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Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:36 pm
by TN Longhunter
Local shop calls me when they have something out of their normal expertise. Estate sale with modern guns, two cut Trapdoors, muzzleloaders missing locks and a different 63 Sharps. Photos tell most of the story. Breech block is missing, Schuetzen butt plate but the kicker is the Evens Repeating Arms barrel? Primer feeder is missing and has a cartridge hammer. Serial number is C33XXX.
Any info will be appreciated. How hard/where to find a breech block and lever, Value, worth getting to restore?
Don
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:41 am
by bobw
It's a conversion 63 percussion gun. It still has the thick lock plate with the primer feed mechanism ground off. Needs a lot of expensive parts lever, screws, linkage, lever spring and block?, breech block, extractor? Firing pin and other parts. As far as the barrel goes many gunsmiths back then would use whatever they could get their hands on if they thought it was serviceable. Price?
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:43 am
by mongo40
If the price was right I'd have to get it, it would be fun restoring this old rifle, If finding a block proved impossible I would think a good machinist could make one that fit. There is a couple of levers on GunBroker right now. I often see sharps parts for sale on there but haven't seen a block, doesn't mean they aren't out there.
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:51 am
by bobw
bobw wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:41 am
It's a conversion 63 percussion gun. It still has the thick lock plate with the primer feed mechanism ground off. Needs a lot of expensive parts lever, screws, linkage, lever spring and block?, breech block, extractor? Firing pin and other parts. As far as the barrel goes many gunsmiths back then would use whatever they could get their hands on if they thought it was serviceable. Price? I also think with the purchase price you would have more than a new shiloh in it by the time you had a serviceable "parts gun". bobw
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:51 am
by bobw
bobw wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:41 am
It's a conversion 63 percussion gun. It still has the thick lock plate with the primer feed mechanism ground off. Needs a lot of expensive parts lever, screws, linkage, lever spring and block?, breech block, extractor? Firing pin and other parts. As far as the barrel goes many gunsmiths back then would use whatever they could get their hands on if they thought it was serviceable. Price? I also think with the purchase price you would have more than a new shiloh in it by the time you had a serviceable "parts gun". bobw
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:40 am
by kenny sd
So much not right with the gun. hammer wrong, barrel not a Sharps, no markings,
no breach and T. guard at all.
It was a parts gun at some time that someone decided to 'play with'.
If you needs an action from a conversion, go for it, but if not. move along.
what would I pay. $200 max, and even then I would think about it.
Ken
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:31 pm
by bobw
$200 well kenny you don t have to worry about buying it for that amount but just the way it is your powder supply will last awhile. bobw
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:11 pm
by TN Longhunter
Thanks to those that posted and sent PMs about this. No, not interested in taking on a project that will sink a lot of time and money for not much value. I told they shop that it was basically a stripped receiver. Just trying to get some idea about price for them. With the muzzleloaders, this Sharps and a few other oddities, they would likely take a low ball to get rid of them.
Don
Re: Help with a LGS find.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:11 pm
by TN Longhunter
Thanks to those that posted and sent PMs about this. No, not interested in taking on a project that will sink a lot of time and money for not much value. I told they shop that it was basically a stripped receiver. Just trying to get some idea about price for them. With the muzzleloaders, this Sharps and a few other oddities, they would likely take a low ball to get rid of them.
Don