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What caliber did Tom Selleck use in Quigly Down Under and is the thing really that accurate?

sks
 
It was a Sidehammer Sharps ....

in caliber .45 something or other... I think it was a .45-120. (120 grains of black powder as a propellant charge.)

Yes, if the shooter can hold and squeeze it properly.
 
Do a search for "Billy Dixon" and "Adobe Walls". A group of buffalo hunters had to deal with a group of hostile (IIRC) Kiowa or Cheyenne. From a refuge in an old adobe tumble-down, Dixon shot either the chief or the medicine man at over 1,200 yards. His rifle was similar to the Quigley gun. (There's argument whether he was shooting at one and hit the other, but that's sorta beside the point. One shot, one kill, end of problem.)

Art
 
Matthew used a Sharps Long Range Express w/military stock & patch box, pewter fore tip, and a long range tang sight w/windage adjustment chambered in .45-110 and shooting a paper patch bullet. The rifle(s) (three of them) used in the movie was may by Shiloh Sharps. After the movie they started offering the "Quigley" model to the public. Same gun as the one Matthew used but with a different length of pull (Tom Selleck is tall and the gun was made for him) and different initials on the lock (yours).

Guns of this type were used for long range shooting (competition (1K yds), bison hunting, sniping) and are quite accurate) hence the term "Sharpshooter".
 
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