.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:


 * .40-50 Sharps Straight or 40-1$7/8$-inch Sharps, introduced in 1879
 * .40-50 Sharps Necked (or Bottlenecked) or 40-1$11/16$-inch Sharps, introduced in 1869