{"id":23337,"date":"2023-10-10T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/the-model-1874-sharps-rifle-and-the-45-120-cartridge-history-and-shooting\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:09:05","slug":"the-model-1874-sharps-rifle-and-the-45-120-cartridge-history-and-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/the-model-1874-sharps-rifle-and-the-45-120-cartridge-history-and-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Model 1874 Sharps rifle and the 45-120 cartridge &#8211; history and shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baGkfJPsWjw?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The 45-120 or .45 3 1\/4 inch cartridge is the strongest among all .45 caliber buffalo cartridges. It is truly a legend, and I am quite sure every western lover has a special place for it in his heart. This film is about its history, connected to the metallic cartridge models of the Sharps Rifle Company.<\/p>\n<p>How to make accurate paper patch cartridges for the 45-120: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/reloading-45-120-90692193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/reloading-45-120-90692193<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please check our patron page for exclusive content: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Please ask your question is the pinned comment!<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>0:00 Intro<br \/>2:28 Shooters opinion about the 45-120 cartridge<br \/>4:40 Recharging rounds at the field without tools<br \/>6:00 Shooting offhand to 300m on metal plate<br \/>6:36 Presentation of the Pedersoli 1874 Long Range Sharps<br \/>7:42 The buffalo hunt era<br \/>9:22 Shooting with grease groove bullets to 100meters<br \/>10:51 The buffalo rifles<br \/>13:05 The Sharps 1874 rifle and the history of the company<br \/>15:13 Billy Dixon&#8217;s long shot at Adobe Walls<br \/>17:06 Shooting paper patch bullets to 100m<br \/>19:46 The Creedmoor matches and the Sharps rifle<br \/>21:32 Shooting the 1st version paper patch bullets to 200m<br \/>23:52 How to clean lead from the bore<br \/>24:47 The end of the Sharps Rifle Company<br \/>26:04 The history of the 45-120<br \/>29:28 Shooting the final paper patch cartridge to 200m<br \/>38:25 How the buffalo runners reloaded their cartridges?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 45-120 or .45 3 1\/4 inch cartridge is the strongest among all .45 caliber buffalo cartridges. It is truly a legend, and I am quite sure every western lover has a special place for it in his heart. This film is about its history, connected to the metallic cartridge models of the Sharps Rifle&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/the-model-1874-sharps-rifle-and-the-45-120-cartridge-history-and-shooting\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Model 1874 Sharps rifle and the 45-120 cartridge &#8211; history and shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}