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Larry Flees - ljflees@hotmail.com
Charlie Hahn - etb9601@gmail.com
Moose Moulds - amoose@moosemoulds.com
Bill,
First, the two are guys well known in the N-SSA for expert Sharps repair and modifications. As you can guess, Charlie is THE GUY for paper tubes to allow you to make preloaded cartridges. Larry and Charlie offer similar but slightly different approaches to modifying the Sharps chamber to prevent gas leaks. Larry is also very good at maintaining all parts of the fire channel, including custom cleanout screws and nipple recesses to improve the path of the flash to the powder charge.
Also in the cc list is the email address for Moose Moulds, who have a pretty complete catalog of high quality bullet moulds for the Sharps. I could happily recommend the 544-480, which is what I use, along with Charlie's 1.3" tubes and around 40 grains of Goex 3fg powder.
I'd suggest you try shooting various bullets first with loose powder, and then once you are happy with the bullet, measure your chamber from the base of the bullet to the face of the breech block and order your tubes. Charlie recently advised me that the overall length of the loaded paper tube can be as much as 1/4" short of the breech block and still achieve reliable ignition, so keep that in mind.
Old is a state of mind. If you're doing what makes you happy, the years don't count quite as much. I'm sure any team would welcome you back in whatever capacity you can handle. If the eyes don't quite make the grade anymore, I'd suggest smoothbore. With big targets and shorter ranges, it's almost too easy.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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