No Pyrodex or waterglass today ... ;)

[Erwan]

Hi,

What is the historical meaning of the floating chambers with the Sharps rifles?
I have a real Sharps carbine (yeah: a real Pedersoli Sharps 1863 ... ) a friend owns a genuine Sharps carbine (a true 24-year-old IAB). Today's debate has focused on this difference: I have heard of a rifle without a floating chamber, but even more of carbines with the tube sliding in the barrel ...

Someone knows what is the most historically consistent model, I have always seen with this and that on our side of the sea we have another culture of weapons ... A culture that is going to be more difficult when the government European decides, soon we will need an authorization for the fronds, you know: the stuff with rubbers ....

Sorry for my very basic language but the time of school is very far now ...

Have a good day everyone

 

[Panzerschwein]

Hi,

What is the historical meaning of the floating chambers with the Sharps rifles?
I have a real Sharps carbine (yeah: a real Pedersoli Sharps 1863 ... ) a friend owns a genuine Sharps carbine (a true 24-year-old IAB). Today's debate has focused on this difference: I have heard of a rifle without a floating chamber, but even more of carbines with the tube sliding in the barrel ...

Someone knows what is the most historically consistent model, I have always seen with this and that on our side of the sea we have another culture of weapons ... A culture that is going to be more difficult when the government European decides, soon we will need an authorization for the fronds, you know: the stuff with rubbers ....

Sorry for my very basic language but the time of school is very far now ...

Have a good day everyone

I believe the Pedersoli paper cartridge Sharps are not close in design to the originals. Others will chime in but there are several differences in the mechanism.

 

[Erwan]

I believe the Pedersoli paper cartridge Sharps are not close in design to the originals

Hi Cooldill,

This is true and I think so too, but I still have a doubt about these floating rooms, unimportant in fact: mine has been blocked for a long time and no longer floats.
I'm just curious about this: here we hear everything and its opposite when people talk about old American weapons ...

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

The original Sharps that I assembled from parts in the '70's did not have this. The 1853 Sharps that I now have does not have it either. My IAB Sharps repro does not have it. I think this is just Pedersoli and this explains their reasoning:
http://www.bpcr.net/site_photos/2004_Pedersoli_images/pages/42_jpg.htm

 

[Erwan]

Thank you Ephraim Kibbey for this particularly interesting link ...

I like to ask this kind of question here because these weapons are part of the history of your country and so your story ...
Of course in my country we know some things but it's still a bookish culture and a lot of "people say this or say that", nothing really true to believe ...

In any case my Sharps 59/63 works well even with the floating chamber blocked, so the real old ones might not have needed: the plate goes well and this is enough to avoid excessive exposure to the hot gases and keep pressure .. .

Good evening.

 

[Erwan]

Hi, Cooldill and Ephraim Kibbey,

You were right, I very little modified the mobile plate of my Sharps Sporting to release it and tested today with new linen cartridges: it is enough that the plate advances forward and be free for the system to work Perfectly, no excessive fouling and a very correct grouping at 50m with 15 bullets (high but sights set for 100m), Sunday it will be a new test at 100m but now I know that those rifles work perfectly without floating chamber.

Spoiler

Thanks for all.

Erwan.