![]() In fact it isn’t overly powerful by the standards of those rounds. It is stubby and doesn’t look overly powerful when compared to other black powder cartridges that appeared in the decade or so after it. 50-70 Sharps were turned on 7th Cavalrymen at the Little Bighorn. Perhaps not surprisingly, modern archaeology proved about three dozen of those “hunting”. Many of those along with ammunition were then handed out to various reservation Indians for hunting purposes. ![]() Tens of thousands of Sharps Models 1859, 18 military percussion rifles and carbines were altered to. Both models of rifle were prominent in the great slaughter of American bison herds during that time frame. 50-70 was the second biggest selling chambering until 1876. 50-70 and, in the legendary Sharps rifles. ![]() 1 “rolling block’s” introductory caliber was. 50-70 as one of their primary chamberings. ![]() All of the companies making big-bore, single-shot rifles until about 1880 relied on. 50-70 rounds were fired for hunting purposes than in combat. 50-70 caliber rifles or carbines on one side or the other or both. In fact it is doubtful if any substantial altercation between the US Army and Plains Indian tribes in the postCivil War era did not include. George Armstrong Custer personally carried when he led the famous 7th US Cavalry to disaster at the Little Bighorn Battle in southern Montana in June 1876. 50-70 was one of the most fired cartridges from their sharps “buffalo rifles.” O It was also the caliber of the Remington No. When a couple dozen whites were besieged by combined Comanche, kiowa and Cheyenne, at Adobe Walls in north Texas in June 1874, the. it was the primary reason why a few dozen us soldiers defeated a horde of sioux warriors at what became known as “The Wagon Box Fight” in northern Wyoming in August 1867. Mike “Duke” Venturino Photos: Yvonne Venturino f all the black powder, single shot, rifle cartridges i’ve worked with since 1981, the most historical is the. 50 Gov’t NoNeltheless served throuGhout the early post-civil war wild west.
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