This is of course regarding single-shot rifles and shooting.

OK, besides cleaning the Augean stables in a single day, I casted lots of nice bullets, shot a few good targets, polished and fitted a Swiss buttplate to an old Winchester, fitted and polished a Helm lever to an old Winchester, worked over two 92 Winchesters, put together a SAA Colt that shoots well (Yeah I know they're not single shots).

Not as much as I would like.   

I installed my new lathe, and have it operational.  I moved my new Bridgeport mill into the back shop, wired it into the three phase converter, but haven't had time to start it up and get it working.

I finished two ballard .22 rifles.  Stocked and barreled a .22 lowall for my wife, still need to finish it.   

Shot in one match, all year.   

Cleared out my basement shop of a bunch of extraneous stuff, and have it fully functional for my gun and reloading work.

Purchased 350,000+ pieces of brass from the defunct Jamison brass company, and set up to sell it to users.  This has taken up about 30 hours a week of my time.   

Just the past week, have rebarreled my first single shot I owned, an H&A Junior .22.  Have barreled a 45-90 high wall to use next year in with my two rolling block 45-90's.

I did some things not pertaining to single shot rifles, but in that field I mostly did good at hanging around here with a great bunch of fellows. Happy New Year. Thanks for taking me along guys.

II introduced 2 kids to shooting, and they both prefered the single shots to the modern stuff i took out!

I actually managed to add 3 rifles to the safe. Got a beautiful BSA MK2 22lr that quickly became one of my favorites. Not quite fitting the theme, but I bought an old friends 45-70 bpcr a few years ago for silhouette,  and it has been killing him since that he did not have a 45-70 in the safe, so I traded him a traditional hunter for a rifle i wanted for years, an m1a (have not got to shoot it much). Lastly,  just managed to snag a falling block works in 28-35 that will my my main schutzen rifle now.

For 2026, hoping to get my wife into the game.

Never as much as I planned.

Cast a hook or two and have two more folks shooting vintage single shots regularly.

Finished and submitted another article to the Journal sharing my method of making an obsolete brass- publisher mentioned potentially March/April.

Built and shot 4 single shots in various competitions, not saying they're finished yet.  There's 4 more close that may make the grade in the next couple of months.

Dipped my toes into 3 more Schuetzen events out of my area, caught that bug.  Have plans of those three and potentially three more to attend in the coming year.

Built numerous small single shot related projects and started several more.  There'll probably be a post labeled 26 Projects this year (won't be that caliber, but either that number of them or they'll coincide building in this coming year).  One more entry left to the 25 projects post...

Met a few more of the members on this forum face to face, haven't been disappointed meeting any of them.

The most exciting thing this year was I finally acquired a Pope rifle. A 32-40 on a Win. highwall with a perfect bore. This is something I have wanted for more than 50 years. I bid on several in recent auctions and came in second every time. I was able to shoot a Pope that belonged to a friend and mentor when I was 19 and was hooked and never thought I could afford one but I got a good deal so I snapped it up. Now I am busy casting bullets and getting it ready to shoot soon. I am more tickled than a 3 handed monkey.