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Retreever Full Member Offline Posts: 198 Joined: Mar 21^st, 2020	My First Single Shot Rifle Mar 21^st, 2020 at 4:21pm	Print Post
	H&R 1871 Buffalo Classic in .45-70, I was lucky enough to find one locally at a reasonable price. This is a break action single shot rifle with a 32" barrel and a Williams Rear Peep Sight (elevation/windage adjustable) with a Lyman 17A Front Globe Sight. I was also able to source a Smith Enterprises M95 Rear Ladder Sight second hand for about $70.00USD , which I will install later.
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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1303 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: My First Single Shot Rifle Reply #1 - Mar 21^st, 2020 at 5:38pm	Print Post
	There are many who call the 1871 Buffalo Classic a very fine entry-level single shot. I hope you have lots of fun with it and that it inspires you to experience some of the other rifles that you may already have read about on this forum. Bill Lawrence


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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2028 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: My First Single Shot Rifle Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2020 at 11:14am	Print Post
	Retreever, What you have here is an excellent rifle to set the hook that leads to all kinds of "conditions" best of luck! Just a short story... I got my father started in this shooting activity by having him shoot one of my rolling blocks - his first Quigley in '94? His first purchase was a H&R 1871 in 45-70, the only problem with it was the lack of a tang. He wanted a tang sight on it so that became a project of mine... he liked it so well then, he bought a second one in 38-55 - same, same. Before he passed he had purchased several other rifle, Ballards, rollers, Sharps, high walls, these all went by the way side and he shot the H&R's till the end claiming that the accuracy from these break-opens were untouchable. I have never been convinced they were that good but he shot them well and frequently spilled a can of whoop-A$$ on me. Greg

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Retreever Full Member Offline Posts: 198 Joined: Mar 21^st, 2020	Re: My First Single Shot Rifle Reply #3 - Mar 22^nd, 2020 at 1:18pm	Print Post
	MrTipUp wrote on Mar 21^st, 2020 at 5:38pm: There are many who call the 1871 Buffalo Classic a very fine entry-level single shot. I hope you have lots of fun with it and that it inspires you to experience some of the other rifles that you may already have read about on this forum. Bill Lawrence Hey Bill, thanks for the encouragement and I am constantly checking online sites here in Canada for some of those 'other rifles' - I think I would definitely like to try the different 'technologies' i.e. rolling block and falling block. Issue right now is cost, even one of the Italian replica's is a couple of grand used here. Roger


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Retreever Full Member Offline Posts: 198 Joined: Mar 21^st, 2020	Re: My First Single Shot Rifle Reply #4 - Mar 22^nd, 2020 at 1:20pm	Print Post
	GT wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2020 at 11:14am: Retreever, What you have here is an excellent rifle to set the hook that leads to all kinds of "conditions" best of luck! Just a short story... I got my father started in this shooting activity by having him shoot one of my rolling blocks - his first Quigley in '94? His first purchase was a H&R 1871 in 45-70, the only problem with it was the lack of a tang. He wanted a tang sight on it so that became a project of mine... he liked it so well then, he bought a second one in 38-55 - same, same. Before he passed he had purchased several other rifle, Ballards, rollers, Sharps, high walls, these all went by the way side and he shot the H&R's till the end claiming that the accuracy from these break-opens were untouchable. I have never been convinced they were that good but he shot them well and frequently spilled a can of whoop-A$$ on me. Greg Thanks for sharing the story, I'm already feeling the pull. I will be installing a Smith Enterprise M95 Ladder Sight on this gun. Roger


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