Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Why the Heck Would You Want a Single Shot?

Besides history, styling, and all that jazz, a single shot has a couple of practical advantages.

1) shorter overall length, even with a 26" barrel, so you get a better compromise between ballistics and length.

2) the lack of a magazine allows one greater loading flexibility. You can load the bullet to any desired OAL. Or you can load bullets that may otherwise not feed well.

Not only can single shots work satisfactorily, they may actually give the optimum first shot, at game.



turkey at 120 yards, through the wing butts. DRT, and little meat damage: