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Do any of y'all remember the fellow up in Canada, on the Atlantic coast I think, that used very nice English single barrels for goose and duck hunting? He was a member on this board, but has not posted in many years. I fear he is no longer among us. I always loved to see his pictures. Cannot remember his name.

Edit: I just remembered ......... Terry Lubzinski. Vancouver, BC. I miss him.

I have a Bentley single hammer gun 12 ga.really light have not used it a lot

Stan, Terry has a beautiful Reilly 12 ga. SxS SN 303xx which he posted on the Reilly line about 4 years ago. I hope he's still around but people did abandon this site during the "political purge" era.

I started out with a single barrel shotgun. I'm still thinking about how rarely I fire two shots at one bird.
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Thank you for your answers. Great to know that some of you use single shot guns for hunting. I would like to see pictures because I love single shot guns, shotguns and rifles, and if they have an external hammer, they look even nicer to me. In fact, I wouldn't mind having another one similar to mine in the same bore or 20 gauge, but I can't find it.

My W&E is not a Spanish gun. It was made by Wiggan&Elliott before 1888, when the factory closed. I have scarce information about it and I am sorry, I wish she could talk and tell me about its 150 year history. On the barrel is engraved: MAKERS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THE PACHA OF EGYPT. I have the original stock, but Milady has now one longer and beauty too.



I hope to see more of your guns and that will be more of us in this "one shot, one chance" philosophy of hunting.

Depicted are American wild turkeys shot with a 12 ga. Yildiz TK12 (4.25 lbs.), a .410 Yildiz TK36 (3lbs. 4 oz,) and American Woodcock shot with a Beretta M412 20 ga. (4 lbs., 13 oz.) My shooting partner's gun was not photoed with the doodles.
I prefer single-shots for the wild turkeys but treasure and prefer a second shot on the smaller birds.

Beautiful countryside, camp.

I've got a "new to me" single that is being prepped for next waterfowl season. It is a Sarasqueta Zephyr, Honker model, that is a 10 ga. 3 1/2" magnum with a 36" barrel. It is going to be a dedicated pass shooting, long range duck/goose gun. The original choke had been honed out to .021", which is an absolute travesty, IMO. It is being threaded for interchangeable chokes, to return it's ability to make long range shots. Pics next year, hopefully, after it's "blooded".

Good one, Stan.. Will you use Briley for the choke work? My choice, but I am no expert on that field. I like full chokes in my 12 bore shotguns, to each his own. RWTF

Nope, one of my best friends designed and manufactures CompNChoke and Gobblin Thunder choke tubes, just a short drive from my house. The machine shop there does excellent barrel work as well. They offered me the opportunity to test all their different constrictions, on their pattern plate, with my loads, to determine the "sweet spot", then buy the one I want.

Hard to turn down a deal like that.

I treated my self at Holts to a 12 bore 2 1/2” nitro re-proofed Edwinson Green single. When I tried it at clays with 28 gram loads it leapt out of my forward hand. It did account in fine style for an oncoming pheasant, probably because the jump intersected the flight path.

As I could not shoot with it I sold it to Malcolm King, and it ended up at Rock Island with much of his collection.

It is now on your side of the pond. I should have tried it with 21 gram loads. Perhaps one of you will get the chance.



Not a problem I had with this little Thomas Patent.410 William Moore and Grey, now in the WMG collection. That is one I certainly should have hung on to.