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	Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was formed in Hartford, Connecticut.
		In 1855, manufacturing was moved to Hartford and continued until 1876.
		Although the company bore the name of Christian Sharps (1811 - 1874) he was not the principal owner and left the company to form a partnership with William Hankins in 1862, known as Sharps and Hankins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharps_Rifle_Manufacturing_Company (114 words)

	Civil War Sharps Carbines & Rifles
		In all the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company supplied 2,000 Berdan Sharps rifles and 17,134 carbines for the year.
		Arms: The Sharps rifles carried by the 42nd Pennsylvania were originally intended for issue to the 1 st and 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters.
		These rifles had been placed in storage in the Washington Arsenal to replace arms damaged or lost by the sharpshooters or to arm new recruits.
	www.pabucktail.com /Reference/coates.htm (1208 words)

	Connecticut - Biocrawler definition:Connecticut - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Manufacturing was aided by a plenitude of resources, including water power, wood for fires and building material, and iron ore, while transportation benefited from several excellent natural harbors, and navigable rivers leading all the way to Massachusetts.
		Christian Sharps designed the Sharps breech-loading rifle which in 1854 began to be manufactured in Hartford by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.
		Another area where precision manufacture led to industrial dominance for Connecticut was in the manufacture of clocks, watches, and other timepieces, by Eli Terry and his apprentice Seth Thomas, the Forestville Manufacturing Company (which became the E.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Connecticut (2973 words)

	Christian Sharps Biography / Biography of Christian Sharps History of Invention Biography
		Sharps, a native of Washington, New Jersey, was employed under gunmaker John Hall (1788-1841) at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, before relocating to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1844.
		Later, the Sharps rifle became the preferred gun of buffalo hunters because of its power and long-range accuracy.
		Sharps' invention featured a hammer with a ratchet that revolved the firing pin by cocking and firing the four barrels in rotation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-christian-sharps-woi (272 words)

	Berdan Sharpshooters Online
		A near mutiny ensued when five-shot Colt revolving rifles were issued as a stopgap measure until the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company tooled up to produce the required number of rifles.
		The cords and tassels were used on the bugles, used instead of drums to sound calls for the “chippies” as the Sharpshooters were nicknamed by the soldiers of the 14th Brooklyn because of their use of bugles for reveille.
		Green coats and Sharps rifles became trademarks of the Sharpshooters, but it was their gallant service through the war that made them a Civil War legend.
	www.berdansharpshooters.com /art.html (1990 words)

	National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
		And, during this same revolutionary period, most domestic companies also competed with their European cousins in fashioning elegantly ornamented arms displaying the special skills of master polishers, platers, engravers and inlayers of steel; and expert checkers and carvers of rare woods, ivory and pearl.
		However, it was the later, Model 1874 and Model 1878 Borchardt, metallic-cartridge sporting and target rifles (often outfitted with refined sights and special triggers) that attained lasting acclaim for Sharps on the buffalo ranges of the Great Plains, and on the more formal target ranges of Great Britain, Ireland and the United States.
		Not unlike the Colt establishment, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, Connecticut, operated as a center of excellence in American firearms manufacturing during the second half of the 19th century.
	www.nationalcowboymuseum.org /g_weit_info.html (1503 words)

	Arizona Arms Assoc. Newsletter, September 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first Sharps firearm was patented in 1848, and by 1850, the first models of Sharps Sporting Rifles were being made in Mill Creek, Pennsylvania by the firm of A. Nippes.
		Since Christian Sharps is so well known for the superb longarms that bear his name, few people are aware that he also secured a U.S. Patent in 1862 for improvements to the pinfire cartridge.
		I was happy that I didn't have to unload a bunch of obvious gun stuff, such as hard rifle case, OD ammo can, and typical range bag at the end of my driveway in front of my neighbors, their kids, and the tow truck driver.
	www.azarms.com /September2003.htm (1274 words)

	The .50-70 Government: America's First Big-Bore Centerfire
		The progression of the development of breech loading rifles before and during the war ensured that the replacement for the 1863 Springfield rifled musket would be a breech loader using self-contained metal cartridges.
		Metal cartridge-firing repeating rifles, like the Henry and Spencer, further proved the viability of the breech loader, even though the fire power of these repeaters was largely deemed by the military to be a waste of ammunition.
		Rifles in.50-70 are harder to find than are.45 caliber chamberings, but Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing, Ballard Rifle Company, and C Sharps Arms all list the.50-70 as one of their standard chamberings.
	shootmagazine.com /articles/firearms/50-70_govt.htm (2536 words)

	Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was formed in (additional info and facts about Hartford, Connecticut) Hartford, Connecticut.
		Although the company bore the name of (additional info and facts about Christian Sharps) Christian Sharps (1811 - 1874) he was not the principal owner and left the company to form a partnership with William Hankins in 1862, known as Sharps & Hankins.
		Shilo Rifle Manufacturing Company in (additional info and facts about Big Timber, Montana) Big Timber, Montana offers a line of Sharps reproductions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/sharps_rifle_manufacturing_company.htm (118 words)

	Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1856, the company was producing 150 weapons a day; and the product's reputation for exceptional quality, workmanship, and design had spread around the world, making Colonel Colt one of the ten wealthiest businessmen in the U.S. The honorary title was awarded by the Governor of the State of Connecticut for political support.
		Following Sam Colt's death,control of the company remained in the hands of his widow and her family until 1901, when the company was sold to a group of investors.
		The company celebrated its 150th anniversary with a line of commemorative firearms, which included the Single Action Army Sampler Edition, with engraving of four historical patterns representative of famous Colt engravers, and an engraved Single Action Army Exhibition model which was sold at auction for $150,000.
	www.coltsmfg.com /cmci/history.asp (3107 words)

	Little Sharps Rifle - Lil Reliable
		The Little Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was founded in 1996 by Ronald Otto and Aaron "Duke" Pursley of Big Sandy, Montana to produce a 20% smaller version of the original Sharps rifle.
		The dependable old reliable design of the original Sharps rifle has been begging to be manufactured in a lighter rifle in smaller calibers for over a century.
		Each rifle is individually hand crafted and finished by Ron and Duke in their workshop in Big Sandy.
	www.littlesharps.com /pages/menu.html (180 words)

	Christian Sharps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christian Sharps (born New Jersey, 1811 - died 1874) designed the Sharps breech-loading rifle.
		Although the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company bore his name, he was not the principal owner and left the company to form a partnership with William Hankins in 1862, known as Sharps and Hankins.
		This article about an engineer, inventor or industrial designer is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Sharps (85 words)

	Sharpie - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sharpie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the United States, Sharpie is a line of permanent markers manufactured by the Sanford company.
		It is prized for its ability to write a clear, well-defined, non-smudging, durable line on glossy surfaces.
		Bob Daenen, brand manager for the Sharpie line, originally said company officials were not interested.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Sharpie.html (312 words)

	Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center
		For the first year the income of the company was $4,498, and the expenses $530, of which $300 went in salary to the secretary, with an allowance of $30 extra for rent and firewood.
		To his good sense and judgment it is due that this company, intended to meet a great public necessity, was organized on a purely mutual basis, the policy-holders owning all the property, getting the benefit of all savings, and managing affairs them-selves through a body of directors chosen annually from their own number.
		For the first five years the company occupied a single room six-teen or eighteen feet square, and for the same period the floor of the vault was spread with papers for the protection of the books, from the unwillingness of the officers to go to the extravagance of fitting it up with shelves.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/hartford/hartford.html (20797 words)

	Wikipedia: Gun
		For modern artillery the projectile is a shell, containing explosives.
		Technically speaking, the projectile is the weapon and the gun is the weapon platform, although with the use of bayonets and rifle butts as clubs, the double usage of the word could be forgiven.
		Handgun (Also called a pistol; a gun used for short distances, fired from the hand).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/g/gu/gun.html (188 words)

	Sharp Electronics Store - Sharps Rifle Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christian Sharps, originator of the Sharps Rifle Company, was born in New Jersey around 1822...
		Axtell Rifle Co, The Riflesmith, Manufacturer of 1877 Sharps Rifles an
		Axtell Rifle Co, Manufacturer of 1877 Sharps Rifle and Rifle Sights from the 1800's.
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	History News Network
		Secondly, the rifles for shooting buffalo were ineffective before the latter years of the Civil War (1861-1865), at which time accurate, large-bore rifles came on the market.
		It was what the white hunters dubbed the "Big Fifty," that is, the Sharps rifle, first produced by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut.
		As a consequence, the Sharps became the new firearm of choice, for it was both accurate and lethal up to six hundred yards.
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	Sharps Collector Assocation - Who we are
		the firearms of Christian Sharps and the Sharps
		The breech-loading rifle, invented by Christian Sharps and patented in 1848,
		With the original Sharps factory letters and extensive correspondence from the
	www.sharpscollector.com /about_us.html (74 words)

	Guns Magazine: America's first fifty - Big Fifty
		This was accomplished by boring out and inserting a.50-caliber liner in the.58-caliber barrel, and thus the Springfield Model 1866 was born, later incorporating a number of improvements to be known as the Models 1868 and 1870.
		In short, between military trapdoors, rolling blocks and Sharps and commercial sporting rifles, there were a lot of.50-70s manufactured in the 1860s and '70s.
		Velocity from the 36.6 inch Springfield rifle barrel was approximately 1,250 fps.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_4_50/ai_113853250 (1475 words)

	History of U.S. Powder, Gun and Ammo Manufacturers
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		The company is founded by Franklin Olin, who had earlier started Equitable Powder Company.
		The company is founded by Franklin Olin, who had started Equitable Powder Company in 1892.
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	SHARPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Dictionary sharp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Pope Manufacturing Company started bicycle manufacture in a sewing machine factory owned by the Weed Sewing Machine Company, which before it had its own factory had contracted the production of its sewing machines to the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company (in fact the sewing machine company eventually bought the rifle company's factory).
		New England manufacturers were scornful of the lower quality product, but it did the job.
		railroads were the first large, spread-out companies, and they developed new management techniques based partly on a military model.
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	Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company 1947
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		An agreement to sell Colt Firearms Division to C.F. Holdings Corp. was announced in 1989, and in 1990 the company was sold to a coalition of private investors, the State of Connecticut, and the union employees (renamed Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc.).
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