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Missionary

Missionary

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Welcome to the other side of the coin.
Before you give up on the butchered Sharps try over sized round ball in it. We may have a cousin to your Sharps. Maybe the same feller had it. It does not like any bullet but shoots .54 RB pretty good out to 50 yards. Never tried any farther as we hunt river bottoms and 32 yards is our longest shot on a corn cruncher.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Welcome! Times have changed and our understanding of making cast work changed with them. Lots of experience and knowledge here.
 
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Hightwelve

New Member
Missionary said:
Welcome to the other side of the coin.
Before you give up on the butchered Sharps try over sized round ball in it. We may have a cousin to your Sharps. Maybe the same feller had it. It does not like any bullet but shoots .54 RB pretty good out to 50 yards. Never tried any farther as we hunt river bottoms and 32 yards is our longest shot on a corn cruncher.
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I guess it made a lot of sense after the Civil War to do a quickie conversion of 1863 Sharps muskets to .50-70 cartridge and cut a few inches off the barrel. After all, there had to be thousands of them available for next to nothing. Still, it’s a shame that it wasn’t left untouched.

Thanks for the hint!

I’m guilty of breaking up an intact if we’ll worn GEW 98 for the action forty years ago. I stuck the stock and the barrel up in the rafters and now I find that they are worth serious money.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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You might want to look into Shooters World Buffalo Rifle powder. It is made by Lovex. They were the original maker of 5744 powder. This Buffalo powder is the 5744 powder as it was made for Alliant. That would be a cheaper alternative to the buffalo for those old guns.
 
Rick

Rick

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Staff member
:headscratch: Before Alliant 5744 there was Accurate. Accurate original powders were surplus powder from IMI in Israel. When the surplus ran out Accurate had it made but I don't remember by who.
 
JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
Ever since I heard about "Shooters World Buffalo Rifle" powder, I've been looking for it in retail stores in Minnesota and gunshows, But I have never ever seen any.
 
Rick

Rick

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Tomme boy said:
There has been 3 different manufacturers of 5744. Lovex was the original.
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That's possible, EXPLOSIA/Lovex has been in business since 1920. The first introduction of 5744 in the U.S. was from Accurate in TN as a surplus powder from IMI (Israel military Industries).
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
IMI bought "5744" because all of the US made "SR4759" was being used in the M-79 grenade cartridges, a two chamber round. Primer fired a small amount of fast burning powder that was directed to a larger charge of "SR4759", that pushed out the grenade. Used from 1961 in the single shot and then later in the under barrel launcher. Newer designed grenade cartridges no longer use this system.

Once Viet Nam was over, SR 4759 again became available for civilian commercial sales, however it was very expensive to make and retail to the small market. When Israel could again get the new DuPont production, they stopped buying the European made clone, as they updated to the new cartridges. Accurate Arms Company bought the rest of the Israeli surplus powder and packaged it in Tennessee as "MR 5744".

All of it was really good stuff made to military spec's, just remember to use reloading data for the maker of the version you have. All I have left is some of the IMI surplus powder, as I got a lot of DuPont SR 4759 for common use.
 
Rick

Rick

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Staff member
Was a sad day for me when the IMI 5744 was gone, it was the most accurate powder I ever used in the 7TCU Contender and was the cleanest burning as well. I never got the newly manufactured 5744 to work as well or burn as clean.
 
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shuz

Active Member
Welcome from Spokane Washington from a caster of 60 plus years, who used to live in western Pennsylvania. Go Stillers!
 
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BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Welcome from another Pennsyltuckian…. In which direction are you an hour away from Cabelas? I’m assuming that is the Easton Cabelas you’re talking about. I’m about 3 hours Northwest of there.
 
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