tape primed...30 or 36 inch barrels with ladder sights. Most Confererate Sharps were exBritish Army, used in the Crimean War a few years earlier. But within mintues I will be told I am making it up....or off by .058", btw, in common practice, before this rifle became famous, an good shot was called a 'marksman'...
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