Who hunts with a single-shot rifle?

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Hookeye said:
Trying to figure out how I'm gonna change the bbl on my Ruger #3 and make it a .35 remington.
Been hunting w MZ and Ruger single shots for decades.
Single shot doesn't bother me at all.
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Must be plenty of people making barrels for the Ruger in any caliber, weight, length or flavor you want.
 
I'd like a barrel in B contour. Have contacted some makers, the ones I contacted, don't have the dims for that contour.
No hurry, will proly get a take off and have rebored.
Have it set back.
Trying to find a smith to do that.....most want to start w a brand new bbl.

If I had a #1, then I'd just throw money at it and have a synth stock, and Penrod Precision do the bbl, time the action.
The whole thing.
 
This is a bubba'd #3 i dont have a lot in.
Wears used and slightly dinged #1 wood
Idea is to have 1k in it without scope ....after fix or conversion.

A custom #1 is gonna be over 3k.

If going that route id buy a stainless one and have it redone. More money.

Prices for donors are too high, its hunting season, and people are silly. Of course a blued 1A in 250 savage comes along and ill just buy that and run my 760 in 35 rem and call it done.

I have my dads beat up #1 and this bubbad #3 so really dont need to have a 3rd.

Do think a #1 should be in the safe, beater, mint or custom. Theyre cool rifles and after youve had one......youll always want to have one. Just because.

Weird. But they get in your blood
 
The first shot is always the most important -
I hunt with #1s and Encores- on occasion... I think single shots make you a better hunter - and they reinforce good shot placement.
 
Looking back on my hunting days with Uncle Ed and his dog Henry, it was one shot, one kill, whether my gun was my single shot Savage or my Glenfield 99 semi-auto.
 
Random 8 said:
Even not counting the old deer drive days, a surprising number of times. Not the majority mind you, but a solid 30% depending on how you define "need".

I've only ever had one that might not have expired a reasonable distance from the first shot. This one was due to a "weird" bullet performance combined with a deer that moved on the trigger break. This one took a snap shot on a running deer after a 200+ yard blood trail to anchor. I would have fired more the first time, but she was gone in the timber before I could cycle the bolt. I guess technically both shots were singles a good time apart, so a single shot firearm would have produced the same outcome. I have had a bunch that might have made it across a property line or into a very difficult area to retrieve without a second CNS shot. Despite popular rumor, they will often jump up and go through the woods even after a shoulder hit from a high powered rifle. The second one in the brainstem guarantees DRT. I've also had a few where I did not trust the first shot due to perceived target movement at the shot or the action of the animal/possible bullet deflection, and shot until they were down.

I've also put down a few known wounded deer for other hunters (I have a reputation as "the blood trail guy" and enjoy trailing a deer, so I'm often drafted for this duty) that required from 1 to 4 shots on the run while breaking cover before assuming abient temperature. I was quite proud of the neighbor's 10 pointer I put down across his hayfield even though it took me 3 rounds and the first 2 hits were shall we say less than perfect. Slowed him down a bunch though. Running offhand at 175-200 yards, I'll take it.
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My brother is that guy.
I've heard him talk about shooting running deer and believed it. But hadn't seen it. I was with him and my niece sitting on the edge of a field. A doe came out at about 150 yards. She put a 123 SST into it and it reacted funny. Took off running across a dip and appeared about 300 yards away still running. He climbed on his truck to get high enough to shoot and dropped it with his 6mm. When I asked him where he aimed. He told me he didn't know. He was just killing it. To this day he's the only guy I know that repeatedly neck shoots deer and coyotes at a run.
That SST hit a rib and turned exiting the ham on the off side. I'm not a 123 6.5 fan.
 
.38 Special said:
I would not have thought a No. 1 RSI would look good in stainless, but that is gorgeous rifle.
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I honestly didn’t want it at all, but it was the only RSI I could find in 6.5x55, so I took a chance and bought it sight unseen. I’m so glad I did. Three people tried to buy it from me before I could get out the door at my FFL.
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6.5 Swede? My dream #1 has always been in .30US, but I'm pretty sure I could "live" with one in 6.5. What a nice combination.
 
