.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:^[1]

• .40-50 Sharps Straight or 40-17⁄8-inch Sharps, introduced in 1879^[2]
• .40-50 Sharps Necked (or Bottlenecked) or 40-111⁄16-inch Sharps, introduced in 1869^[2]