50-90 and felt recoil.

[Dennis Armistead]

I called Shiloh today and completed the order for the 50-90. I went with the 30in heavy octagonal barrel and a recoil reducer. I don’t dispute what some have sai,but I guess I have to find out for myself.

Congrats on the new gun, I'm sure you'll really enjoy it.

[Kurt]

With all the talk about the .50-2.5 I had to pull mine off the wall. Old Calamity don't get stuck in a dark safe. I got it around 04 and it passed over 20 K bullets through the bore at gong shoots and here local just for busting rocks and bowling pins. It does a fine job on bowling pins seldom get three hits before the wood inside the plastic jacket is empty This rifle does not take the back seat to any .45's in fact the 38's to .45's have taken the back seat to this rifle at the gong shoots. Yes this rifle will bite me if I get careless on where I pocket it, that's why I call it calamity because it's a plain Jain and kicks like a mule
It has ware marks on the barrel with the bluing wore off the edges and flats. The muzzle is shiny and as far back as the front sight from muzzle blast I think and the case is wore off the lever and shines like a nickel but it shoots. I would use it for the long range matches but I think the pit crew would give me hell because the spotter plugs would fall out when they raise the target. Just don't use it for the silhouette matches it will shoot the heads off the turkeys and legs off the rams and you will have to pick up the chickens on the other side of the berm..........Kurt

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[Shadow 4]

You all ways know when it goes off.
bobw

Kurt should go back to shooting his, everytime he squeezes the go button on his 40-65 he looks down the barrel to see if anything happened

You just think you could only have just this one last gun and your life will be complete but your wrong like the Lays potatoe chip no one can quit at just 1
bobw

I have 5 now, what for I don't know

[Kurt]

Shadow you would just send me down the road if I used the .50 when it knocked those diamonds off their hanger

[Shadow 4]

Shadow you would just send me down the road if I used the .50 when it knocked those diamonds off their hanger

I'd literally send you back to the gypsy house to get a different gun to shoot in our group

[J.B.]

Now now .. Kurt ..I could drag mine over again and we could shoot in the same group... Just not too sure how many others would be in the detail

J.B.

[Kurt]

[bobw]

You all ways know when it goes off.
bobw

Kurt should go back to shooting his, everytime he squeezes the go button on his 40-65 he looks down the barrel to see if anything happened

You just think you could only have just this one last gun and your life will be complete but your wrong like the Lays potatoe chip no one can quit at just 1
bobw

I have 5 now, what for I don't know

5 ? Wow ,I am only a single guy and have 6. You have 2 pretty daughters that distant cousins to ANNIE Oakley and they don't have atleast 1 in each hand? How are you going to help stimulate the economy by hoarding your money? bobw

[Shadow 4]

5 ? Wow ,I am only a single guy and have 6. You have 2 pretty daughters that distant cousins to ANNIE Oakley and they don't have atleast 1 in each hand? How are you going to help stimulate the economy by hoarding your money? bobw

Are you saying I should have more?

Dad's busy financing college out of his pocket, Savannah won't have $10,000 to pay for, she graduates this May 4th, the youngest is a sophomore in high school.

Besides, I'm the one with one in each hand, I swat away the boys

[bobw]

5/4 that's great! Now what you wanna do is ask Lucinda to send you a new 2019 catalog and go thru it circling the gun and options you want. Leave the catalog on her pillow and tell her that's what you want for putting her thru college, After all you put her thru to support you in the style you richly deserve right? Congrats to Savannah at any rate.bobw

[DeadEye]

Just a little more information that Brian has not mentioned. Last summer at the Canadian Shiloh Invitational Savannah won BIG TIME !!! First she was the first Women to ever win a match in Bethune when she won the Scope match on Friday. Then when all the other names were out of the hat for the Shiloh Rifle except for her and Len one of the local lads they had a shoot off. Savannah and Len stood shoulder to shoulder shooting Pigs OFF HAND. They went through the first bank, no hits. So they did it again, sudden death. 6, 7, 8, 9, nothing then on Pig #10 Savannah NAILED IT !! So sometime soon there will be SIX (6) rifles in Brian's safe although only five will be his. Way to do it Savannah. Luv yuh.

Paul

[Ken Heier]

50x2 1/2 (50-90) is a great hunting cartridge, with the proper twist for the 473 gr bullet. That's what it is, period.

[Shadow 4]

5/4 that's great! Now what you wanna do is ask Lucinda to send you a new 2019 catalog and go thru it circling the gun and options you want. Leave the catalog on her pillow and tell her that's what you want for putting her thru college, After all you put her thru to support you in the style you richly deserve right? Congrats to Savannah at any rate.bobw

Just a little more information that Brian has not mentioned. Last summer at the Canadian Shiloh Invitational Savannah won BIG TIME !!! First she was the first Women to ever win a match in Bethune when she won the Scope match on Friday. Then when all the other names were out of the hat for the Shiloh Rifle except for her and Len one of the local lads they had a shoot off. Savannah and Len stood shoulder to shoulder shooting Pigs OFF HAND. They went through the first bank, no hits. So they did it again, sudden death. 6, 7, 8, 9, nothing then on Pig #10 Savannah NAILED IT !! So sometime soon there will be SIX (6) rifles in Brian's safe although only five will be his. Way to do it Savannah. Luv yuh.

