After getting a bit off topic elsewhere, I thought I'd start a new topic to see if there are any singleshot enthusiasts that use their old or new singleshot rifles for hunting, and if so, what type of hunting you do?

marlinguy
I enjoy squirrel hunting, have a CPA made up just for the sport, has a Unertl 6X small game scope.
Bob

not old stuff... but I've been using a 45-70 Contender pistol with a 14" barrel & Burris 2-7X scope as my main deer hunting gun for years ( we are in shot gun zone, but are allowed hand gun use )... but I reciently pulled out a 10" 30-30 barrel & set it up with a Burris 2-7 scope, & am finding that combo particularly accurate... I pulled it out for Mrs Magnum to use this year on deer... but it's proven to shoot well enough if she decides not to go... I may use it instead...

also have a 16.5" 45 Colt / 410 vent rib barrel on a Contender carbine, that probably has shot more pesky rabbits than anything... but we have just reciently gotten an influx of red pine squirrels, that it seems to do a fine job with ( shooting .410 of course )

I also have an old Cooey 22 single shot that I keep around for kids to use that come visit... it's set up with a 2-7 rim fire scope, but shoots better than I do... so the kids have no trouble hitting what they are shooting at, if they do thier part...

I built my 45-70 Martini for hunting, I just don't go to rifle zone too much, so I haven't finished dialing in the multi leaf safari sights to distance yet, or put a finish on the base metal, which I plan to do, after the rear sight is regulated...

my lil Contender rabbit slayer

Started hunting with SS in the early 70's, ML.  Switched to BPCR about 10 years ago.  I do use a 2 barrel shot gun ML for birds.  Started that in the early 80's.

The only frustration encountered was dove hunting with a double twenty.  Reloading like crazy with birds flying all around
Gus

I have shot two wild boar (one real mean old one, one younger) with my oringinal Winchester Highwall 38-56.  XMP5744, Ideal 290 grain bullet for the big one, 260 gr 375248 for the younger one.  Sights are Lyman tang and Lyman 5A with the ivory bead up on the front. 

Jerry

Iowa is shotgun country, so I use a Greener Martini (Navy Arms  Co.) with a rifled 20 ga. barrel on it for Bambi's big brother.   

David
Montezuma, IA

I've run a lot of ammo through my #6 Improved also.  Very nice little camp rifle.  THOP

I've used various calibers in Contender pistols and carbines, my 40-65 Remington Rolling block, martini 22's for squirrels and my #1 45-70 for deer last year. Managed to take a doe last year with it with only an hour left to hunt. I have a .32 S&W rook rifle that I am going to use on squirrels here next weekend when the season is open and I have the time.

I have taken deer and a 350# black bear with my ultimate sisgle shot, .54 flintlock.  Monstor elk and mountain goats seem to be able to keep out of range

EdBu wrote on Sep 13^th, 2008 at 9:11am:

Where are the pics? And where were you today, instead of at the gun show?!!!!!!!!!

Well since Ed can't post his hunting pic, here it is:
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Nice oinker Ed, and a nice Martini too!

tar baby - I am surprized that we haven't had some kind of a response from "the Green Frog" about your "walking the frog" picture.
Good thread - I have enjoyed keeping up with it - the rimfire - cdpersons

mr rimfire

that was a play on the frogmoore rifle--this time the turtles have the uper hand. also that was nice shootin,regards,ben

Come on guys two pages already and nothing about...... what finer feeling on God's green earth than laying in a fresh mowed hay field and pushin a set trigger on a 219 Zipper or R2 Lovell while looking through the Lyman or Unertl at that big chuck standin up and smiling at you about 200 yards away. RIP.

I'm halfway from Virginia on my way to S.D. for prairie dawg hunting.

.223 in Ruger #3

.458 in Ruger #1  (ya can't take chances on a wounded one)

.308 in Remington 40X

Trophy pix as they occur.

I gotta be honest however, I've been cheating on my oldtimer's a bunch since I sold off some stuff and picked up a second 20TAC, this one a Dakota model 10 with English walnut and a 26" Lilja bbl. You just put the crosshairs on anything out to about 350 yards and when you pull the trigger they just fall over without a twitch and you get to watch it all through the scope.....simply amazing caliber.

One for the freezer with my 45/70 and 457125 Gov't bullet. Received the bullet mold in trade from 38 Cal... thanks again David!

Also filled tags this year with my Ruger #1 in 7mm STW and a 50's era Husky FN Mauser... (that's one of those funny guns with a steel rod and handle thingy that slides into the action)

I have used single shot rifles (exclusively) for hunting since the late 1970's.  Ruger No.1's in .22-250, 7mm Rem Mag and .30-338 Mag.

Currently building a 5.6X50R Martini Cadet for shooting "ground dogs".

I hunt wild boar, buffalo, elk,with my Peabody Stalker 45-70 accurate to 300 yds 26 in. barrel.
                                        Frank, Providence