Colonel William D PickettPickett was considered the most celebrated American hunter of that period. Fortunately he was also a great rifleman, and had been a celebrated long range shot even before going West. For all his hunting he used a .45 Sharps long-range rifle, with thecartridges being loaded with 90 grains of powder and a 450 or 520 grain bullet. He used Curtis and Harvey powder which was imported from England. With his Sharps rifle he shot literally hundreds of grizzlies, as well as a large number of wapiti, sheep, and deer, and a few buffalo.Pickett was considered the most celebrated American hunter of that period. Fortunately he was also a great rifleman, and had been a celebrated long range shot even before going West. For all his hunting he used a .45 Sharps long-range rifle, with the cartridges being loaded with 90 grains of powder and a 450 or 520 grain bullet. He used Curtis and Harvey powder which was imported from England. With his Sharps rifle he shot literally hundreds of grizzlies, as well as a large number of wapiti, sheep, and deer, and a few buffalo.
After serving in the Mexican and Civil War, fighting Comanches on the border, in 1876 a voice from the wilds was heard beckoning William Pickett to follow to the solitudes and grandeur of the plains and mountains of the Great West, where practically everything was in the state of nature, unchanged by the contaminating touch of civilization. Read More Read Less