Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878
- Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single shot hammerless falling block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. It closely resembles older Sharps Rifle but has firing mechanism uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle. It was the last Sharps single shot rifles, the Borchardt did not sell very well. Some 22,000 rifles were made in all models from 1877 until the Sharps Rifle Co. closed down in 1881. The majority of these were military rifles. These guns were popular among long-range shooters and varmint shooters. Many of these guns were rechambered to be small bore varmint rifles.
A company known as Borchardt Rifle Corporation has started fabrication reproduction M1878 Borchardt rifles.
ee also
*Farquharson rifle
*Ruger No. 1
External links
* [http://www.rifleshootermag.com/gunsmithing/sharps_1125/ Remodeling an 1878 Sharps Military Rifle into a Midrange Target]
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