Posted on 08/25/2017 4:36:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A single shell or a single bullet in any gun is better than ANY unloaded weapon. I started with and still have a single shot .410 which is an excellent weapon when called upon. Great for a kids starter weapon to improve accuracy when the shooter knows he/she has only ONE shot.
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my grandfather’s old .410 with bird shot is still good for scarring the starlings out of the trees and occasionally killing one or two.
We keep an old .410 at our dock to deal with snakes.
Exactly...I got my son a single shot .410 for his first gun...He was nine...
Quick to reload too. My old HR twelver throws the empty hull about 20 feet behind me.LOL
Looks like a perfectly good shotgun to me.
I still have an old H&R 4.10 single shot that I keep on the back of my ATV as a snake gun out on the farm.
Just used it this week to take out a cottonmouth out at the pond!
It is supremely relevant when it is pointed at you.
It is if it's pointed at your face.
Single-shot over-under rifle-shotgun combos are generally underrated nowadays. Something like an over-under 20ga/.22LR is a fairly light, portable, versatile tool for harvesting a wide range of game. Savage Arms had a camper version of an OU which broke down into a couple pieces for easy carriage in a small case. And they tended to be very affordable, which was another advantage.
I still have one, 12ga full choke, have used it with magnums for duck, geese. I think I paid $79 at K-Mart many moons ago. Haven’t lit it off in 15 years at least.
That depends on whether or not one is standing in front of it.
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I think it was Tapco that made tactical furniture for those.
My Nephew had a neighbor who moved and left a whole bunch of fairly valuable stuff behind. Among it was maybe 20 boxes of 20 gauge shells. He gave them to me.
Now I once had a large number of guns but now had no .20 gauge at all. I found an old Revelation single barrel at a pawn shop and got if for $50 including tax.
It was rusty and cheap looking. I removed a large part of the rust and it actually cleaned up pretty well. The action itself was perfectly good and to my surprise it had an ejector if you opened the action all the way and an extractor if you were careful.
I live in a rural area and when I need to shoot some varmint which is too far away for a pistol, I nearly always grab that old 20 gauge and a few shells. It is probably my most used gun.
H&R Bolt Action 3 shot 16 Gauge with a poly choke. I wanted a 12 gauge but thought that may be too bold. I shoot from the left shoulder and had to learn how to reach over with my left hand to reach the bolt.
My point is that I learned to rely on my first shot since by the time I got the second loaded it was over. This is the case pheasant hunting.
My most accurate shot gun today is a single shot 12 gauge from Brazil that I paid $12 for about 50 years ago.
Good for hits. You don’t leave evidence lying around (except for one large piece that isn’t very useful), and it’s cheap enough to be disposable.
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