am i the only one who uses singleshot shotguns to hunt with??

[midland man]

I hunt with a H&R single shot regular. I have them in 410, 28, 20, and 10 gauges. My 12 gauge is a Stoeger Uplander SxS, and a Legacy Sports short barrelled O/U. 28 and 20 are my favorites, but I like the Legacy for rabbits, Bob Whites being non existent around here now. The 10 for ducks and turkey, but I have used the 20 a bit, especially for turkey. The 28 and 20 are the choices for those days my chiweenie ( Daschund/Chihuahua cross) is finding skwerlz for me. Also use those two for doves, although doves usually mean my 20 gauge pump. The 410/45 Colt H&R Survivor is my truck/tractor gun.

Huge fan of single shot rifles and shotguns here. My "standard" hunting battery consists of the H&R Handi Rifles in 45-70 and 30-30. The H&R Sidekick 50 caliber muzzleloader, and the Pardner 20 gauge shotgun. The H&R Sportster in 22 Magnum tales care of my rimfire needs.

A also am on the lookout for the Henry Single Shots, but I want them in rimmed cartridges. I'll take a rifle in 45-70, 30-30, and 22 Hornet, and the shotgun in 20 and 12 gauge please.

yep me too I want the 45-70 and a 30-30 and 45 colt plus the 12 gauge shotgun come on henry i'm ready!!

 

[Jason_W]

Growing up in Vermont my first shotgun was a braztech.410 break action. For reasons no one could explain, I’d miss partridge (ruffed grouse) with it and hit woodcock while my dad with his 870 12 gauge would hit grouse but miss woodcock.

For my 11th birthday I was given a Remington 870 in 20 gauge that wound up being my go bird gun for the next 26 years. With it, I hit partridge and missed woodcock. Go figure.

What I can say is that in all my years upland game hunting, I’ve never missed an animal on the first shot and hit it with the second. I’ve never fired a third shot on a bird.

Waterfowl and birds that jump en masse might be a different story, but for woods birds love me grouse, a repeater seems to just be extra weight.

Exposed hammer guns seem to be a little slower to shoot than those with safeties, but that’s probably a matter of practice.

 

[Blkhrt13]

1 Rossi combo 20/22
1 eastern arms sweet 16
1 savage 20 gauge
1 baikal 12 gauge
The first two have miles on them the others will catch some. I can’t really calculate the amount of game taken with that 16. I call it the meat stick. It’s put a lot on the table. Ducks, squirrels, rabbits a nutria or two never a deer yet but I tried. I don’t even own a pump set up for hunting.

 

[Armored farmer]

Someone should start a single shot shooters society thread.

 

[Blkhrt13]

Someone should start a single shot shooters society thread.

Yes

 

[John Joseph]

No.
I do like to put a good recoil pad on them though.

 

[Bushpilot]

While I don't normally "go hunting" with a single shot shotgun I do have an old Stevens 12 ga 107b that has turned into my official goto gun for killing pests around the house. It also goes with me for for walks around the back of my property cause it's light and handy... So, by default it has become one of my most often used guns...

 

[Ironhand54]

Well I have 5 single shot shotguns, all muzzleloading guns. All are fun but the 2 flintlocks are my favorites.
Nothing wrong with a single shot. My dad hunted for years with a Savage hammerless single. He had a 20 gauge barrel and a 30-30 barrel. Never needed anything more

IronHand

 

[MTNSTRYDER]

Like Jason W. I too grew up in Vermont.Woodcock are small and fast it seems like the only gun you can hit one is a 410 single.

 

[Grumulkin]

I have an Encore with a shotgun barrel. It's really short and handy for a shotgun.

 

[eastbank]

I shot this 15lbs 6" beard jake Friday with my encore 12ga, using Winchester longbeard 3" mag 1-3/4 oz #5 shot at 42 yards.

 

[eastbank]

filled my turkey tags yesterday morning with my tc encore 12ga with the same load, a little over 20 lbs with a 10" beard. a little closer shot at about 35 yards.

 

[Armored farmer]

I managed to get my 2018 Turkey thus morning before getting in the bean planter.

