Single Shot Scatterguns

[Mr. Mosin]

Lord, this brings back memories. I gotta get out in the woods this fall and winter again.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Some one just posted another Ithaca model 66 - 20 gauge on a local forum about an hour ago for $100, some one already jumped on it. I would of bought it if I seen it before it was spoken for.
Nice buy right there, it has a darker stock then the one I am buying.

 

[Highland Lofts]

There are a couple of the 20 gauge Ithaca model 66 shotguns on Gunbroker.
On of the 20 gauges has a buck barrel with rifle sights starting bid is $695.
To expensive for my wallet.

There is a 12 gauge listed also.
These 12 gauges kick like an angry mule.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

There are a couple of the 20 gauge Ithaca model 66 shotguns on Gunbroker.
On of the 20 gauges has a buck barrel with rifle sights starting bid is $695.
To expensive for my wallet.
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There is a 12 gauge listed also.
These 12 gauges kick like an angry mule.

Most 12ga single shots kick like an angry mule… there’s a reason our ancestors Stateside used the equivalent of a 20ga smoothbore for their “one gun”.

 

[nofendertom]

I use a Pachmayr slip-on pad to help tame the angry mule kick.

 

[Highland Lofts]

For squirrel hunting with a 20 gauge i like high base #6 shot.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

That's my old Mode 37 Win. The red paint is just about gone from the Winschester script on the bottom of the receiver. This old gun was used alot but it's still good and tight. It does kick noticible more than my Win XTR 1500 gas operated. But it's certainly not un-managable. I've shot trap with it before a few times.

 

[10Glocks]

Nothing carries like an old break-open single shot. Having one of my H&R single shots with me is like hunting with and old friend.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

Nothin’ quite like a single shot scattergun

 

[tws3b2]

Well, it's not exactly a scatter gun with a 24 inch barrel. And, it's not 12 or 20 Guage. It is a 410. But, it is a single shot. Made sometime between 1933 and 1943.
So, Exactly what is a " Scatttergun"? I always thought a scattergun was a shotgun with something less than a 18 inch barrel. ??

 

[Mr. Mosin]

Well, it's not exactly a scatter gun with a 24 inch barrel. And, it's not 12 or 20 Guage. It is a 410. But, it is a single shot. Made sometime between 1933 and 1943. View attachment 1256487
So, Exactly what is a " Scatttergun"? I always thought a scattergun was a shotgun with something less than a 18 inch barrel. ??

Any shotgun. Shot “scatters”- ie “scatter-gun”

 

[tws3b2]

Any shotgun. Shot “scatters”- ie “scatter-gun”

So, If you fire a cartridge with more than one projectile from a rifle or handgun. Say, like snake shot. Then that rifle or handgun would become a "scatter gun?" How about a gatlinggun or a rotary machine gun? They seem to scatter out when you fire a bunch at a time?

 

[Highland Lofts]

I have over a dozen single shot shotguns.
Two twelve gauges, a sixteen gauge, four Ithaca model 66 twenty gauges and two ithaca model 66 in 410 and probable six other 410 single shots.
I have some Iver Johnson single shot shotguns. A 410, a 20 gauge, a 28 gauge and a 12 gauge.
I need to pick up a 16 gauge.

About 45 years ago I got a whitail deer with a 410 singleshot with a 410 rifled slug.
Lots of gray squirrels met thier dismise to my single shot shotguns.

 

[Cvans]

I read somewhere that in the Amazon forests the natives prefer single shot shotguns because of their reliability in the harsh conditions. I prefer single or double break open guns myself.

 

[tallpaul]

I read somewhere that in the Amazon forests the natives prefer single shot shotguns because of their reliability in the harsh conditions. I prefer single or double break open guns myself.

I bet it has as much to do with the cost of the guns....

 

[Boattale]

Most 12ga single shots kick like an angry mule… there’s a reason our ancestors Stateside used the equivalent of a 20ga smoothbore for their “one gun”.

That's exactly why there is a good Pachmayer pad on mine. It helps a lot with recoil and fit for long armed me.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

I bet it has as much to do with the cost of the guns....

And parts availability as well… I highly doubt the Amazon driver will deliver to the Amazon .

 

[dodo bird]

I read somewhere that in the Amazon forests the natives prefer single shot shotguns because of their reliability in the harsh conditions. I prefer single or double break open guns myself.

I can attest to this. Back in the 90s my father took me on a mission trip with his church to the Amazon. We went cayman hunting one night in a canoe. I was the guy holding the flash light. He had a single shot 20 gauge. Well we came up on 3 cayman 3 different times very close. Each time was a “click”. He only had 3 shells. I don’t know if his firing pin was broken or 3 bad shells. My Portuguese is non existent. Good times. I wish I could have given him more ammo. I left him with my 3 C-cell battery mag light. I would not be surprised if he still uses it.

 

[Mannlicher]

I killed my first deer back in 1953 with a Savage 20ga single shot. My son has it now, and his daughter killed her first turkey with it.

 

[Shortgrub]

I found my first shotgun under the Christmas tree when I was 12. It was a 12 ga. Winchester/ Cooey with a 30" bbl. It has been shot a lot over the years. A bunch of game and trap shooting. I did add a recoil pad on it after my first rounds of trap. Still have it.

 

[jstert]

under my bed now rests this h&r 20ga, 20” single. bought it shortly after i returned stateside to early retirement a dozen+ years ago, during the first of the obama gun droughts, at a pawn shop for $100. i needed a simple, nontactical, long gun in the car trunk as i roadtripped over the eastern half of the usa. added two boxes of #5 gameshot (the stoutest load that i could then find), universal sling, buttstock shellholder and recoil pad. i learned to run it fast.

 

[Ethan Verity]

I like them for field use, it's very satisfying cracking the action open after each shot, and pulling out that spent round followed by a trailing stream of fresh gunsmoke. I was doing skeet shooting recently with a friend's single shot 12 guage, and I loved it!

I would never want to rely on one for home defense, or dangerous game defense though... When you say you have one by your headboard at the moment, is that also what you're using it for?

 

[entropy]

I like them for field use, it's very satisfying cracking the action open after each shot, and pulling out that spent round followed by a trailing stream of fresh gunsmoke. I was doing skeet shooting recently with a friend's single shot 12 guage, and I loved it!

I would never want to rely on one for home defense, or dangerous game defense though... When you say you have one by your headboard at the moment, is that also what you're using it for?

Bet it was hard to get the true pairs......

 

[BillfromHighland]

I still have the old 36 inch full choke single shot 10 gauge I bought sometime around 78-80. Haven’t shot it in many decades but when you could still use lead, a 2 1/4 oz load of copper plated BBs was the real deal on geese.

 

[BillfromHighland]

I still have the old 36 inch full choke single shot 10 gauge I bought sometime around 78-80. Haven’t shot it in many decades but when you could still use lead, a 2 1/4 oz load of copper plated BBs was the real deal on geese.

Forgot to mention, you’d have to pick up your cap every shot, especially on the high flyers straight up!