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Video: 10 Big-Bore Handgun Clips that will Make Your Day

.50-90 Sharps


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Another golden oldie, the .50-caliber Sharps was introduced in 1872. The .50-90 was a latter iteration of the cartridge and came about from the demand for more potent game loads – primarily by buffalo hunters. When Western writers refer to the “Big 50” this is the round they’re talking about.

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Elwood Shelton is the Digital Editor for Gun Digest. He lives in Colorado and has provided coverage on a vast spectrum of topics for GD for more than a decade. Before that, he was an award-winning sports and outdoors reporter for a number of newspapers across the Rocky Mountains. His experience has consisted of covering the spread of chronic wasting disease into the Western Slope of Colorado to the state’s ranching for wildlife programs. His passion for shooting began at a young age, fostered on pheasant hunts with his father. Since then, he has become an accomplished handloader, long-range shooter and avid hunter—particularly mule deer and any low-down, dirty varmint that comes into his crosshairs. He is a regular contributor to Gun Digest Magazine and has contributed to various books on guns and shooting, most recently Lever-Actions: A Tribute to the All-American Rifle.

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