Paul

Shoot off's two years in a row at CSI Bethune, they get a little exciting, for dad
There was actually 3 names they tacked to the wall, Len's & two girls that spelled their last name Hickey, Jan wouldn't tell me who the two shooters were for the shoot off, I stood there thinking what the hell do I do now. I came up with a plan for another spotter for Savannah so I could help the youngest.

We always hope that our kids are listening to us as we go through life & they learn something from the past

In 2017 Savannah was having hell on chickens, practice, scope match, irons, main problem, pounding it into the rail, so dad calls for 3 min elevation change, of course she shoots over the next couple, grumbles & goes back down with her sights & proceeds to shoot just over & into the rail...........AGAIN

In the shoot off, she's all over the pigs, we've got a couple into the rail & two in a row through the window between his legs, "Are we going to come up with our sights"? Stern reply was "NO" grumble grumble

No rifle

2018, all over the pigs, after a few rounds, start pounding the rail, again, send two in a row through the "window", again, dad proclaims "For the love of", Savannah looks at the two pins & replies, "Are you flipping kidding me", my reply was "Do I look like I'm kidding". As she's doing her blow tubing & chamber swabbing I'd turned to see how Len & Annette were doing, as I turned back to Savannah, her rifle is loaded, she looks down at me over her rifle, & says "I came up 3 minutes dad", A smile might have come across my face as she shouldered her rifle & tapped that pig high in the flank or rear end & tipped him off the rail .................. I might have gotten some dirt in my eyes

Rifle is rumored to be out a couple of weeks

[clearcrickshooter]

Been a while since I have been on here,so I guess I had better chime in..... I am the Husky guy Kenny W. was mentioning in his earlier post I own a Shiloh 50 2/2 with 18 lb bbl. 34'', and 1-22 ROT. Total rifle weighs around 20 pounds. Had it since 2005 or so. It has won me two gold medals at Raton (in the heavy gun class) one Montana 1000 yd. match,one Mile Match,and other numerous close,and high finishes over the years. With a 700 eliptical bullet and 117 gr. of 1-F Swiss,it is a good handful,but not unmanagable. I shot the same bullet and 110 gr. with a bbl. that weighed 9 pounds,and muzzle whip was atrocious. So had Kirk put the big barrel on it after a few years. I no longer shoot it so much,as I feel I have used it very successfully over the years
and it has done everything and more I have wanted it to do. Now my degenerative disc cartilage,that was in my back before I had surgery,now is in both shoulders. Something I have had wear for over 40 years gradually,and father time eventually catches up. No,the .50 didn't cause this,but I want my shoulder to last a bit longer so I now use the 45's mostly. And,it costs a LOT of money per load with the lead and powder! But I wanted one,and I got one,so go ahead and get one,you will enjoy! I would actually like to have a Business rifle in the original twist and p.p. bullets for hunting. The 473's would not be bad at all. And p.p. doesn't quite have as bad of recoil as a grease groove,I feel. Thanks,Randy E. Clearcrickshooter

[clearcrickshooter]

Been a while since I have been on here,so I guess I had better chime in..... I am the Husky guy Kenny W. was mentioning in his earlier post I own a Shiloh 50 2/2 with 18 lb bbl. 34'', and 1-22 ROT. Total rifle weighs around 20 pounds. Had it since 2005 or so. It has won me two gold medals at Raton (in the heavy gun class) one Montana 1000 yd. match,one Mile Match,and other numerous close,and high finishes over the years. With a 700 eliptical bullet and 117 gr. of 1-F Swiss,it is a good handful,but not unmanagable. I shot the same bullet and 110 gr. with a bbl. that weighed 9 pounds,and muzzle whip was atrocious. So had Kirk put the big barrel on it after a few years. I no longer shoot it so much,as I feel I have used it very successfully over the years
and it has done everything and more I have wanted it to do. Now my degenerative disc cartilage,that was in my back before I had surgery,now is in both shoulders. Something I have had wear for over 40 years gradually,and father time eventually catches up. No,the .50 didn't cause this,but I want my shoulder to last a bit longer so I now use the 45's mostly. And,it costs a LOT of money per load with the lead and powder! But I wanted one,and I got one,so go ahead and get one,you will enjoy! I would actually like to have a Business rifle in the original twist and p.p. bullets for hunting. The 473's would not be bad at all. And p.p. doesn't quite have as bad of recoil as a grease groove,I feel. Thanks,Randy E. Clearcrickshooter