Remington, Sharps, and Browning all made single-shot rifles using different actions, such as the rolling block and falling block.

Remington introduced the single-shot bolt-action XP-100 pistol in 1963, which heralded the era of high-performance, high-velocity pistols.

While it chambered more powerful cartridges than the 1866 and 1873 models, the toggle link action was not strong enough for the popular high-powered rounds used in Sharps or Remington single-shot rifles.

Most of the Boers had single-shot breech loading rifle such as the Westley Richards, the Martini-Henry, or the Remington Rolling Block.

The. 221 Remington Fireball was created by Remington Arms Company in 1963 for use in their single-shot bolt-action pistol called the XP-100.

Based on the. 223 Remington case, the 7 mm TCU is popular in single-shot handguns such as the Thompson Center Arms ' Contender and G2 Contender.

The Spanish regular infantry was armed with fast-firing M1893 7mm Mauser rifles, while the loyalists were equipped with single-shot Remington Rolling Block rifles in. 43 Spanish ( also using smokeless powder ).

Most manufacturers of bolt action or single-shot rifles offer the. 25-06 as a standard chambering and factory loaded ammunition is available from Remington, Winchester, Federal Cartridge and most other major manufacturers.

Beginning around 700 A. D., scientists and inventors in Ancient China developed different grades of gunpowder and different types of firearms, including single-shot smooth-bore fire lances, multi-barreled guns, multiple-launch artillery rockets and the first cannon in the world made from cast bronze.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Most firearms before the era of cartridges were single-shot and muzzleloading, with the exception of the cap-and-ball revolvers, such as Samuel Colt's, which appeared shortly before the cartridge era.

Versions did exist, which usually fell into two categories: single shot derringers, and target pistols, which were essentially single-shot rifle actions cut down to pistol size.

Single shotguns are not widely used in shotgun sports, as most events require the ability to quickly fire two successive shots, which would require reloading a single-shot design while a target is in the air.

The mass-produced, low-cost Liberator pistol of World War II, which was manufactured and distributed by U. S. forces to Allied Resistance forces and Guerrilla fighters as an assassination pistol, is the most common example of a mass-produced single-shot pistol.

One such field modification was made to Kennedy's PT-109 which was equipped with a single-shot Army M3 37mm anti-tank gun that her crew had commandeered ; they removed the wheels and lashed it to 2x8 timbers placed on the bow only one night before she was lost.

A falling-block action ( also known as a sliding-block action ) is a single-shot firearm action in which a solid metal breechblock slides vertically in grooves cut into the breech of the weapon and actuated by a lever.

Many of the videos also use long or single-shot takes, which Salons Matt Zoller Seitz claims " restore a sense of wonder to the musical number by letting the performers ' humanity shine through and allowing them to do their thing with a minimum of filmmaking interference ".

In 1885, Winchester entered the single-shot market with the Model 1885 rifle, which John Browning had designed in 1878 ( the beginning of the fruitful 20-year Winchester-Browning collaboration ).

Some 4 × 5 inch films are available in single-shot, pre-loaded, disposable envelopes which can be conveniently loaded into a special film holder in daylight.

As a general rule, they are single-shot flintlock or percussion black powder pistols which fire a lead musket ball.

Some commercial and custom revolvers and single-shot pistols ( such as the Ruger Blackhawk, T / C Contender and others ) employ high-pressure loads that are dangerous in the Single Action Army and other vintage arms chambered for the 45 Colt cartridge, especially 19th-century " pre-smokeless " revolvers which should be fired ( if at all ) only with black powder or light smokeless loads.

After Sparrow divulged the location, Barbossa and the crew mutinied and marooned Sparrow on a tiny island, with only a single-shot pistol with which to commit suicide.

Funding for the M320 grenade launcher, which is a single-shot under-barrel grenade launcher similar to the M203 that was originally intended for the XM8, was approved.

