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I know a lot of us learned to shoot with a single shot 22. How about sharing those great single shots we've used over the years and have a special place in our hearts. Both of these a special to me.

This is the one I learned on. I was just back in NY to help my dad get ready for an auction. He is moving to a senior apartment and is clearing out a lot of his stuff. I am the only one of the kids to have followed through with hunting and shooting as an adult so he gave me the old Winchester 67 he had as a young man and used to teach my brother and I to shoot. I carried it a ton of miles as a kid.



This one is a Winchester 1902 I bought 25+ years ago to throw behind the seat of the truck for a trapline gun, mostly to kill trapped coyotes. It had a broken and poorly repaired stock. I had a decent piece of maple and made a replacement stock. It's killed more coyotes than all my varmint guns combined.

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That has a lot of cool factor going on

Old Stevens - dusted it off a couple weeks ago and put a hundred rounds through it. Had a blast, forgot just how accurate it was.......

I have a few 22RF rifles, but only 1 SS. This was built on a donated 40XB receiver. It has a Shilen trigger and barrel.




The Talley rings are on custom bases. The scope came from Mike Walker's estate. It is one of only 3 produced in the Remington Custom Shop. It has a 3 pos safety and was rust blued by Turnbull.

My guess, Butch, is that it shoots one hole groups.

I have a 1928 Page-Lewis Olympic Model C .22 Single Shot.

It's as simple as simple can get. I love it.

TC bbl made from a 513T

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Very cool

Old remington that gets regular use. Had to reline the barrel, and the stock has been replaced since this photo. I bought it as a project, not expecting to shoot it much, but it is one of my most used guns.

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precision industries wildcat
Hamilton
Quackenbush

Remington 580

Some pretty cool single shots so far, both old and new. Thanks guys.

A Steven's 1915 Favorite® with the correct 'no-drill' vintage Steven's scope newly mounted. I've had the gun for several years but just found the scope and the conditions of both closely match -






A couple of Steven's No. 10 single shot pistols -




Savage Model 1904 'Juniors', bottom two are the 'Special' version with checkered stocks and higher figured wood.

Gene,

Those are some fine single shots.

Mart

I have one like the top one but iirc mine is RAU

The middle one is my single shot

Harold Rau, a Florida retiree, decided he wanted to get into the gun making business and in 1969 started RAU ARMS CORP. in El Dorado, KS and introduced his RAU WILDCAT 500. There were TWO basic rifles offered, the Wildcat 600 was just a tiny bit fancier than the 500 and cost a few bucks more.

Rau sold out just a year later (Aug. 1970) to PRECISION INDUSTRIES (also known as Mountain Arms) of Ozark, MO. My rifle from this new company is stamped PRECISION INDUSTRIES ARMS DIV. OZ MO USA. They continued to mark their rifles as RAU up to 1975 at which time it became known as the Mountain Arms Wildcat, but stamped PRECISION as noted above. The company "fizzled out" in 1978 after producing 6,243 Wildcats.

Nice collection of shooters right there.

Built this for my best friend of 57yrs.

Wow!

Nice work!

Some day I'm gonna get proficient enough to post pictures here... I've also got my dad's model 67 that he purchased used in the late 1930's; it's one of the real early ones and to my knowledge its never lost any accuracy. Got about 5 22's but only two single shots. Besides the model 67 there's a Winchester model 121-D single shot, produced 1964-1967, that I picked up circa 1995. Some of those old single shot 22's are a lot more accurate than most folks realize. Playing with them is a real trip down memory lane for me. Sometimes even woodchuck hunt with a single shot 22 the way my dad & his buddies did back before WWII, (sometimes with the same mod. 67 he used back then to make it really special). Stalking, stealth, and a single 22 LR to the head will anchor a 'chuck out to at least 50 yds. Just think of how many guys got their start with a single shot 22 doing stuff like that.

Sheridan knockabout
Stevens model 10
Smith and Wesson 1891 3rd model perfected
Savage 101

Butch,
Pardon my ignorance. But, what is that gun you built for your friend?

Gave a daughter a Savage 1904. I like my my Remington #4, but it is going to become a 25-20. I learned on a Remington targetmaster. I've owned a bunch of various Savage and Stevens singles. Does a 22-410 count?

I love the S&W single shot

Do you shoot it?

Most assuredly.

No,I don't shoot the S&W; although I bet it would be accurate. I believe they competed with em during the early Olympics.

I'm waiting for someone to post a Colt Camp Perry.

It is an old, about 1900, Stevens Favorite take down model. It was my friends Grandfather's rifle. Thom gave it to me and I had it several years. I found a NOS barrel and Jim Wisner had the other little parts that I needed.
His expression when I gave it to him was worth a million dollars. His Grandson has it now along with his great great great Grandfather's Civil War Sword and his Great Grandfather's Masonic sword.He is a good kid that treasures these things.

geneb,

I had to login and thank you for posting that Stevens with a scope. That is a heck of a nice gun and quite an accomplishment to research and then find and finally mount that scope.

I do like it also. Very nice.

Wow Butch, you deserve an award for that. God will repay you for your kindness. I like that gun. Having seen it now I will set out to find one. Thanks for sharing.

I love those Favorites!

I had both sides minimally engraved on both sides by Roger Kehr.
One side has Opi-Reed.

I understand that Opi is German for grandfather and Reed id the grandson.

On the other side is a saying they have when the leave after a visit. Being musicians they say this when their visit is over.

I am surprised no one has posted a Kimber 82G

I live an hour from the CMP North store, and purchased several.

A couple with the same early Savage Model 3 single shot action -
- top is a version of the Steven's 53-B 'Buckhorn' made exclusively for Montgomery Wards with a special target type stock with sling swivels. It's drilled & tapped for target sights and a scope (for a Mossberg scope, which Montgomery Wards also sold versions of). 24" barrel.
- bottom is a Savage 3-B, the 3-ST which was the catalog designation for the 'Target' version that had a special sight set and factory sling swivels. Drilled & tapped for Weaver side mount scopes. 26" barrel.

Both came with Savage/Stevens hooded front sights (one ramp & one not) and folding windage adjustable rear barrel sights.


Some Savage Model 1905's -


The reaction of someone getting a Savage 1905, back in the day...

I too have to say Wow!

I bought a Winchester 1900 in 2000. For the kids originally. Now they have far out grown it and it is mine, all mine.
Just this last weekend I replaced the sights. The rear notch sight was way too bitty for my eyes.
I got a Marbles Bullseye barrel mounted peep. Then needed to replace the front sight because the original was too short.
I had a front post sight from a Remington 521T that I had replaced with a Lyman Globe sight. I thought that the Remington sight might be tall enough.
It might be, but I have only shot the rifle at 20' in the garage with CCI CB Longs. Results in the picture.




It was a nice Sunday afternoon.
Lou

Just have one single shot, pre war BSA Martini, very accurate, eventually going to add barrel blocks and put a 6x Lyman Junior Targetspot on it.

I think this is the only one I have left... Might still have a cricket in the safe, need to look and see but this one I know is still around. Call it the "mini Quigley". I drilled and tapped the receiver for a sight and hammer, (hard as hell). Added a knurled rod to assist cocking the hammer for the kids. Works with colibri and standard LR. Used these days to keep the squirrels and crows off the bird feeders.

Cricket .22 Magnum...it is the only all stainless one I have ever seen.







Harrington & Richardson auto-ejecting single shot....







FIE Bronco....

NEF Youth...





Remington...but I can't remember the number...refinished by a friend...





Savage 24-DL .22 Magnum/20 ga.

Some great old guns being posted. Here is a Remington Model 4 from @ 1903. Real nice shape for over 100 years old. Still has some case colors on the frame.

Lots of very cool single shots.

Here's a Remington 510P



Here's my Remington 33 NRA Junior Target

Glad to see you still have it, Augie! I would regret swapping it if it hadn't been to you!

Ya'll are reminding me I need to get my 1915 Favorite fixed. It shoots well, just needs the ejector fixed

It's not your "ejector", from what I see, it's a standard extractor,....it's the LINK, and perhaps it's pins that's out of skew.

OK, if it's a LATE model, it may be an extractor -ejector setup,.....

Needs what I call, "re-timed". The existing link CAN be adjusted,.... we discussed that here some years back,....thread title was "The Missing Link"

You may remember that that particular setup is not as "simple" as it would seem at first glance, dunno. It's almost impossible to completely eliminate a certain amount of "pot belly" by the over center link nature of the action design.

GTC

1931 Colt Camp Perry single shot 22LR
I got it a month ago, have not shot it.
I left if with my brother and told him to shoot a group and send me a pic.

Nice to live near a CMP store

suffice to say I took it apart once. I studied everything, then decided discretion was the better part of valor. I managed to get it back together, with some difficulty

I concluded it did have an ejector, but the components were worn, and out of kilter. That's another project to bring you, later this summer