I hunt with contenders. Have also carried single shot shotguns with slugs. On the flip side I have carried an AR with 20 rd mag. It’s kinda just whatever hits me as needing to go for a walk that particular day.
 
marksman13 said:
I honestly didn’t want it at all, but it was the only RSI I could find in 6.5x55, so I took a chance and bought it sight unseen. I’m so glad I did. Three people tried to buy it from me before I could get out the door at my FFL.
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That thing is gorgeous. The nose piece is a bit odd as it makes it look kinda blunderbuss-ish, but it certainly gets my stamp of approval.
 
Ugly Sauce said:
Not a fan of light bullets in any caliber. In a 6.5 I'd be using a 140 grain bullet.
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I like the 100 AMAX on light skinned game. It I didn't use that. It would be a 129 interlock.
The 123 has a profile that easily deflects on bone and becomes erratic.
 
Bfh_auto said:
My brother is that guy.
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A doe came out at about 150 yards. She put a 123 SST into it and it reacted funny. Took off running across a dip and appeared about 300 yards away still running. He climbed on his truck to get high enough to shoot and dropped it with his 6mm. When I asked him where he aimed. He told me he didn't know. He was just killing it. To this day he's the only guy I know that repeatedly neck shoots deer and coyotes at a run.
That SST hit a rib and turned exiting the ham on the off side. I'm not a 123 6.5 fan.
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You said it all when you asked him where he was aiming and he told you he didn't know.
Ship shots people like that are not sportsman's in my personal opinion.
Shoot and pray. I guarantee people like him shoot and lose more deer then they harvest.
Just my personal observations over fifty years.
 
marksman13 said:
I honestly didn’t want it at all, but it was the only RSI I could find in 6.5x55, so I took a chance and bought it sight unseen. I’m so glad I did. Three people tried to buy it from me before I could get out the door at my FFL.
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A fella on Gunbroker was trying to sell one of those exact rifles NIB for $3200 last Friday 10/21/22. I drooled over it but thats about all I could do. $3200 is a bit steep for me.
 
KansasTrapper77 said:
A fella on Gunbroker was trying to sell one of those exact rifles NIB for $3200 last Friday 10/21/22. I drooled over it but thats about all I could do. $3200 is a bit steep for me.
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$3200???!!! Wow! I gave $1600 for this one and thought it was overpriced then to be honest. No. 1s are steadily increasing in value though. Ruger hasn’t built one since the end of 2019/beginning of 2020.
 
marksman13 said:
$3200???!!! Wow! I gave $1600 for this one and thought it was overpriced then to be honest. No. 1s are steadily increasing in value though. Ruger hasn’t built one since the end of 2019/beginning of 2020.
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I’d probably give $1600 or more likely go halves with my father on $1600. We both are kind of on a 6.5x55 kick right now with all the new high BC bullets coming out and I’m a sucker for the Mannlicher stocks. But I’m the first right handed male on my father’s side for generations so the No. 1s really have our attention. They are 100% ambidextrous.
 
KansasTrapper77 said:
I’d probably give $1600 or more likely go halves with my father on $1600. We both are kind of on a 6.5x55 kick right now with all the new high BC bullets coming out and I’m a sucker for the Mannlicher stocks. But I’m the first right handed male on my father’s side for generations so the No. 1s really have our attention. They are 100% ambidextrous.
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Ruger built some blued RSI No. 1s in 6.5x55, but they are hard to find and expensive. Heck, all the RSIs are expensive. These days, all No. 1s are expensive. I hit a gold mine a while back. Older guy who was selling off big chunks of his collection. I bought most of his No. 1s. Another guy beat me to his Pre-64 Model 70s.
 
Highland Lofts said:
You said it all when you asked him where he was aiming and he told you he didn't know.
Ship shots people like that are not sportsman's in my personal opinion.
Shoot and pray. I guarantee people like him shoot and lose more deer then they harvest.
Just my personal observations over fifty years.
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I can guarantee you he doesn't. I haven't seen him miss a deer or coyote in the years. He's been hunting for over 30 years and has only lost one deer. It ran 50 yards into a hedge apple thicket. There was blood going in and no blood coming out. But you would have needed a chainsaw to get in there.
I shoot well. But he and my youngest brother are the freaks that can shoot running rabbits in the head with a 22. They don't think. They just kill things.
 
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