Bar and sling ring assembly on Shiloh Sharps 1863s

[Naphtali]

Cavalry carbines often are equipped with a bar and sling ring. Can this assembly be installed and/or removed from Shiloh cavalry carbines without issue? If it can, are action-lock plate parts needed that must be ordered from Shiloh?

Can this bar and sling ring assembly be retrofitted to, for example, 1863 infantry rifles without drilling holes? Again, are action-lock plate parts needed that must be ordered from Shiloh?

[Blair]

Simple answer is... NO!
Sling bar and ring is something found on the Carbines. And not found on the Rifles and visa versa.
Can butt stocks be changes out? Yes! but this will not help the frame/stock fit for the sling bar between to two types of arms.

[Naphtali]

So not only is the butt stock, with its special inletting different, the frame of the carbine equipped with sling-bar assembly is different from infantry rifles?

[Richard Hill]

The Sharps 1863 carbine should be equipped with a sling bar and ring. The back end of the bar is held by an extension of the rear lock screw washer and the front is held in a hole drilled in the frame and secured by a screw hidden under the lock plate. The bar can be added, but it will require a bit of stock work and a hole drilled in the frame. To remove an existing bar a new lock screw washer will need to be added. The Sharps rifles had sling swivels.

New Shiloh Sharps carbines are produced WITHOUT the sling bar, but this can be added as an optional extra. Also missing in new production is the sliding loading lever catch.