With my trusted NEF 12 ga 3 inch mag.
Had I known he would come in and stand between the decoys at 25yds I would have used my 2 3/4 inch shells.
This is one happy farmer.
#1 son called him in for me.

 

[Kaeto]

I've got a:

H&R 'Topper' 12 ga
H&R 'Champion' 12 ga
Bridgeport 'Black Prince' .410

 

[eastbank]

my friend shot this bird yesterday afternoon with my tc encore 12 ga, with one of my win long beard shells. shot at 27 yards.

 

[doubleh]

I used to hunt quail and hove with and old 12 ga. single barrel that I took in trade. The barrel had been cut to 24: and not straight either. I trued up the muzzle, made a front sight out of a piece of sheet metal and a BB and then installed a thick recoil pad. It was light and fast to get into action. I would stick three shell between the fingers of my left hand for fast reloads. I had a nice double barrel but I left it at home for several years until I received a good offer for the single shot and let it go. Harvested a bung of quail and dove with that thing.

I'm using a O/U now. I have never owned a pump or semi-auto shotgun.

 

[Kaeto]

I've got all three , Single Barrel, Pump, and Semi-Auto

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Got a 20 and looking at a 16 and 12

 

[Kaeto]

On Mon my dad showed me his latest shotgun. A .410 break-open 'Snake-Charmer'.

 

[MedWheeler]

pANZERSCHWEIN WRITES:

Whilst I've yet to hunt with one, I've got several and a couple of them cut down as "kitchen door guns" in a sense.

I bought an FIE 20g back around 1985 or so, and really enjoyed my rather poor skeet outings with it. Like you, I never hunted with it. Years later (and years ago), I, too, cut it down to about 19-inches on the barrel for pretty much that same purpose. I still have it leaning in a corner, with five rounds of #4 buck in the stock sleeve.

 

[adcoch1]

Just picked up an old Stevens single 12 gage with a modified choke last Saturday, should be good for little wood plots or river bottoms. Goes nicely with the little 20 gage nef single I already had.

 

[kBob]

Was just looking at a Stevens 94 at a local pawn shop. Looked amazingly like what Winchester did to the model 37 when they added the letter A to the number.

Had I not been returning from the auto mechanic who had lightened my wallet I would have bought it. I rather liked the fact that it has a "rear sight" notch cut in the top of the breech face that could be used when the gun was cocked ( why would one need to use sights when it was not cocked anyway?) the little front bead fit that notch nicely and I saw real potintual for slug use once one learned where to place the aligned sights at various ranges. Made me question my desire to trim the barrel back to 18 to 20 inches as well. Well that and the fact that the Stevens was about the lighted of the single shots and starting at 6 pounds and then cutting off a third of the barrel would make for a very light 12 guage launcher. It also had an ancient slip on butt recoil pad so I could not see the butt plate and the pawn broker was not going to let me pull it off and likely tear it in the process just to look. Nice looking gun. Was a bit concerned about the likely hood of that barrel latch biting me during recoil, any one experience that?

Don't cha just love old style shops with used guns in open floor racks?

-kBob

 

[BSA1]

While I don't normally "go hunting" with a single shot shotgun I do have an old Stevens 12 ga 107b that has turned into my official goto gun for killing pests around the house. It also goes with me for for walks around the back of my property cause it's light and handy... So, by default it has become one of my most often used guns...

Our H&R 12 ga. is also the most used firearm here at the ranch. My wife and daughters love it's light weight. It sits in the coat closet by the front door with a sleeve on the butt fill with shells.

This thread has got me motivated again to find another one so I can cut the stock and barrel shorter making it easier for my wife to use.

 

[Bushpilot]

^^^^^ Yep, same here... It sits in the closet by the back door with a sleeve on the buttstock full of shells... Mine also has a slip on nylon sling...

 

[kBob]

I am kind of "skitso" (SP) about H&Rs......I hate the fact that the fore stock is screwed on and can not be just snapped on and off.....and I love the fact that the forearm is screwed on so you can put a sling mount in the forearm without worrying about the forearm popping off while using the sling.

-kBob