"single shot" revolver

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About 5 years ago, I was in a gunshop, and the gunsmith had a "single shot" revolver. let me explain

It looked like a SAA, but was a topbreak, single shot, but it had the weight of a SAA. Has anyone else seen or heard of a pistol like this? I figure it would be good for introducing new people to shooting, but I do not know who the manufactered this pistol

Thanks in advance
 
Are you sure it was a top-break? Savage made a single-shot .22 that looked like a SAA but the single-shot "cylinder" and intregal barrel swung out to the side for loading. It was a Model 101, made from 1960 to 1968.

Dean
 
Ruger made a SAA looking single shot a few years back. Probably used a blackhawk frame. I believe it was called the "Hawkeye" and was in .256 calibre. Quantrill
 
Mike,
While I never had one,(heck! I never even saw one in person), I am pretty sure you are correct. The pictures I saw "looked" like the breach folded out similiar to a revolver cylinder. I know he said top break, I was just thinking of look alike factor of a SAA. Quantrill
 
Mike,
Right on the Hawkeye. Kind of like the Colt Camp Perry. Revolver frames, no cylinder. Just a "block" for loading.
The only top-break built on a revolver frame that comes to mind are the S&W single shots from around the turn of the century. And they didn't look anything like a SAA. (There also were the Sheridan and the S&W Straight Line, but they looked like Semi-Autos)

Dean
 
Ruger Hawkeye, like a SAA, S&W Straight Line , like a semiauto, Colt Camp Perry, like a DA revolver and H&R ,a top break single shot ,designed from their revolver.
 
My uncle had a sgl shot like this I saw when I was a kid, I always wondered what it was. I think it was a .22, I don't recall what the action was like. His had dummy rounds in the exposed cylinders when you looked at it from the front.
 
Thanks for the information

Sorry work has kept me a little busy. Deadin it was a few years ago,and I am pretty sure it was a top break, I think it was the H&R mete talked about. Thanks again everyone
 
Dean

Deadin/Dean

I thought it was but it may not have been, what I definitly remember it was a top break, and looked and felt like a regular revolver (it was over three years ago) I thought it was a good idea for getting a new shooter used to shooting a "full sized" revolver without worrying about more than one shot.

I know I can just load one round in a revolver....and when I am with new shooters I will load empty cases with regular rounds, to see how their trigger control is. but there has been more than one that will take a shot and then turn around with the weapon....usually just because they forget about the safety rules..... I have modified how I teach new shooters....now i only concentrate on the four rules the first time I take them to the range, and basically ignore any fundementals of marksmanship. I would rather have a safe shooter versus an accuracte shooter, at least until I kow they will come to the range again....

thanks again for all the replies
 
Darn memory and pictures

Dean, that is not it, however looking at the other H&R revolvers, I realise how my memory could be slipping.... this would be so much easier if:

1. I was back in the states (specifically Arizona) and
2. The shop I saw it in was still open.

If I remember right it was like Pipoman described, it had a cylinder ( don't remember if it had dummy rounds in it. Darn memory must be getting to me:D

Thanks again, I'll surf on for more info though
 
You know...

For some reason I'm thinking that Savage made a single-shot revolver look handgun in the 1950s...

Oh man, I'm hoping that I have the answer...

Savage made the Model 101, a single shot .22 that looked a LOT like an Old West revolver. It wasn't top break, though...

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The likely suspect is the Savage 101 although, as deadin says, it opens to the side, not topbreak.

Mendoza of Mexico also made a single shot .22 faked up to look like a SAA. Arizona seems a likely place for one to turn up.

Sheridan tried to branch out from air rifles and sold a single shot .22 pistol, the Knockabout. But it doesn't much resemble a revolver.
 
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Savage 101

I have a Savage 101 and it is too small and very light. I only shot it 5 times and could not hit the side of a barn even if I was inside with the doors closed. Still got it and made a case to keep it in. It is in pretty good condition according to a gun collector/dealer. Smith & Wesson made a top break single shot (lst Model Single Shot) built on the frame of a 38 single action. only 1251 were made in 22, 32 S&W and 38 S&W.
 
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