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Thanks guys - seems like most of the fellows I know who own Number Ones don't hunt with them. They just haul 'em out of the safe now and again for a range trip or a little fondling...

I intend to hunt with mine!

Regards, Guy

Guy,

Spent 20yrs in Earstern washington in steep and deep, wide open, pretty much everything e.wa has to offer with a Ruger #1 B in 30-06. Loved every minute of it. Never once was at a loss with only one shot. Infact I was prolly better off.

Buddies used to brag me up claiming I could load just as fast as any bolt gun. That sure was nice of them. But the fact is I was fast enough to get it done.

Within the next 5 years I have a goal to obtain another in either -06 or 25-06 and wouldn't pass on a deal on a 7mm.

I loved my #1 and yes I hunted the livin piss outa it!!

I've hunted with nothing but either a Ruger No.1 or a drilling, for the past 4 seasons or so. Alaska, Mexico, RSA, and the Lower 48. I can detect no handicap, and suspect that those that perceive one, do so, without ever giving it a try. JMO. We all have our like and dislikes.

Jeff

Let me see. I have hunted ground squirrels, prairie dogs, coyotes, turkeys, pronghorns, whitetails, mule deer, caribou, springbok, impala, tsessebe, warthog, gemsbok, kudu and Cape buffalo with a single-shot. A lot of this was with a Ruger No. 1, but some were with T/C Encores, a Merkel K-1 and a couple of different drillings. Oh, and a wolverine, taken running at over 200 yards with the Merkel in the Northwest Territories.

I did have a PH along when hunting the Cape buffalo, but then just about everybody does, even most PH's. But the first shot went in the right place and there was no emergency. In fact I know several African PH's who are happy to guide single-shot hunters after dangerous game, because most of us are careful about where we put the first shot, the most important one. Most of us are also pretty adept at reloading quickly, especially with No. 1's, probably just as fast (or faster) than the average guy with a bolt action.

Haven't gotten an elk yet with a single-shot, so might have to correct that this fall.

I do hunt with singleshot rifles. Usually an old Marlin Ballard. This muley was taken with my Union Hill #9 in .38-55 in 2007.

I carried a Browning high wall for years then I went to bolt guns for a while. Now I am on the T/C Encore thing I have 3 frames rifle barrels in .270, .35 whelen,.375 H&H and 45-70 I find them pretty Darn accurate and very lightweight. I let my hunting buddy carry my encore.338 win mag last year and he bought it from me before we broke camp. I find reloading time is not any issue it just kinda flows.
I much pefer hunting with a single shot for many reasons.

No issues at all with using a single shot on big game. I really think they have made me a better shooter and hunter. Actually most of the follow up time is occupied with getting settled back in with the proper sight picture between shots, and that's an issue regardless of what action one might carry.

If I made my living with dangerous game, I'd carry a double for sure.

Never felt the slightest handicap with a No.1 or a Browning B-78. Killed quite a few with both.

First few years deer hunting was with a New England Firearms 1999 white tails unlimited edition Handi-Rifle 270win. The vegitation aroun here is thick woods lots of hardwoods and such. Other than scope zero I have taken two shots and two bucks with that rifle, two time one shot one kill.

I hunt with my #1's. I usually save my NEF for farting around with..
My Encore pistol sees a lot of fresh air, too.

I use my 7x57 1A quite a bit on pigs. I took it out the other day after red deer and saw a good stag. I could of taken him easily with the single shot but it was my brothers turn to shoot so he got it. I'm going out after fallow deer next week so the No.1 may get another run.

Thank you very much.

Someday, I plan on buying an old Remington Rolling Block
in 7x57MM with a 30" barrel to hunt deer with. Not a safe
queen, but a good shooter.

For me the Browning78 in 30-06has done me just fine. This is my moose and bear gun. Somehow the single shot rifle makes you a better shot or a dead shot [THE GRIZZ WILL EAT YOU]