Theater Crafts Industry went so far as to say, "In Quigley Down Under, which we did in 1990, the Sharps rifle practically co-stars with Tom Selleck."This statement was echoed by gunwriters including John Taffin in Guns and Lionel Atwill in Field & Stream. In the 1990 western Quigley Down Under, Tom Selleck's title character uses a Sharps rifle. Reproductions of the Sharps rifle are currently made by different rifle companies and the rifle has become an icon of the Old West due to its use in a number of movies and books in the Western genre. By 1874 the rifle was available in a variety of calibers and had been adopted by the armies of a number of nations and was one of the few successful designs to transition to metallic cartridge use. They are renowned for long-range accuracy.
SHARPS MODEL 1874 CREEDMORE (Upwards of $12000) Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore single-shot rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848, and ceasing production in 1881.
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