Single-shot bolt actions?

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Okay, time for a strange question. I'm looking for a rifle in .308 or larger OR a shotgun in 12 ga or 10 ga that is single shot. Also, it needs to be a bolt action, and still be single shot.... and now for the impossible part; less than $1000 for either. Ideas?
 
As for Shot guns, I know you can find older bolt action guns from Mossberg and Stevens but I don't think you'll find a single shot bolt SG.
Mind if I ask why a single shot?
 
Should be some of the old bolt shotguns around as mentioned.

Of course there are the Ruger #1's and Thompsons, not a bold gun but a single shot.

Then the Remington 40X. Expensive, but you may be able to find a used one for the $1k price. They make a version in single shot and it's a bolt gun all the way.
 
Enfield L39A1. .308 single shot heavy match grade barrelled bolt action. Should be sub-$1k, IF you can find one! If you do fine one and don't want to buy it, let me know! I might have to scrounge the $$ and get it.

-Vic303
 
Sounds like what you need is a Mossberg SSi-ONE-----interchangeable rifle and shotgun barrels-----no its not a bolt action.

But the price is VERY cheap at Galyan's right now.
 
The Cooper Arms Model 22 is a single shot and available in .308. The Varminter and Classic list for $1250-$1295, but should be available for just less than a grand to $1100+something from someone like Whittaker Guns.

I just bought a .22LR Custom Classic from Whittaker after talking to the local Cooper dealer and calling all over the country looking for one. It would have taken 7 to 9 months if I'd ordered one from the factory and I didn't want to wait that long because it was a gift for my 82-y-old dad. He liked it. A lot. :)

www.cooperfirearms.com/classic.html

www.whittakerguns.com

John
 
Single shot because that's what I desire, bolt action because that's what I desire. I really think I'll have to get something custom-made, but where/who would do that??
 
Well, there may be a solution here...

The Springfield 1903A3 and earlier actions have magazine cutoffs on them that allowed them to be used as single shots.

Maybe get yourself one of those actions and simply use it with the cutoff turned "on"?

If that's not to your liking, I don't think it would be very difficult for a competent gunsmith to take a Mauser, or any other, action and remove the magazine and simply put in a blind bottom.

Remington's bolt action .22 line from the 1940s to the 1980s used identical receivers with an open bottom.

The single shots, however, had a blind bottom pinned in place. If removed, adapters could be fitted to the same receiver that would allow feeding from a box magazine or from a tubular magazine.

Very simple, very elegant.
 
So a good gunsmith would be able to do this to, say, a MN 91/30, making a single shot??
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been interested in doing this. On the face of it, the notion seems absurd. I once had a badly abused Argentine '91 Mauser. The external magazine was badly damaged, so my thought was to remove it and replace it with a wooden plug, making the rifle single shot. Experiments revealed that the rifle looked wild without the magazine sticking out--the longest and leanest lines on a rifle I've ever seen. Very light in the hand, and easier to manipulate without the magazine. It looked like a long walking stick. I liked it. But in the end I didn't have time and I ended up breaking the rifle down for parts. It's now in a very well greased bag in a metal box somewhere under about ten feet of snow.
 
Alright, it looks like I'm going to take one of my 91/30s and have this done, and if I like it maybe on one of my 98ks as well. Thanks for all the answers, now I can have a rifle that's me.... I never liked magazines anyway!

EDIT: I looked at the followers, and that's kind of what I want, only I want to do away with any protruding magazine, so it may work nicely on a MN 91/30.. also, what kind of bullet do you think they have sitting there loaded into a nickel plated case? I like how that looks...
 
My HP silhouette rifle is a single shot. I put a Rem 700 Varmint barreled action into an HS Precision Cast Off Spoden stock with an aluminum feed tray super glued to the receiver where the mag was. Works perfectly and it cost about $800, not including the scope and trigger.

Drue
 
Would this be a legal rifle??

Would this be legal??
Get a Remington XP 100 bolt action pistol chambered in whatever caliber you wish. They are around, and can be chambered in just about anything. Put a rifle barrel on it and restock it as a rifle. Should be an inexpensive way to make one if it will pass legal muster.
I know it is illegal to got the other way, and illegal to put a stock on a pistol, but would a rifle barrel get around that?
 
EDIT: I looked at the followers, and that's kind of what I want, only I want to do away with any protruding magazine, so it may work nicely on a MN 91/30.. also, what kind of bullet do you think they have sitting there loaded into a nickel plated case? I like how that looks...
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You can pop out the magazine from a 91/30 in about a second, of course. I'd suggest just plugging the hole with a wood piece fashioned to fit it, leaving it indented along the top to allow the cartridge to pass smoothly. The plunger extractor on a 91/30 should work fine for single shots, whereas you might have a problem with older Mausers that prefer to feed off the top of the magazine and have the rim ride up behind the extractor.
 
That may work, too, with just a grooved hardwood plug... on the 98k, I think I'm just going to order the machined metal piece. Hopfully that'll work as I'm hoping.
 
About 5-6 years ago Kimber built a few single shots built on a modified mauser action. I saw one in .220 Swift in CA, then I think they went broke, prior to reorganizing and getting into 1911's.

Third Rail, I assume you want a single shot bolt action for action rigidity? good thought:)

The (old) XP100action could likely be converted to a .308 single shot. Newer XP's are repeaters, and wickedly accurate ones, too.

Wichita Arm's silhouette pistols could take the .308 in a single shot bolt. If you find one well used, you should be able to get one for well under a thousand. I remmeber seeing one for $600-700 a couple years ago.

That's what comes to mind.
 
The problem with making a Mauser into a single shot, is that they are controlled feed. The rim has to slide under the extractor claw. You would have to rig the magazine to hold only one round. The Enfield was designed to load as a single shot, and some were made up with a wooden block in the magazine well and issued to native troops around the Empire, especially India. For a cheap and easy single shot .308, just get an Ishapore 2A1 and have the mag well blocked. Or, if you put a sporter stock on it, just don't bother to inlet the mag well at all.
 
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