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My collection of Hepburn rifles just grew by one more yesterday when another arrived via the brown truck. A Hepburn in a rare .45 2 7/8" showed up on another site and I was lucky to see it first and grab it. The .45 2 7/8" is also referred to as the .45-110 Sharps, and was a powerful cartridge during the Buffalo hunting days. Not many Hepburns got chambered in this cartridge, so finding even one is pretty unusual.
The full octagon barrel is an very heavy profile at 30" length and the Hepburn weighs about 14 lbs. It came with a Lyman tang sight, but otherwise fairly standard configuration. Bore on this one is like new and should be a great shooter once I can dig up some brass!
dieNusse1 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 5:41 pm
my pics look fine. Very nice gun.
Thanks.
My pocket Canon Power Shot has little illuminated boxes that supposedly focus when I push the shutter button halfway down to tell me it's focused. But for whatever reason I can still mess it up.
Took my new Hepburn out to our gun club on Tuesday maintenance day to show a couple friends. There were over a dozen guys there in the morning for work day, and beyond my two friends not a single person knew what it was. Several asked if it was a Sharps, and one asked if it was a falling block; at least he got that much right. When I said it's a Remington Hepburn I got puzzled looks, and guys saying they'd never heard of a Hepburn. I guess I take for granted gun guys are more knowledgeable about these old guns?
Recently picked up this No 3 Hepburn. It is a .40-90. It left the factory as a shorter case and the caliber is overstamped. What is really neat is that it has BROWNING BROS OGDEN UT stamped on top barrel flat. Not sure if they were the retailers or did the conversion.
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They were most likely the retailers as they marked almost every gun sold from their shop this way. Not sure if they would have stamped their name on the barrel for simply rechambering it or not, but suspect they wouldn't.
I tend to agree. The Browning Brothers marked just
about every long gun they sold. I wonder if the re-
chambering to a longer cartridge was to increase the
rifle's reach. This would have been important to a buffalo
hunter during the period of mass reduction of the buffalo
herds.
Anything Browning Bros. marked will get a premium of some sort. I had a friend offer me an H&R .22 Special model pistol that was like new from the 1920's. I really wasn't interested until he told me it was purchased new at the Browning Bros shop in Ogden. I looked it over and no stamp on the gun, but really no place to stamp it easily. It was in a flap holster, and looking the holster over I looked at the backside and saw the Browning Bros. stamp in an oval on the back, so I bought it. She was in her 90's and said her husband bought it and the holster at a sale in the late 1920's when the Bros. were closing their shop.
Just received 158 pcs. of BACO brass stretched from .348 Win. from a private party. Of course in typical USPS fashion it took a tour of the whole country, and after almost 3 weeks finally made it here!
I removed the Lyman tang sight and discovered the base screws were one size to small, and finer thread, so had to chase the threads in the upper tang to allow the correct screws to mount up a MVA 108 Long-Range tang sight. Then after some heavy work with a brass punch I finally got the silver blade front sight to exit the barrel! Pretty sure it had never been moved in the last 140 years or so. Installed a spirit level globe front sight I had in my spares box.
Going to make up some various loads for the Hepburn, and see if I fond one it likes best at 100 yds. Then start stretching it's legs out farther and farther. Our range has a full sized buffalo silhouette at 1000 yds. I hope to ring once I get a good load.
