User's Guide

SHARPS – USER’S MANUAL
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Ordinary cleaning:
Cleaning of percussion and cartridge models is very similar. Follow the steps listed below:
 Place the hammer in half-cock position, so that the firing pin is not protruding out of the breech block and
you don’t risk to spoil it or the breechblock.
 Open the lever and place it in a position where the lever spring is not working
 Turn the lever pin clockwise and extract it from its seat.
 If lever pin is too hard to extract, remove the forend screws and unscrew the lever spring screw, in this way
it should be easier to remove the lever pin.
 Now the entire breech block group will be free to fall out of the receiver.
 Clean with a solvent the inside of the receiver, barrel and block.
 Slightly oil and reassemble.
 When you reassemble the parts, place the extractor into its seat in the block, place the rifle with muzzle up
and sleeve the block into the receiver.
 Move simultaneously block and extractor till you will see at the side of receiver the mounting holes aligned.
 Lock the parts with the lever pin.
 When shooting with black powder or Pyrodex the barrel should be cleaned every two shots to keep good
accuracy and easy loading.
 Often black powder residues are left at the beginning of the cartridge chamber; clean with a slightly wet
brush.
 Occasionally you can proceed with deeper cleaning, for example disassembling the firing pin, or lock and
trigger plate. Such steps are not so easy and you must pay great attention to avoid damaging the gun.
 In case you own a percussion rifle you have to clean also floating chamber seat. You can remove the block
first and then remove the floating chamber (in case the floating chamber is stuck into the barrel, you have to
use the proper extractor tool item 970.011).