Shiloh Rifle Forums

I have a Shiloh Sharps Schuetzen model in .38-55. It would fit me much better for offhand shooting if it had a palm rest. I was wondering if Shiloh ever made this model with a palm rest. Or if it could be retrofitted with a palm rest. Or if it simply was not really meant to be shot offhand.

I took a couple of pictures of an original Sharps schuetzen 1 pic showed the hole locations. If someone wants to post that pic for you I can send it to their phone number. They just need to pm me a phone number..bobw

MVA has them.
https://montanavintagearms.com/product/ ... -palmrest/

CPA also sells the base, staff, and a Schoyen style knob as separate pieces.

https://www.cparifles.com/collections/parts/Palm-rest

I was wondering if the Schuetzens made by Shiloh ever were made with a palm rest.

To answer your question without getting too deep in the weeds with details, in 1983-4 (as I recall) myself and several others had the loan of Shiloh ’74 rifles with double prong butt plates, DST, standard weight half octagon 28’ barrels chambered for .40-50 Sharps bottle neck. Sights were globe front with pinhead and windage adjustable tang sight.
C. Sharps and Shiloh (the two companies worked in unison in those days) had the intent to form a team to compete at the Coors Schuetzenfests to promote their products. Bottom line was the ’74 rifles were not really competitive with the Ballard, Stevens 44 1/2, Win HiWall and the up-and-coming Miller rifles in the Schuetzen game. If you wanted to stand in the winner’s circle at the end of the day, the ’74 was a handicap, not an edge.
To the best of my recollection, none of the initial batch of ’74 Schuetzen rifles had palm rests.
The story did have a happy ending though, the BPCR silhouette game was developing and as the old saying goes “the rest is history”.