Adult Single Shot Fans?

[PapaG]

Ithaca? I know that Savage made a model 24 (24H iirc) in that configuration. Never heard about an Ithaca.

Ithaca didn’t.

 

[plainsdrifter]

Ithaca? I know that Savage made a model 24 (24H iirc) in that configuration. Never heard about an Ithaca.

125 years old gun company sonny. Been around a long time. Prolly most famous is the DeerSlayer

https://ithacagun.com/

 

[Milkmaster]

My favorite from my collection is the 20ga/22WMR. There isn't much you couldn't handle in the woods taking that with you.

 

[Milkmaster]

I enjoy this Henry 410. It has a 3" chamber and screw in chokes.

 

[Cvans]

I enjoy this Henry 410. It has a 3" chamber and screw in chokes.

Beautiful gun.

 

[USMColdCorps]

I love my very first gun, H&R 20 gauge, still have the receipt for $42. It goes out grouse hunting more often than my other 20 gauge. I am also very proud to say I manage a reload and hit on a true pair shooting some 5-stand with it. A great single-shot that my brother and I have used forever. Big fan!

Me too! My first firearm. As a family and as the Grandpa, I’m often supplying the everything when we go bust clays. My 11 year old has taken a shine to the 870 Youth and that leaves me with the H&R 20. I smile as I still do #3 “pickup” and rarely one gets past me. Singles are just to quick to wield and most people miss that aspect—or they wield them too easily and then don’t like them. However, I got 48 years with this gem, so we’re definitely in sync!

 

[Pete D.]

125 years old gun company sonny. Been around a long time. Prolly most famous is the DeerSlayer

https://ithacagun.com/

Drifter:: I know about Ithaca. The model 37 is my favorite pump gun. In my earlier post, I was referring to the references to the Savage model 24 combo gun.

 

[Barbaroja]

I like my singles! got a few of them but I really like this Nef 20ga

 

[entropy]

Yes I am a fan of single shot shotguns. I plan on adding a BT-99 and a Perazzi TM-1 to these two.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

In 12 ga single shots I have
a 12ga 2 3/4" Springfield 94 30" bbl full choke with Tennite stock
a 12ga 3" New England Firearms SB1.28" bb full choke and
a .30-30/12ga 3" Savage 24.24" bbl, screw-in choke tubes IC for slug and Full.
The family property available to me for hunting is pretty grown up.
You fire at game and miss, the game disappears into the undergrowth.
I don't see a single shot as a limit.
I do remember in my childhood my Dad going hunting with a single barrel 12ga and returning home with a game bag full of squirrels. Oh, squirrel dumplings!
The most use I have gotten the past three decades has been turkey shoots at paper.

 

[Ranger99]

These are all H&R/NEF kills
The cheapest was $50.00 at a pawn
shop, and the most expensive was
getting close to $300.00 with tax and
shipping etc.

It's not hard to score with an
inexpensive firearm. It can be as
hard or as easy as you make it.
Yeah, you have to put in the range
time and gain familiarity with it,
just like any other firearm

 

[Ranger99]

. . .I don't see a single shot as a limit.

They're not
It's all as hard as you make it

 

[PapaG]

I like single shots enough that I have a variety, for a variety of uses. Wish I was twenty years younger and still retired so I could shoot more. Trap, BT99 from 1974. Fun, Savage 12, H&R 410. Two Contender Carbine and 22, 223, 30-30 barrels. Henry 357. And yesterday...added a CVA 44 mag Hunter which has the best trigger of them all.
There are a few family antiques in the back row that never get shot like a Remington rolling block 22, a Stevens #26, and my great uncle's Shattuck 10 ga. And the muzzle loaders.
Never felt undergunned for target or hunting but would not want to investigate bumps in the night with anything less than my 870 riot or my Max 9.

 

[mope540]

I have my Grandma's 1915 Iver Johnson .410

Best squirrel gun ever, until I got my Baikal SxS .410. I carry 1 and grandson carries the other. We swap guns, regularly.

Very nice family heirloom to have!
I got this Iver Johnson .410 just 2 days ago. Likely made 1935-39, and chambered for 3" shells. Probably would not have bought it if i had not already 'hoarded' 3" shells.

 

[Capybara]

My first gun I ever bought on my 18th birthday. A Kmart (I think it's either Imbel or FIE?) .20 ga shotgun for $59
Many, many years later, I came across it's big brother in 12ga at a local gun show for $50 in great condition.

I used to shoot a rabbit now and then with the 20 ga. and my kids learned how to hit clays with them. I still keep them around for friends to learn how to bust clays with. They are both great guns, not
as nicely finished as the H&Rs but neither has broke or misfired after decades of use and both are fairly accurate.

Kmart 20 ga.


Kmart 12 ga.

 

[MedWheeler]

My first gun I ever bought on my 18th birthday. A Kmart (I think it's either Imbel or FIE?) .20 ga shotgun for $59

Mine was a FIE for sure, purchased from a Woolworth's store in a mall. I think it was around $79 there, in 1986.

 

[21H40]

I own a HR that has a 6ft barrel I use in spotshoot competitions I like very much, it keep my freezer full.

Wait.. 72" barrel? Was that a typo?
I thought 36" was pretty long. Is it a super fancy custom special order something?
I mean it seems like it would be a hoot, but I've never seen anything like that before.

 

[chamokaneman]

I have five singles, three shotguns and two rifles. Love the simplicity/utilitarianism of them.

 

[AK Hunter]

Wait.. 72" barrel? Was that a typo?
I thought 36" was pretty long. Is it a super fancy custom special order something?
I mean it seems like it would be a hoot, but I've never seen anything like that before.

Yes it's a custom barrel made on a single shot HR shotgun. It's made to burn up all the powder while the wad is still in the barrel to keep the blast coming around the wad from blowing the pattern open. We shoot at targets 50 to 60 yards away & try to put one piece of shot dead center on an cut + mark on a piece of 1/2" plywood. The tighter you can keep the pattern the more shot that has a chance of hitting the + mark.
I have a few custom guns made on pump guns too.

This board got 2nd place, that's about $200 in meat.

 

[Gerd33]

Worse exists. A friend of mine bought an H&R 10ga for Turkey.

I had one of those for a time and there are 3.5" slugs available for them. My LGS even had some in stock a few months ago (as well as some 10ga buckshot loads).
For myself I sold the 10 and now have a more sensible 20ga single shot.

 

[Fyrstyk]

Here is my 20 gauge shotgun. A black powder gun. One shot is all you need or get with this gun.

 

[tws3b2]