single shots

GoodOlBoy · #1 02-27-2006, 05:33 PM

I know I keep asking but am I the only person out there still perfectly happy with my Single Shot H&R with the IM choke? Sheesh.

GoodOlBoy

rem 700 · #2 02-27-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by GoodOlBoy
am I the only person out there still perfectly happy with my Single Shot H&R with the IM choke?

GoodOlBoy

Probably

BILLY D. · #3 02-27-2006, 06:55 PM

GOB

i hate to be the bearer of bad news.....but back in the last millennia the belt fed shotgun and rifle were invented. only the upper crust and those in the "know" use them.

we less cival types are relegated to single shots and the ever common pumps and told it is impossible to harvest game and are constantly reminded of our inferiority in the field.

strange; i have deer and antelope, and a few pheasants and some grouse and partridge in my freezer. the planets must have been lined in precise order when this game was taken. how else can you explain that phenomenon?

as long as i'm alive there will be two of us shooting single shots and still harvesting game.

tjwatty · #4 02-27-2006, 07:46 PM

Does my Hawken 50cal. count?

fabsroman · #5 02-27-2006, 07:50 PM

Most of my hunting as a child was done with single shots. Killed my first dove with a single shot .410 with a hammer on it. Used a 20 ga. single shot to pheasant hunt with, but never killed anything with it. I didn't really start killing much of anything until I graduated to my dad's A-5 and I killed two pheasants in that day. The next year, I got to shoot his o/u and that was the first year I ever killed more than a single dove in a day.

Truthfully, I like shooting doubles and triples on doves, and I also hate having wounded birds get away. Believe it or not, I'm not perfect, and occassionally I wound a bird. Luckily though, I take them close enough that I can get a second and third shot on the same bird if I have to.

No offense to you single shot guys, but the rest of us less than perfect guys need the additional ammo. LOL

I have been thinking about getting a single shot rifle (e.g., T/C or Ruger No. 1), but I just cannot justify spending money on one of them when I also want an AR-15, AR-10 and a Beretta PX4. Maybe, eventually, I will own a single shot rifle, but I doubt I will ever spend money on a single shot shotgun.

Dom · #6 02-28-2006, 01:21 AM

Good ol Boy -- well, uhhh, yup, you're in the few I'd say, along with Billy D.

Although I grew up using a single 20ga w/hammer. In fact still got it, somewhere stuffed in a closet as a last resort.

But, I have to say for a youngster starting out, learning proper gun handling, safety, etc. it is a first choice. I'll never forget the first Pat I accidently hit with that 20ga as it burst out from under a foot of snow one morning. Lucky yes, but it did the job. And it put a few more on the table in the coming years.

I'll stick with double o/u's, Waidmannsheil, Dom.

gd357 · #7 02-28-2006, 05:24 AM

Well, lets see. I've taken my first rabbit, squirrel, groundhog, quail, chukar, and probably a few more that I can't think of right now with single shots. Probably the most useful guns I've had around were either single shots or double guns. Hard to argue with that.

gd

popplecop · #8 02-28-2006, 08:25 AM

Godd Ol Boy, even tho most of my shotguns have 2 barrels, not all. Both my turkey guns are built on NEFs, one is a 10 ga. with a peep sight (rainy day gun or snowy day) the other is a 12 ga. with tubes and a red dot scope. Both guns have killed numerous turkeys in my hands or others. I really like them, the 12 also has a rifled choke tube if I want to shoot slugs. Have a Berreta single shot 410 that gets shot mostly at clay birds, does work on squirrels too. No you are not alone in this field.

GoodOlBoy · #9 02-28-2006, 09:57 AM

See thats the kind of pot stiring I like to see. Don't get me wrong I have a pump 12 guage, and a broke model 11 16 guage and I love to shoot them both. But as I get older I find myself drifting back to the basics. Last year and year before last together I took more than sixty squirrels, a nice little buck, two house cats (As they were feeding on hatchlings in my chicken pens), an armadillo, and a possum with that little single shot 20 of mine.

More modern style guns are good, and they work. For me though I think I have gone back to my old 20 to stay. Besides when I used the pump, or the semi I noticed on any given day of squirrel hunting I went through a whole box of shells and sometimes more and didn't come back with one more durned squirrel than I did on days I used my single shot. Last year I took thrity two squirrels and I still have shells left in the second box. I just tend to take more time with my single, and I don't seem to get that need to shoot now jitter that I get with a pump or semi.

Anyway I am far from perfect, I fudge my share of shots out in the field just like anybody, but as for me I fudge less of them using my single than I do anything else.

BTW I am with ya Billy D. So long as I am around there will be at least two of us as well.

TJ Yes yer hawken .50 counts, even if it ain't a shotgun. Blackpowder shooters got me beat for going back to basics I can tell you that fer sure and fer certain.

Note: I have also gotten one of my brothers into single shot hunting. I think he will probably wind up an addict just like me.

GoodOlBoy

rem 700 · #10 02-28-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally posted by BILLY D.
GOB

in the last millennia the belt fed shotgun and rifle were invented. only the upper crust and those in the "know" use them.

indyhntr · #11 03-02-2006, 04:42 PM

Of the last 5 guns that I've bought the one that I looked for the longest was a little Savage 220 hammerless single shot .410. I spent over 3 years searching every gun site on the net looking for one

I can't see that gun going anywhere except to the woods for a long time.

deadkelly · #12 05-10-2006, 08:41 AM

i love me singles,trouble is i keep breaking them with 3 in magnums .baikals can take it but there action levers on the back of the trigger gaurd and realy belts ya fingers .
i've had big lumps after only 10 shots.why 3in cause shooting piggys at 5-10 meters on ya hands and knees in thick scrub its like 2 barrels at once,bb's & no2's flatten em buck shot iam not happy with thats in 2 3/4 in so i went to 3 in mags thats the ticket.

MN Tonester · #13 05-14-2006, 07:08 PM

Among the guns I learned to hunt with as I as growing up was an H&R Topper .410. My brothers and I all took game with that gun (grouse and rabbits). My dad still has the gun and has been using it a lot more over the last couple of years. So there are at least three of you who hunt with a single shot (at least on occasion).

bulletpusher · #14 05-17-2006, 08:46 AM

GoodOlBoy,

My son, yes I still like to shoot my H&R single barrel 20ga. I've only been shooting it about 42 years. I can still take'em (live and clay) with that shotgun.

I like it so much, that I'm thinking about getting me a new o/u or SxS in 20ga just to double my chances, and take twice times as much.

Nothing wrong with a single or double. You new fangled guys are alright too. With the pumpers and auto shukers, you guys can actually do anything with them things that I can with my single barrel 20ga. That is ifen you fellers try real hard. He He He

Bulletpusher
"BBRSSC #1"

8X56MS · #15 05-31-2006, 03:00 PM

My first shotty (at age 7), was a Stevens 20 Ga single barrel with modified choke. I still have it. With that shotgun, I took my first deer (using a foster slug), a ton of squirrels, lots of ducks, rabbits, and a variety of birds (on the wing, of course!)
It is far from my only shotgun now, but when I go squirrel hunting in the early part of the season, I usually grab my old friend on the way out the door.