Reeder Custom Guns - Few fast pics for Tebbeman

I knew better but I just wanted it. I plan to do some casual pleasure shooting only for my own satisfaction and the fun with my friends. I do think it is pretty.

N.Y. Shiloh Sharps J.P. Gemmer model in .45-70.

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that is beautiful!

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My brother enthusiasts is what it’s all about. We only hold things fir a short while.

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That would be fun to elk hunt with,if someone else carried it for you. But it is beautiful

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I'll have to measure it and weigh it. My .338 Hunting rifle is knocking on 10 lbs. with a 2 lb. scope/mounts and the sling. (5) .338 cartridges weigh about 1/2 lb.!

I know it has to be close to 10 lbs. but it is very well balanced. That conceals a lot of the weight. It is not bulk since it's streamlined, that makes a difference too.

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Is a handhold in front of the rear sight. The lack of bulk and balance hide the actual weight. I’d die before I clubbed someone with it but to be honest I’m certain it’d be formidable used that way in the heat of battle.

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the wood grain is magnificent, like a pennsylvania rifle birch grain. truly beautiful

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WB, if or when you get tired of it, just let me know as its on my bucket list. Thanks. KT

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dont have the ramrod ??

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There was a historic gunsmith named J.P. Gemmer who made Hawken style rifles of the very finest quality. He incorporated some of the same manufacturing techniques into the transition models of paper cartridge breach loading and finally ctg. guns. The dual wedge pin forestock retention, early style front sights, and ramrod, and even classic longrifle wood, are all typifying marks of the J.P. Gemmer model Sharps. This one even has "browned" furniture like a fine old flintlock would sport. I'm still learning about them myself.

Shiloh only made a very few. Obviously the unique features added to the trouble as they departed from the bread and butter Sharps models.

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thought and out to be a great shooter/collector.

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(Speaking about sporterizing the surplus Civil War Spencers) - "Few shops tackled making a new buttstock because of the complexities of getting everything to fit together right--namely the lock, sling bar, triggerplate, magazine tube and buttplate all have to line up exactly. One shop was undaunted--the Hawken Shop, purchased from Sam Hawken by John Philip Gemmer in the 1860s. J.P. Gemmer, an able gunsmith in his own right, knew the frontloader's days were numbered and began to produce full-blown custom Spencers with the styling of the famed Hawken muzzleloader. (Gemmer soon added conversions of the more powerful Sharps and Trapdoor Springfield rifles, too, as the Spencer fell from favor.)"

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Before Shiloh Sharps (NY) and C. Sharps moved and worked some together in MT. Now C. Sharps only had the rights to "Old Reliable" markings. Both make made to order "Sharps" rifles in customer specified configurations and options. I was told the Shiloh Sharps parts can work with originals. The action is a 1874 pattern from modern steels. I guess they have them forged someplace.

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Few fast pics for Tebbeman

Scotty, that's just INCREDIBLE!!! If you get tired of it....

Not much of a rifleman but,

Alcorn said it all...............

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Nice

It's heavy but it's not. I think the barrel is 30"

FYI - 10 lb. 1/2 oz. w/29” barrel. Balance point

shiloh rifle

They told me it was Maple?!

I agree with Alcorn, beautiful.

Wowza!

That's really nice!

Gemmer

Is that a cartridge gun, the models I looked at

It is a very limited model .45-70 ctg. gun.

Yeah it looks like a transition model of sorts, very nice

Gemmer took over from Samuel Hawken in MO 1862-1915

Early 1900s vintage?

This was made in the mid 1980's