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Thompson Center guy here!
Contender.....couple dozen 10's, a few 14's and some 21's for the light weight carry in the field hunting. Those 10's rule the pistol range out to 100 yards(scoped) and 50 yards(iron-well at least in my younger good seeing days)! My favorite: 14" .357Maximum, shoots those big slugs with extreme accuracy.
Encore.....mostly rifle barrels. And when I look at something new, it usually will say Bullberry on the side.
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I had a Contender pistol at one time, with 14" .223Rem barrel and .22LR barrel. But, it simply wasn't my 'thing' so I sold it.
My all-time favorite singleshot is my .22LR BSA International Martini match rifle - a great old competition rifle from England, long ago replaced by the botlies like the Anschutz and Walther match rifles. But the old Martini still shoots better groups than I can. It came with no sights, so I found a nice aperture sight on Ebay, along with a Freeland globe front sight. I also mounted a scope rail on it, but prefer the aperture sights. 14 pounds of singleshot fun! 
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I love single shot guns i have a number of t/c contender and encore barrels and i plan on building up my collection per
sonally i think will make you a better shooter.when you only have one shot you make it count.
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Hey OK Hunter,
Just got wind of your single shot preference. They sure can be a lot of fun, can't they? I'm lucky to have several great SS rifles...namely 3 1895 Winchester Lowalls and a Winchetser Hiwall as well a a Sharps 45-70 Quigley.
Lowalls are 22 LR w/ #5 heavy barrel, door knob and hand stop...a .17 Ackley Hornet w/ single-set trigger and a 218 Mashburn Bee. All are just like new and shoot great...and I SHOOT THEM !!! My Hiwall is a 38-55 with vintage Leupold 10X target scope. Really a beautiful combination and it shoots fine. I load 7 grains of Trail Boss behind a 250 gr. lead bullet...shoots like a .22..no appreciable recoil or noise and groups inside 3 inches at 100 yards...benched.. Really my favorite to shoot at the range when it comes to SS rifles. Altho the others are a joy to shoot as well. Really tough when you have to decide what great rifle you are going to shoot...I love it!
Have other great pieces, but the most fun is the SS rifles...gives you time to shoot, bullshit, load and shoot and BS some more....What a great life...
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I tend to agree with your ideas on using a single shot making one a better shooter. I don't believe it happens by default but I do believe that the longer one uses a single shot rifle, the more certain he becomes of his shot, prior to taking it.
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OK Hunter
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Winnebago wrote: Hey OK Hunter,
Just got wind of your single shot preference. They sure can be a lot of fun, can't they? I'm lucky to have several great SS rifles...namely 3 1895 Winchester Lowalls and a Winchetser Hiwall as well a a Sharps 45-70 Quigley.
Lowalls are 22 LR w/ #5 heavy barrel, door knob and hand stop...a .17 Ackley Hornet w/ single-set trigger and a 218 Mashburn Bee. All are just like new and shoot great...and I SHOOT THEM !!! My Hiwall is a 38-55 with vintage Leupold 10X target scope. Really a beautiful combination and it shoots fine. I load 7 grains of Trail Boss behind a 250 gr. lead bullet...shoots like a .22..no appreciable recoil or noise and groups inside 3 inches at 100 yards...benched.. Really my favorite to shoot at the range when it comes to SS rifles. Altho the others are a joy to shoot as well. Really tough when you have to decide what great rifle you are going to shoot...I love it!
Have other great pieces, but the most fun is the SS rifles...gives you time to shoot, bullshit, load and shoot and BS some more....What a great life...
Winnebago in Illinois
You're sure right on these points Winnebago! I picked up a TCR 87 Aristocrat with .308, .223 barrels and most recently a .22 hornet barrel. What a fun battery to shoot.
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I have a Ruger #1V in 25-06. My favorite rifle....
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I have a New York Militia Remington Rolling block in 50/70 i still shoot now and then and Sharps that is still in the process of rebarreling with a heavier barrel chambered for 45 2 7/8 sharps (45-110). The Sharps was a 45/70 previous.
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I couldn't keep from laughing at the damn post turtle...
Good stufff on your big bores. I don't have anything that large but have friends who shoot the 1000 yd matches with them. I'm impressed.
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http://conservative-sugar.tressugar.com/1712018
Heres a link to the joke that goes with the post turtle pic ok hunter. Many advantages to long range big bores. Wind drifts the bullets very very little. Good eyes and a creedmore sight make it fairly easy with a little practice to become profecient at long distance. Alot to be said about them really. The 50/70 is only a 200-300 yard rifle for the most part they drop off very quick but they make a helluva a wallop when they hit at any distance. The 45 caliber buffalo guns shoot much much flatter and much much farther. However it was said in the old days that sometimes a 45/70 wouldnt knock a buffalo down when a 50 cal was a stopper if you got it there. The 45-90s saw more use then the 110s in the buffalo days, the 110s came along at the tail end if not almost to late to see use. The New York State Militia refused to adopt the 45/70 in 1872 cause they felt it lacked stopping power and chose the 50/70 instead. Not that i agree with that though either one will stop a horse or a man easy. Think it was cause it was such a long drop off in size compared to the 58 cal rifled muskets of the day that they were leaving behind that it looked small.
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