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Jim_w
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Re: Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?
09/07/07 04:03 AM

Sharps cartridges were normally loaded with heavier bullets than the Black Powder Expresses.

One friend has a .450 BPE that does best with 300 grain bullets, and would probably shoot closer with 270s if he could find some, or a mould; while the big Sharps .45s, were normally loaded with 480 grain or heavier bullets for long range. Winchester offered a .45-125-300 to emulate the Express but it never caught on, you could do nearly as well with a .45-90-300 repeater.

Another friend loaded some .500 BPEs for a client with .50 Sharps or Government bullets heavier than the double was bored and rifled for and the bullets just keyholed.

Not the same cartridges, not the same applications.

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Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?	empirevr	08/07/07 08:49 AM
Re: Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?	Jim_w	09/07/07 04:03 AM
Re: Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?	empirevr	09/07/07 05:03 AM
Re: Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?	Jim_w	09/07/07 06:15 AM
Re: Sharps 50-140 vs 500 bpe?	empirevr	09/07/07 06:22 AM

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