Getting a good hit at 1,000 yards with an iron sighted black powder rifle certainly gives the sound of the bullet hitting the steel targets the “ring” of success.Thanks for taking the time to see our web site. 44/77 (Hefty Hannah) on the buffalo silhouettes with the Great Basin Sharpshooters down by Bend, Oregon with targets out to 1,000 yards. 44/77 on the “steel buffalo” at the Matthew Quigley Long Range Match in Montana and I’ve used my heavy.
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The only thing stopping me, is me… But I do use the. My hunting days might be behind me but even so, I do think about hunting deer or antelope with my. Once those dies, bullet molds, and brass cases are collected, all you need is a. The highly favored Jamison brass is no longer made but reformed cases are available from Buffalo Arms Company and newly made cases are being produced by Roberson Cartridge Company. They are made by Accurate Molds, Steve Brooks, and KAL in Canada. While reloading dies must be ordered, getting a bullet mold for the. 44/77 today does require some special order tools for reloading. Sitting behind cross-sticks, Mike uses “Hefty Hannah” on the Quigley range. 44/77 in their rolling block rifles after Sharps had discontinued it in 1876 as a standard chambering. 44-2 ¼” as a chambering for their Sporting Rifles and gave it their own designation, the. Sharps and Colonel Berdan were certainly not strangers. 42 Berdan which also used 77 grains of powder. 43 Spanish which was also developed in 1869 by UMC or, like the. 44-2 ¼” cartridge was originally made and developed by Sharps, either from the. That in an advertisement in Army and Navy Journal when Remington was highlighting their new version of their #1 rolling block, the long range Creedmoor model. 44/77 by Remington did not take place until the latter part of 1872, about the time that production of their #1 Sporting Rifle really got under way. According to Roy Marcot in his excellent book about Remington Rolling Block Sporting and Target Rifles, the earliest mention of the. 44-2 ¼”, as it was usually stamped on the barrels of the Sharps rifles, loading it with either 70 or 75 grains of powder under 380 and 405 grain bullets. Sharps always referred to this cartridge as the. Sharps barrels did have a fine reputation. 44/77 with 32” barrel and the tall long-range sight.Īlso worthy of possible note is that Ballard bought their target barrels in. 43 when such a move would not be worth the tooling to do it?Ī rolling block re-built to. 43 Spanish, which was developed at almost the same time, so let me ask, why would Remington introduce such similar cartridges firing bullets only.
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44/77 first and that Sharps simply adopted it as a chambering in their Sporting rifle of 1869. Too many of us have believed that Remington had the. 44/77 was based on a Remington cartridge. Please bear in mind that I am really guessing at some of this but my few guesses are made, I hope you will agree, with a rather fair foundation.įirst of all, as Frank Sellers said in his book Sharps Firearms, the. 44/77 Sharps cartridge has never been made completely clear, in my humblest opinion, and I’d like to plant some seeds of thought in your minds about when and where this notable cartridge was developed. That gave this cartridge its most remembered name but it was still the. There were other loadings in this 2 ¼” case by other manufacturers and the use of 77 grains of powder was actually started by Remington, under a 400 grain bullet. Then after 1875 Sharps made a chance to their standard loading for this round, increasing the bullet weight to 405 grains and increasing the powder charge to 75 grains. Before 1875 the standard Sharps loading for this cartridge used a 380 grain paper patched bullet over 70 grains of black powder, so it could be called the. 44 caliber bottlenecked cartridge with the case length of 2 ¼ inches. The official name for this cartridge is actually the.
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44/77 with a 28” barrel and mid-range sight.