Single shot rifle?

[arakboss]

Look he has a single shot rifle.





Seriously though I love single shot firearms.

 

[CountryGent]

I still kind of kick myself for passing on a Ruger No 1 Tropical in 9.3x62㎜ Mauser.

 

[Nosferatu]

I still kind of kick myself for passing on a Ruger No 1 Tropical in 9.3x62㎜ Mauser.

Come on over...I'll kick ya too!

 

[JRuby]

Sure do like my Ruger #1 in 9.3x74r. Probably one of the last rifles I will ever let go.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Sure do like my Ruger #1 in 9.3x74r. Probably one of the last rifles I will ever let go.

Saw a decent drilling the other day that had 9.3x74R on the bottom barrel. Cant recall if the top barrels were 12 gauge or 16. I can never keep all the European rifle calibers straight.

 

[JRuby]

Saw a decent drilling the other day that had 9.3x74R on the bottom barrel. Cant recall if the top barrels were 12 gauge or 16. I can never keep all the European rifle calibers straight.

Where at? I probably couldn't afford it anyway.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Where at? I probably couldn't afford it anyway.

I'll see if I can find it. I look at so much random bubblegum I can't recall off the top of
My head.

 

[smkjrose]

Why? Unless BP season I don't see a reason.

 

[JRuby]

9.3x74r was never black powder the 9.3x72r probably was.

 

[Spitpatch]

Why? Unless BP season I don't see a reason.

Well, it's kinda like this:

If ya need a reason, yer prob'ly among the folk who pert near otta have extra ammunition fer jest 'bout ennything they do.

 

[whiskeybill]

When I started out hunting as a young lad, my Dad let me use an old Savage 34 in 30-30. It had a magazine. Dad gave me only one round each time we went out. He told me "I taught you how to shoot, make it count".

 

[orygun]

I still kind of kick myself for passing on a Ruger No 1 Tropical in 9.3x62㎜ Mauser.

Back when I had a hankerin, it's a good thing I never found a Ruger #1 in 45-70. I would have bought it and I don't know why. I had a Browning B78 in 45-70 at the time and it could do everything the Ruger could have. If I didn't love my CBOB so much, I'd miss that Browning. (traded)

When I started out hunting as a young lad, my Dad let me use an old Savage 34 in 30-30. It had a magazine. Dad gave me only one round each time we went out. He told me "I taught you how to shoot, make it count".

I got to load a full mag tube in the 1894, but it didn't matter. I never saw anything to shoot at when I was hunting with Dad. Not until I got older and we went elk hunting, anyway.

 

[jimihaze]

I went hunting quail hunting w/a single shot 20ga. I got 4 birds. Single shots load rather quickly when the hunt is on. Remember the old days when a box of '06 would last 20yrs? One deer a yr. in Oregon, nobody stock piled ammo in those day's. One shot was all anyone I ever knew needed.

 

[CrewSafeBC]

I hunted with a Ruger #1 in 375 for years, no disadvantage. First shot is the most important. You would be amazed how fast you get at reloading it

 

[JRuby]

I hunted with a Ruger #1 in 375 for years, no disadvantage. First shot is the most important. You would be amazed how fast you get at reloading it

I hope to find out next year as I picked a Ruger #1 in 375 H&H myself. Figured I would use the 250g Hornady CX bullets.

 

[Anti-Marxist]

I am quite fond of single shots and have rifles (.458 Lott and .338 Win Mag), shotguns (12 GA and .410) and a pistol (.44 Rem Mag).

 

[DeanMk]

I'd love to have either a Henry or a Ruger in either .358 Norma and/or .375 Ruger.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Just ordered one of these little bastards (featuring the big whopping tower of power known as .22 long rifle, oooh... ahhhh... behold the power!). Not sure why I bought it, other than it's less than $250 out the door and has a threaded barrel. That grip has got to go though.

 

[Outpost75]

My traveling hunting rig is a Beretta folding 12-bore shotgun with extra rifle barrel in .44 Magnum built for me by John Taylor in Lewiston. ID. The design intent was to exploit the folding shotgun and rifle combo that would pack easily in a suitcase for train or airline travel and didn't look like a gun case.

My friend in Italy explained to me that the folding Beretta is quite popular in Europe for a city gentleman to take the train out into the country to get in some sport shooting over the weekend. Rifle barrels are not available from Beretta, but John has done several of these for customers. My 12-gage barrel is a 26 inches long with modified choke, 2-3/4 inch chamber and chrome lined bore. It is also accurate with slugs in areas where a rifle isn't permitted.

The .44 Magnum barrel was made from a Green Mountain blank, and is also 26 inches long. Iron sights are an XS Ghost ring peep sight and New England Custom Gun banded ramp front. It has hard sight dope Loc-Tited for 150 yards with Winchester 240-grain factory softpoint ammo. The .44 gets a useful velocity boost, to about 1700 fps from the rifle barrel. Softpoint ammo expands well, has great penetration and stays together.



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[osprey]

I can count the # of big game animals I have shot that needed to be shot more than once on 1 hand. Never felt handicapped by a single shot whether a cartridge firearm or a ML. I pretty much wont hunt a modern WA general season anymore as weapons restrictions weed out many of the element I try to avoid.