Sharps patching machine

[Harry Eales]

if you can get ahold of the guys that sell loaded cartridges for black powder guns out of the black hills in s.dak. they have a working sharps paperpatch machine. they planned on useing it but that may not have happened. they may not be in business anymore. i know they moved a couple of times and i dont remember their name. talk to them on the phone alot years ago and was assured the machine worked fine and was in good shape. its still out their some where.

johnson1943,

If you ever recall their name and have a contact address I would be very grateful if you would let me know their particulars, either by posting here in this Forum or via a PM. Most obliged.

Harry

[BrentD]

Oh, I believe they were made, but I just don't think they exist any more.

As for loading 100 round on the prairie, not so hard. Casting would have been the hardest part. But either way, the machines that undoubtedly once existed have been searched for by dozens, if not hundreds, of serious collectors w/o success. I think they are long since left the mortal world as we know it.

Brent

[5.7 MAN]

I suspect they were rounded up during the scrap drives of WW I and WWII. Anyone have any idea when the last factory produced PP cartridge left the factory? I think for instance factory spencer ammo was catalogued until around WW I.