The Martini-Henry was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British Army, combining the dropping-block action first developed by Henry O. Peabody ( in his Peabody rifle ) and improved by the Swiss designer Friedrich von Martini, whose work in bringing the cocking and striker mechanism all within the receiver greatly improved the operation of the rifle, which new iteration was combined with the polygonal barrel rifling designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry.

The RPO-A is a single-shot, self-contained tube shaped launcher which operates much like some RPG and LAW rocket launchers.

These waveforms can be either repetitive or single-shot ( which requires an internal or external trigger source ).

The most common type of flare gun is a Very ( sometimes spelled Verey ) which was named after Edward Wilson Very ( 1847 – 1910 ), an American naval officer who developed and popularized a single-shot breech-loading snub-nosed pistol that fired flares ( Very flares ).

In such locations, distress flares are more commonly fired from single-shot tube devices which are then disposed of after use.

Guns used were the same as the locals ', which included the ' jift ', a single, or double-barrelled shotgun, the ' yunani ' and ' osmanli ' single-shot muskets, various rifles and Mauser pistols.

The Unlimited class comes very close to living up to its name -- just about any single-shot rifle qualifies, up to and including " rail guns ", which are rifle barrels and mechanisms built into a machine, or return-to-battery rest.

The weapon used a slide, much like an automatic pistol and fired from a closed breech, which added to its accuracy in single-shot mode.

In contrast, the local warlord's troops were armed only with bolt-action rifles, many of which were single-shot rifles so that their firepower was far less dense than what the Chinese Red Army was able to deploy.

it's a single-shot bolt-action with an automatic safety -- i.e., the safety goes on every time the bolt is lifted and the gun cocked for the next shot.

The American firearms and ammunition manufacturers through diligent research and technical development have replaced the muzzle loader and slow-firing single-shot arms with modern fast firing auto-loaders, extremely accurate bolt, lever, and slide action firearms.

Although a longbow achieves comparable accuracy and faster shooting rate than an average crossbow, crossbows release more kinetic energy and can be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow takes years of strength training to overcome the draw strength of the longbow, as well as years of practice needed to use it with skill.

The history of firearms began with single-shot designs, and many centuries passed before multi-shot designs became commonplace.

After the advent of high-powered repeating rifles, single-shot rifles were primarily used for target shooting matches, with the first official match shooting event, opening at Creedmoor, Long Island in 1872.

From about 1872 until the U. S. entry into World War I ( 1917 ), target shooting with single-shot rifles was nearly as popular in America as golf is today.

Perhaps the most common type of single-shot action, usually found in shotguns, small pistols, and black-powder " elephant " guns, a break action connects the barrel assembly to the breechblock with a hinge.

Although bolt actions are usually associated with fixed or detachable box magazines, in fact the first general-issue military breechloader was a single-shot bolt action: the paper-cartridge Prussian Needle Gun of 1841.

Many other manufacturers make single-shot pistols, most based on the bolt action rifle, with barrels generally ranging from 10 to 15 inches ( 25 to 38 cm ).

Ruger No. 1 single-shot rifle with custom. 243 barrel

The popularity of Cowboy action shooting has also had an impact on the availability of single-shot rifles, with many replicas of the old black powder rifles, particularly the Sharps, now being available.

It is usually inappropriate to attempt to capture a subject that moves with anything but a single-shot system.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 78, Russian troops armed with mostly Berdan single-shot rifles engaged Turks with Winchester repeating rifles and suffered heavy casualties.

Ruger No. 1 single-shot falling-block rifle with action open

Although bolt actions are usually associated with fixed or detachable box magazines, in fact the first general-issue military breechloader was a single-shot bolt action: the paper-cartridge Prussian Needle Gun of 1841.

A gunman on an open field armed with only a single-shot weapon was no match for a charging knight on a horseback ; however, from behind a castle wall, or from within the enclosure of the wagenburg, massed and disciplined gunmen could use the handgun to its greatest potential.

In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under ( a custom 13-pound, single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch barrel ), along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

The original Deringer pistol was a single-shot muzzleloading pistol ; with the advent of cartridge firearms, pistols began to be produced in the modern form still known as a derringer.