Trying to find a Single Shot .22LR rifle

Thanks, Mike.

I've been trying to locate some good sites on used guns.

the gunbroker link from RichC is really good-- are there some more places you would recommend for finding good used deals?
 
+1 on the old Remingtons - either 514 or 510. The 510 will probably be easier to find and cheaper.

The downside to them is that they didn't come with dovetail scope grooves (unless you are lucky enough to find one with an "X" suffix). But, for open-sights shooting they are about as accurate as anyone could ever ask for.
 
If the budget will stand it, you can get a CZ bolt action and put a single shot adapter in the magazine well until ready for a repeater.

Oh, torotoro already said that.

I have a single shot adapter in my old Savage-Anschutz for slowfire, 5 and 10 round magazines for what they used to call "sustained fire."
 
You may want to consider the Henry lever action if you don't want a semiauto. It won't get old after a couple range trips.
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I agree with this. I think a LA rifle is a better beginners gun than a bolt. Most of the cheap beginners rifles aren't exactly easy to operate for little guys and gals. Lever Action 22's are easy to operate and very fun.

When we were kids...big brother got the Remington single shot, biggest brother got a Remington nylon 66, and I got the Winchester 9422 Mag...I won! Always. Big brother with the single shot took a lot of ribbing for his slow operation, biggest brother played that hi cap fast firing thing of the 66 to death but it was still Tupperware and not the Polished wood and metal of that sweet Winchester lever action and this in a time when new Clint Eastwood movies were on every Saturday afternoon...I had the best rifle and we all knew it. If you have to get a single shot, make it one of those thousand dollar ones or it will be shamed at the swimming hole! I totally regret ever letting that rifle go. Get the Henry, my bud has one and it's a great rifle.
 
It's probably cheaper for the factories to crank out a simple blow-back semi-auto than it is to build a bolt or lever rifle, and most people will get the semiauto if the bolt action costs just as much or more. That's likely why there are so few single shots out there.
 
For what it's worth, since I've only had it a week, I like my NEF Sportster. It's a good little gun for around $150-$180 new.
 
Thompson Center now has a single shot kid's Rifle and it's under $200.00 in it's non-camo form !It would be a very cold day in you know where when I paid over $400.00 for any .22 !
 
oneoldsap said:
It would be a very cold day in you know where when I paid over $400.00 for any .22 !
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But you'll gladly pay that much for a centerfire rifle that you'll use less, right?

Why should a .22 be cheaper than a centerfire rifle anyway? The lock has just as many parts, the wood for the stock costs just as much, the barrel has to be bored just as precisely. But, most of us demand that .22's be cheap and cheap is exactly what we get, awful triggers with a mile of creep, plastic parts, cheap wood, unpolished metal parts etc.

Three of my .22's cost over $400, two of them way over $400, and why not? I shoot .22's more than all my other calibers combined. Why should I do the majority of my shooting with a cheap gun?
 
One reason the cheap .22s can be cheap is that high quality steel and heat treating the action are not necessary. When you get a .22 made like a centerfire, it costs like a centerfire.

On single shot seldom thought of as a .22 is the T/C Contender or Encore. IF cheap isn't your overridding concern, a T/C carbine with a .22LR barrel is a fine single shot, with the added plus of adding centerfire barrels in a wide variety of calibers later as an option.
 
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