The Sharps was truly a custom rifle, a labor-intensive dedication to perfection. While Winchester’s breech-loading repeaters were selling for as little as $10, a single-shot Sharps listed for $33.

Wanting to test that two-way utility from an AR-15, I obtained a complete upper in 25-45 Sharps, as well as 200 rounds of ammo from the Sharps Rifle Company (SRC) The cartridge lived up to the ...

Kirk Bryan eventually took the Shiloh Sharps Rifle business over from his father. The company now employs 23 people and turns out anywhere from 800 to 1,100 rifles a year, depending on how fancy ...

Christian Sharps left the enterprise in the 1850s and the company moved to Connecticut, but the Sharps Rifle Company carried on using his name to market rifles for the next several decades.