Sharps, High Walls, and Trapdoors with Scopes

>>33713647
With the money you shell out for one, just get an ar.

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>>33713670
I would If I was looking for a practical modern rifle anon, but this money is reserved for the purchase of later 1800s single-shot rifle.

>>33713670
Don't respond to this bait OP.

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>>33713692
too late :(

Pic is the same model of P.Sharps I'm looking at. It definitely wont fit a 32" telescope, but there are shorter 18" ones that fit the bill.

>>33713647
I have several repro 1885's (2 highwalls and a low wall). I like them better than the Sharps and Trapdoor.

My first was the limited-run Winchester with the period-correct lack of safety and 30" half-round, half-octagonal barrel in .38-55. I bought it specifically for a silhouette game my gun club does called buffalo shoots (silhouettes at 100, 200, 300, and 500 yards from standing, kneeling, sitting w/ sticks, bench, and standing again respectively) because they mandate rimmed rounds and I already had several .38-55 rifles. It's amazingly accurate, which is pretty much what I expect from a Miroku-made gun. Even with my ridiculously heavy, slow, non-gas checked cast bullets it's a sub-MOA rifle. Which is unheard of for cast bullets.

My second was an Uberti in .44-40. I won it in a raffle, and it's fun and reasonably accurate while having period-correct aesthetics (IE no safety and color case hardened receiver), but it's literally not something I'd have paid money for due to not actually being useful for anything.

And my last one is the current-production low-wall Winchester 1885 in .22lr, bought specifically for the iron sight division of smallbore. A buddy had one and his routinely outshot Anschutz rifles, and it's almost as much fun even if I'm shooting like shit because everyone looks at me like I'd just rolled out of the stone age at matches.

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>>33713749
I'm glad you like them. I read that Uberti High-Walls aren't really competition-ready out of the box, because of the lack of a match barrel. I've reconsidered buying a Uberti and moving up to a Pedersoli when I have the money for one. Are Winchester 1885s similarly priced?

I'm staying with the 45-70 models for simplicity's sake, since I also want to learn to reload on 45-70 cartridges ($1 a pop at the cheapest is ridiculous and I may as well increase shooting volume for the price). If there are other more affordable, or reasonably affordable straight-walled cartridges I should consider, let me know.