Gentlemen,

Some of have been asking me to add a seperate forum for single shot rifles, so here it is.

Single Shots !!! I love them. Martini's, Ruger No.1's, Sharps & rolling blocks. My shotgun is even a 12ga Greener GP Martini takedown.

I can even remember winning a rapid fire match in our Big Game rifle club with my Ruger#1 in 458 Lott - 9 shots in 30 secs.

This is an interesting match for all you big game shooters. 50m Rapid on an NRA rifle target. Your score is the scoring ring count multiplied by the first 2 numbers of your calibre.

Yep, good topic. I like the classic Sharps 1874, Winchester High Walls, Rolling Blocks, Farquharsons (sp?) but my favorite single is the Ruger #1. I'm currently working on a custom #1 in 458Lott with a curly maple stock. I'd most like to have a Hagn or Hartmann & Weiss but they're pretty pricey.

Well my deer rifle is my T/C Encore 26", .270win. My Muzzle loader is my T/C Encore 209x50 barrel. My Shotgun is my T/C Encore, 26" 20ga 3". So I guess I will fit in here on this forum!
My next project is a 24" heavy barrel in .338WM for my T/C Encore! I am going to name that barrel "THOR" LOL

Was just thinkin' the other day that it's too bad there isn't a single shot rifle forum here, and lo and behold! Been shooting singles all my life. My Dad was a big single shot nut, and was brought up that way. Currently shoot a Ruger that I ordered way back in '67 when they were first announced(6mm Rem), a NEF Handi with 45/70 and 22 Hornet barrels, an old H&R Topper 12 guage that's my screwin' around in the woods gun and a Savage 24V(double single) in 20/22 Hornet. Taken a lot of game with all of them. Fact is I've never shot a game animal with a repeating thingee mechanism(except rabbits/birds with my Bernadelli double), an' don't expect I ever will. Won't even talk about the one's my Dad had that either he or I traded/sold. Brings tears to my eyes.

Woo-hoo! Thanks Saeed!

It must be in my genes or sumpthin', this single-shot stuff ...

Redial
aka Mark Riedl

Very gracious of you Saeed, Thank you!!!

cool. now i have a place to lament about the rolling block we had until my father traded it...i've always wanted one in 45/120 and one in 50/110...then, of course, gotta get one in 43 Egyptian or Spanish to experiment with just for the sake of being different and -- well great, now i'm all rev'ed up...

oh well...

[ 08-03-2002, 06:54: Message edited by: Curtis_Lemay ]

Finally;a place for those of us who Love the Single Bangers.My pet is an early issue #1 in .243Win.Looking for one in 6mm BR.Thanks Saaed for this forum.

Those are all nice, but the BEST one-shooter has to be the now discontinued Browning B-78!!

A thing of sublime beauty, form- and function- wise. It has to be the prettiest (??handsomest??) gun ever made, and every one I ever worked with would shoot like a house afire, without getting picky about the load. Just wish they would combine the B-78's graceful pistol-grip stock with the 28" or 30" barrel of the straight-stocked Model 1885 that replaced it.

[ 09-26-2002, 08:21: Message edited by: wingnut ]

I remember my great grandfather given me his gun and one bullet and told me to go shot a woodchuck that was outside his house about 75 yards away. I asked for more shells but he would not give them to me. I still remember him saying, (and it is been said many times), "You only need one shell. Make it count."

It is many years later and I went through a phase where I wanted another cartridge in easy reach in a magazine. No more.

Now I shoot woodchucks with a Ruger #1, and will be getting a Contender G2 pistol for deer next year.

It is amazing how smart those grandparents are sometime.

its about time we have a location for rifles. I have an encore in .223 and a vvcg in 300wsm. Love to shoot them both.

Single shots!
I've just got my #3 "K"Hornet up and running with 27" gain-twist barrel and Weaver V-16 scope.(Gophers beware!)
I used a trapdoor Springfield from 14 on for many years, and now count on a #3 in .38-55 and an NEF .357Max that has been highly modified to look like something out "The Price Of Horseflesh" by Charlie Russell.
Got away from the self-loaders and have a few lever guns and M-70's that I will keep, but the single shot is what I reach for....

Hold hard!
Dave 32-20

Saeed,
Thanks for the new forum. Here is some food for thought. When I last visited Wyoming, I stopped in at the place that is making the Ballard rifles. If I ever get ahead of the bills and business picks up, think I'm gonna get one of those puppies. They do a nice job out there and were very friendly too.

Take care,

Saaed. I and my thirteen Ruger # 1 rifles and Remington baby carbine rolling block thank you.
Paul B.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hey'
I do dumbs things,on occasion.One was to buy a Browing 1885 in 7mm.Then made it an STW.What a failure.I had Pac-nor build a 6mmBR barrel for it,same dimensions,as original barrel,so as not to have to work the stock.Lee Shaver,did the smithing and did a great trigger job.Best move I made in a long time.It's a one holer,and fun to shoot.By the way,the barrel is 28"s long.
1geejay
www.shooting-hunting.com

Saaed,
Thanks for the rifle forum, I kind of hated to post #1 questions on the SS pistol area but knew that the Single Shot disorder I suffer may be shared by others in that we have the long barrels for our T/C's and love the other makes. Just today at the Gun Show I was looking at a 357 MAX in a NEF w/brown laminate stock. It could be a must have.
I have also heard that NEF will fit additional barrels to their actions for less than $100.
Anyone on the forum have additional info on that?

Ken

Thanks for the link. Wow if only Contender's culd be fitted at the factory with a new barrel for only $75.00!!!

I did not see the rifle listed I was looking at Saturday at the gun show. 357 Max with laminated wood and a straight stock. Looked like a Ultra Varmit with heavy barrel but no Monte Carlo type stock. I did not see any 357 MAX listed in new or factory add on barel list. Should have bought that one! Maybe it will be odd enough no one else will buy it till next month!

Browning 78"s.