![]() ![]() I'm sure OLG knows far more about this than I do. I believe the Montana guns never have a freebored chamber. a few guys in the BPCR competitions petitioned Wolfgang to change the chambers. How ever that design got mixed up in the rifles is of no consequence because that was early NY guns. When a paper patched bullet is fired in a freebore chamber the bullet obsturates filling the freebore and will strip the paper jacket from the bullet and now you have an ungreased, ungroved pure lead bullet mucking up the work and each subsequent round just makes it worse. That so called paper patch chamber was just the opposite. 001" under bore diameter and no freebore is needed. Paper patch bullets should be (under all but the most extreme circumstances) patched to. It was IIRC due to the popularity of Grease grove bullets and the need to seat them out farther to gain case capacity on the like of the 45-70 and possibly the 45-90 The biggest misnomer in Shiloh rifles was he so called Paper Patch Chamber. The biggest issue with the Shiloh is once you buy one you will soon realize that you "want" more. I have toured the company plant twice and am very impressed with the rifles and the staff at Shiloh. I do believe that the guns made now are among the best and there is a warranty for a "lifetime" to original owners. I have two that were made prior to the change in ownership, both are quality rifles and they shoot very well. I am by no means an expert of the Sharps but I do recall that many people will chose to buy a Shiloh with the B series. There is a lot of discussion that firearms made prior to the "B" series may have a chamber that was cut to use paper patch bullets. The current owners are the Bryant family and guns made under their ownership will begin with a B in the serial number. ![]() ![]() Most Shiloh owners I believe will say that the rifle has continued to improve with the move to Montana. ![]()
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