.25-45 Sharps by Sharps Rifle Co., One Cartridge , not a box

Description

Please Note: in the above picture on the right side for size comparison, Left: 25-45 Sharps, Middle: 223/5.6 NATO, Right: 300 Blackout.

One Cartridge, Not a Box: 25-45 Sharps by Sharps Rifle Company. New production, 2014, using new brass cases with “FC .25-45 SHARPS” Head/Stamp from a Special Run by Federal Cartridge Company for Sharps Rifle Company only. Loaded with a 87 grain “Speer Hot-Cor” JSP ( Jacketed Soft Point) projectile.

For more Sharps Cartridges please see below in related items

History of 25-45 Sharps or 25 caliber x 45mm cartridge:
Introduced by the Sharps Rifle Company in 2014 as the 25-45mm Sharps and was designed by increasing the case mouth of a .223 Remington (5.56x45mm NATO) to accept .257″ or 25 caliber projectiles: .25 caliber x45mm Sharps equals 6.35mm x 45mm in metric terms.
This is another AR-15 ready cartridge, like the 300 Blackout, you can use the same ammunition clips of the AR-15’s 223 Remington (5.56 NATO) for the 25-45 Sharps, just change the upper AR unit. The Ballistics, are about the same as a 250 Savage.
History of the other Sharps cartridges:
The Sharps Company introduced the .45 caliber Sharps in 1876, with the first of many lengths being the 2 &7/8″ case length, to 1878 in 45-120 & 45-125 loadings in 3&1/4″ case length.
Sharps closed in 1881
The term 45-110 is 45 Caliber and 110 grains of black powder, other calibers were 45-90 @ 2&3/4″ case length, 45-100 @ 2&2/5″ case length and 2&3/5″ length with 100 grain of black powder, 45-120 in 3&1/4″ case length with 120 grain of black powder and lastly 45-125 in 3&1/4″ case length with 125 grain of black powder.
With the 1990 MGM release of “Quigley Down Under” movie with Tom Selleck, the .45-110’s popularity was reborn and a few rifle and ammunition producers starting manufacturing the calibers again, however, to my limited knowledge, the 45 Sharps calibers are not being produced as loaded as loaded ammunition with the correct headstamp at the the time on this writing, 07/06/2024. There maybe some companies making them from other caliber cases, case formed to the 45 Sharps caliber.