Brentona
10-18-2022, 07:10 AM
Howdy All!
I had joined this forum years ago and fell off for one reason or another. The drive never left, the internet desire faded.
I am at a point in my life where this forum resonates with me much more clearly than when I first began. In any event, allow me to reintroduce myself with my two favorite rifles! Yeah, you can have two favorites! There aren’t any rules!
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Figure we’ll talk about this baby first. Early 90’s No.1 H in the venerable .375 H&H Magnum. So many things to say, I’ll start with this : I’m still young with good joints (31; 5’10 / firm 170#). The first center fire rifle I ever bought (two days after turning 18) was a new (JM) 1895GS. It has been a big bore love affair since. The recoil impulse, at least on my rifle, is mild in relation to how the internet built it up. I
laughed after my first trigger pull and excitedly shoved another 300gr solid (1850 fps) into the chamber. A nice big push, almost slow, if you will.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/31e89492df7437eab7c2fcace6fe43e8.jpeg
Red pad, good wood. The attractors that led me to the GB listing that NO ONE was bidding on. Do believe it was picked up for $1100…good news to me!!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/b6d0abc4ba4844c413b06e15362e6fe3.jpeg
This hunting season has been all buckshot so far. But when I get to colder months, the No.1 will get a chance to try her luck!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/539626d7d2a47221909da89196e7d422.jpeg
Ok, moving on…needle rifle…
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The decade long search was realized last year (2021). Ten years prior (as a twenty year old), the fire was lit in me. I first caught whiff of these rifles (1874 Sharps in general), and quickly learned everything I good of the fine folks in Big Timber. The cliff notes read as such -
Retired fella in North Carolina (25 minutes from where I USED TO LIVE!!) reached out to me informing me of his offer. He knew I was searching for a Pedersoli 1885 at the time. My now good friend told me he just couldn’t stand people paying the $$ for the Italians that used to be reserved for the Americans..a true man after my heart. I too hate gouging, price hikes, and anything that keeps a working man out of what USED to be their sport. So he gave me a month and an exclusive offer to gather funds. Being that this gun was so gravitational in my life, I began making For Sale ads in earnest. Well… money raised, rifle owned.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bce493b73572ec4930de92b5f57d3aa6.jpeg
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My friend in NC had Unertl mounts staked for his aging eyes. Man ALIVE does that man have some awesome glass to aid him. I wanted to shoot ‘er with peeps, and have a C.Sharps mid range on the rear…should heavily consider a Hadley to add to it. I also need to have a pair of glasses made up for me. Y’all know the kind I’m talking about. 36” in the dominant, infinite in the secondary. Enough blabbering!
So it’s a Montana RR, 30” hvy oct, a good off the rack they sometimes have in stock. Just a solid dagone rifle.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bfe52643241cd814ea3ab45b97ea0a51.jpg
One thing I did do, was remove the barrel sight. I didn’t really want to buy a blank…really I WISH I had a Buffalo nickel..but I figured I’d make a blank out of a Jefferson Peace Nickel.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bc2c8ecb9d1e629b0a1cc84a71d08bd0.jpg
It was such an easy little project, and I felt it made my rifle, more, MY rifle.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/3409e822eb38cf3feb08e268822e4903.jpg
Any way! There they are. My two (favorite) rifles, both single-shot!
- Brent
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I had joined this forum years ago and fell off for one reason or another. The drive never left, the internet desire faded.
I am at a point in my life where this forum resonates with me much more clearly than when I first began. In any event, allow me to reintroduce myself with my two favorite rifles! Yeah, you can have two favorites! There aren’t any rules!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/69b3ba53ea638fb1bf4c9b039ef0ca96.jpeg
Figure we’ll talk about this baby first. Early 90’s No.1 H in the venerable .375 H&H Magnum. So many things to say, I’ll start with this : I’m still young with good joints (31; 5’10 / firm 170#). The first center fire rifle I ever bought (two days after turning 18) was a new (JM) 1895GS. It has been a big bore love affair since. The recoil impulse, at least on my rifle, is mild in relation to how the internet built it up. I
laughed after my first trigger pull and excitedly shoved another 300gr solid (1850 fps) into the chamber. A nice big push, almost slow, if you will.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/31e89492df7437eab7c2fcace6fe43e8.jpeg
Red pad, good wood. The attractors that led me to the GB listing that NO ONE was bidding on. Do believe it was picked up for $1100…good news to me!!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/b6d0abc4ba4844c413b06e15362e6fe3.jpeg
This hunting season has been all buckshot so far. But when I get to colder months, the No.1 will get a chance to try her luck!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/539626d7d2a47221909da89196e7d422.jpeg
Ok, moving on…needle rifle…
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/3d020b8a969fbdb524a5bd473803783c.jpeg
The decade long search was realized last year (2021). Ten years prior (as a twenty year old), the fire was lit in me. I first caught whiff of these rifles (1874 Sharps in general), and quickly learned everything I good of the fine folks in Big Timber. The cliff notes read as such -
Retired fella in North Carolina (25 minutes from where I USED TO LIVE!!) reached out to me informing me of his offer. He knew I was searching for a Pedersoli 1885 at the time. My now good friend told me he just couldn’t stand people paying the $$ for the Italians that used to be reserved for the Americans..a true man after my heart. I too hate gouging, price hikes, and anything that keeps a working man out of what USED to be their sport. So he gave me a month and an exclusive offer to gather funds. Being that this gun was so gravitational in my life, I began making For Sale ads in earnest. Well… money raised, rifle owned.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bce493b73572ec4930de92b5f57d3aa6.jpeg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/5c091bed4ee2193ec8c7bd3af333f93d.jpg
My friend in NC had Unertl mounts staked for his aging eyes. Man ALIVE does that man have some awesome glass to aid him. I wanted to shoot ‘er with peeps, and have a C.Sharps mid range on the rear…should heavily consider a Hadley to add to it. I also need to have a pair of glasses made up for me. Y’all know the kind I’m talking about. 36” in the dominant, infinite in the secondary. Enough blabbering!
So it’s a Montana RR, 30” hvy oct, a good off the rack they sometimes have in stock. Just a solid dagone rifle.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bfe52643241cd814ea3ab45b97ea0a51.jpg
One thing I did do, was remove the barrel sight. I didn’t really want to buy a blank…really I WISH I had a Buffalo nickel..but I figured I’d make a blank out of a Jefferson Peace Nickel.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/bc2c8ecb9d1e629b0a1cc84a71d08bd0.jpg
It was such an easy little project, and I felt it made my rifle, more, MY rifle.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221018/3409e822eb38cf3feb08e268822e4903.jpg
Any way! There they are. My two (favorite) rifles, both single-shot!
- Brent
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk