single shot shotgun

[RidinForTheBrand]

You would have to be a really poor 87 shooter and a down right awful 97 shooter to get beat by a single shot.  At a competitive level there is no way a single shot will remotely compete with any SASS legal repeating shotgun.  (Double, 87 or 97).

Don't get me wrong I don't believe a single shot could beat a lever or pump, I'm just considering it for CAS until I can get a double, lever, or pump. Just so happens I will be picking a double up today. May not need to use the single, but probably will just to change it up a bit. Not wanting to do CAS to be the best, Just wanna do it cause I love old west guns and style.   

[Dalton Masterson]

I play with my single shot Stevens once in awhile. Its more fun trying to hit the spotters with the empty hull flying out than it is actually hitting the target...Mine ejects them straight back about 15 foot or so.
I agree it wouldnt be as fast as a 87, 97, or a double, but dang its fun anyway.
DM

[jefff]

ii agree that it seems to add to the game for me using single shot and would enough interest to justify a class that uses them be great.may be bonas for hitting spotters with the ejected hulls?

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

A few years back I purchased a Stevens DREAD NAUGHT single shotgun.  I'd had a last minute request to remove some "scale" from the hold of a bulk carrier in the Port of Prince Rupert BC, (Quite near Kechikan AK) prior to loading grain.  I ordered a case of steel wildfowl loads to be delivered express from Vancouver as I wouldn't put them through any of my other guns. As it was, each case self ejected as the gun popped open automatically!

I picked up welding goggles and a safety helmet from the ships repair shop, and adopted the Chief Engineer to assist and we went at it!.  I carefully plotted each shot to avoid ricochet from the angled bulkheads.  I was shorted two boxes from my ammo order.  A day and a half later, and out of shells I called a halt.  On;y 450 rounds was not quite enough and the crew had to spread tarpaulins over the partially filled holds to scrape what I missed.

My wife wrote an invoice for $1500 dollar plus expenses (paid without a blink), and later boasted that her husband "shot a sheep".  (She is Greek Cypriot.)

I have no plans to compete with this old beast!  BTW, My shoulder bruises kept me off the range for a month.