Book Review: Sharps Firearms

(Wild West) “You could not hit a man at 300 yards if your gun was resting on Gibraltar,” Rooster Cogburn tells Texas Ranger LaBoeuf in the 2010 remake of True Grit. “The Sharps carbine is an instrument of uncanny power and precision,” LaBoeuf insists. “I have no doubt that the gun is sound,” Cogburn shoots back.
All jesting aside, a sharpshooter with a Sharps carbine could and did hit targets at 300 yards and beyond, as it was powerful and precise—in the right hands. The uncanny rifle is the subject of this truly epic book. Continued