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Back in the '60s I hunted with the men down near Groton Plantation in the Savannah River swamp for deer, with dogs. There was one fella from S. Carolina, who was a member of the Red Bluff Club where we hunted, that used a single shot. I never looked at it closely, but now that I am older and know a little more about guns I am sure it had to have had an ejector. If I told you how fast he could cycle buckshot through that thing it would sound like a big lie. As a boy I commented on it, and the only explanation I got was that he held three shells between his fingers to reload faster. If sounded like a slow cycling pump gun. Still amazes me, after all these years.


SRH

2-piper

I think you are referring to an article by the then Gun Digest editor Ken Warner, title (if i recall) why not try a single.

He lamented the lack of a decent snap action single, still not available so many years later. The IZ18 comes close though.

Stan, if you practice with one or more shells in the left hand, and if the gun is an ejector, you can reload very fast. The process becomes automatic.

Shotgunlover;
I believe that is the article I was thinking of, sounds right anyway. Just got my Kens mixed up. Not sure if Ken Waters ever wrote for Gun Digest but he did a lot of writing for Handloader Magazine.

I agree, SL, but I just can't describe how fast this guy was. I have practiced it with a Ruger No. 1, .45-70, and use this practice on the dove field with my ejector guns (my gunbearer/loader struck out for greener pastures ), but could never get as proficient as he.

SRH

SL, I totally agree with you on the one barrel shotgun experience.
At least with my present day proficiency, my second shots trying to correct an
initial miss are completely non productive so I would do as well or maybe better
if I knew I did't have a quick follow up.

Next saturday I am going to experiment loading only one barrel .

JC