Shooting Sharps

[su_heading size=”30″]The gun that made it safe for the Winchester to win the West.[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”light”]C[/su_dropcap]hristian Sharps already had some limited experience with breechloaders when he patented his fallingblock action in 1848. He’d worked at Harpers Ferry where the Hall breechloaders were made, and many people have assumed that […]