Single shot rifles

[JFrame]

Have a single-shot rifle -- and pistol...It's a T/C Contender...

In "rifle" configuration, it's either the .22 LR shown or a .44 mag carbine. I got the Choate folding stock, but I think I'd rather have a more traditional stock from someone like Boyds now.

Nowadays, it spends most of its time as a 10" or 14" .22 pistol. It is my absolutely favorite firearm with which to plink.

 

[DM~]

I'm rather fond of my single shot "rifle"... My freezer rather likes it too! lol



DM

 

[Cee Zee]

Would you say a single shot rifle is inherently more accurate than a bolt action rifle, I am thinking break open single shot

I would say that a bolt action single shot has advantages over feeder rifles but a break action is probably likely to be less accurate actually. A break action has to have too many things line up perfectly when you close it up and that just doesn't happen because the carrier is going to have some play in it just because of the way it works. There's a lot of weight supported there and it has to lock into place perfectly to shoot well. So the truth as I've known it is that break action rifles are less accurate actually and the older they get the worse that will get because they develop more play in the pivot point.

Single shot bolt action rifles don't have any open space in the action for bullets to feed except for the same place they eject. So that gives them more strength and stiffness which means less movement of the parts. And that "can" mean better accuracy although it doesn't always work out that way.

But I do have 2 single shot rifles and both are very accurate. I have a Stevens 15-A .22 single shot which is one of the most accurate rimfire rifles I have. And I have a Savage 12 LRPV which is the most accurate rifle I own by a good bit. It's obviously stiffer than other rifles that have openings where the bullets feed. And it takes advantage of that stiffness.

That doesn't mean that some rifles with feeding actions aren't very accurate. It would be silly to say that. But generally as a rule it's "possible" to make a rifle more accurate by eliminating the hole in the action where bullets are loaded into that action. Instead of having open areas on the side of the action and on the bottom of the action there is only an open area on the side of the action. Still that stiffness has to be put together with all the other things a rifle needs to be accurate.

 

[LAH]

Single shots are fun tools.

 

[rhinoh]

My first firearm was a single shot 22, Ithaca 49. I still have it. It still shoots great.

Same here! First gun, My Dad gave it to me around 1965. Someday it will be my grandsons.

I have a Rossi .22/410 combo, have to switch barrels. Still- something intriguing abut shooting it.

 

[txcookie]

My tc encore is amazing. She has no issues keeping a one inch groups in 30.06 at a hundred and has done it as a ml enough times that I blame me for not getting the groups. I love the rifle and can wait to get my next barrel for it

 

[.375]

my favorite single-shot is my piston AR 15 with steel cased ammo

 

[aarondhgraham]

the only single shot rifles worth having are Ruger No. ones

Granted they are beautiful rifles,,,
And someday I will score a nice one for myself,,,
But by most accounts they are not known for tack-driving accuracy.

Aarond

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[wild willy]

Not buying a Browning low wall .260 when they were on clearance is one of the dumbest if not the dumbest gun dealing I've ever done.On closout they were cheap not anymore.That being said I like a fixed action single shot a lot better than a break open.I have a Encore and several H&Rs. One #1 someday hope to get a Browning or Winchester Low or High Wall.I have single shot adapters in of some my bolt varmint guns but to me a bolt action single shot isn't the same as a true single shot.

 

[DM~]

I've owned several Ruger #1's, none were super accurate, at least not compared to the bolt guns that I also owned.

#1's are nicely designed rifles, but nothing I ever kept, mostly because they are a TANK to carry as in TOO HEAVY and as I already said, just average in the accuracy department...

#3's were lighter, but still too heavy for smaller cartridges...

These days, they are waaaay over priced!

DM