Gun Show THIS weekend!

Don't forget about the Gun Show at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend!

The National Firearms Museum will be there in its usual booth — one of more than 1,000 booths scheduled to display firearms at the show.

Our sources tell us the Museum staff will be there showcasing the following guns:

• The Sharps Model 1874 .45-100 rifle which shipped to Conrad & Rath in Fort Griffin, TX in 1877. This store was one of the primary outfittingpoints for buffalo hunters in Texas.



• Sharps Model 1874 rifle in .50-90, the famed "Big Fifty" cartridge, widely used by buffalo hunters. Introduced in 1875, this cartridge could hold up to 110 grains of powder and was the most powerful cartridge chambered in a Sharps rifle during the buffalo hunting period.



• A-marked Sharps Model 1874 .45-70 rifle, made during the 1879 to 1882 period. 700 of these were built from leftover parts and sold at a discount as the Sharps Company began to decline.



• Sharps Model 1874 military rifle in .45-70. This rifle, complete with a diary from the owner, was used by a market hunter in Montana and theDakotas to supply meat to railroad crews.