{"id":13330,"date":"2016-05-09T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2016-05-09T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:29:27","slug":"shapes-on-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/shapes-on-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharps on Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve mentioned the .25-45 Sharps cartridge<\/a> here before. I’ve also mentioned the neat little XS Sight<\/a> enhanced\u00a0Mossberg MVP<\/a> I had rebarreled for it. I’ve been testing some new loads for this cartridge from the Sharps Rifle Company<\/a>. I’ve also been testing one of their new ARs chambered for the .25-45 Sharps. A full report on both will appear in an upcoming issue of NRA’s American Hunter magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the mean time you can chew on how well this cartridge performs out of my customized Mossberg MVP<\/a>. And, you can also see how the extremely affordable and portable the Steel Challenge Target from MGM<\/a> works.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned the .25-45 Sharps cartridge here before. I’ve also mentioned the neat little XS Sight enhanced\u00a0Mossberg MVP I had rebarreled for it. I’ve been testing some new loads for this cartridge from the Sharps Rifle Company. I’ve also been testing one of their new ARs chambered for the .25-45 Sharps. A full report on both will appear in an upcoming issue …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509,2522,2500],"tags":[481,2659,633,536,377],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-hunt","category-shooting","tag-25-45-sharps","tag-back-up-sights","tag-mgm-targets","tag-mossberg-mvp","tag-xs-sights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3t0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13174,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/mossbergs-mvp-the-perfect-project-rifle\/","url_meta":{"origin":13330,"position":0},"title":"Mossberg\u2019s MVP \u2013 The Perfect \u201cProject\u201d Rifle","author":"gunwriter","date":"April 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For a rifleman there are few things as appealing as a custom rifle. 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