.40-50 Sharps

The .40-50 Sharps, may reference two mutually incompatible black powder rifle cartridges, which were the smallest members in the Sharps family:^[1]

• .40-50 Sharps Straight or 40-17⁄8-inch Sharps, introduced in 1879^[2]
• .40-50 Sharps Necked (or Bottlenecked) or 40-111⁄16-inch Sharps, introduced in 1869^[2]

References

1. Outlet; Rh Value Publishing (12 December 1988). Guns of the World. Random House Value Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-517-22518-9.
2. W. Todd Woodard (1 December 2014). Cartridges of the World: A Complete and Illustrated Reference for Over 1500 Cartridges. F+W Media. pp. 586–. ISBN 978-1-4402-4274-8.