50-2" Sharps

[bobw]

Gun dealer friend of mine bought a 50-2" by accident a few years ago, he thought it was a 63 conversion gun in 50-70 and the seller thought it was too. My friend mentioned he had got a conversion gun and would I like to see it? So I'm checking it out and first thing I note was no 3groove rifling and when I looked at the side plate it all smacked me in the face as it was sideplate that resembled a 74 not a ground off 63. He wanted $2500 and I didn't have it so I told him to hang on till I got my copy of Sellers for reference and sure as hell it was not a conversion but an original 69 carbine, further more when I stuck the chamber with a sized 50-2.5" a 1/2 stuck out wallah a 2" 50, dead ringer for the gun on page 208 of Seller's with the serial # in the right range. I told him he better crank the price to $7500 an see what happens . There were less than 500 of these made and how few in 50 2" is anyones guess. Don't really believe they would hold more than another 10 grs or less. He doubled well over the 2500 price and yeah when I buy something from him I usually get a better price than Joe A Public does. bobw