That Model 70 was unusable except as a single-shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Used Gun Seeks Loving Home] Reference

"You mean you're going in there with a twenty-two single-shot?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

As a result, only revolvers or single-shot handguns can be registered.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Next for D.C.'s Gun Laws] Reference

One of the young men grabbed an old single-shot rifle but didn't fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

Kimberly has a rifle too, it's called a cricket; it's a single-shot .22.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Father of Pennsylvania School Shooting Victim Hold Press Conference - March 8, 2001] Reference

The trouble with that course of action is that it's a single-shot pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colin Powell Endorses Obama] Reference

My father started me on a single-shot Sears bolt-action .22 when I was nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bourjaily on Starter Guns] Reference

My bolt-action varminters are used almost exclusively as single-shot rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A big game rifle should have 1) a detachable magazine 2) a hinged floor plate with spring] Reference

He would never have given such a command to soldiers with single-shot rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

Earlier, we heard some single-shot fire, and then what sounded like a grenade.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2006] Reference

But if you come from out planet, you pay a single-shot tax on each transaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rolling Stones]

"Fair didn't stop their cavalry from usin" their repeaters against single-shot muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

He clicked the selector switch to single-shot and stepped up to the first dead American.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

But still and all, the single-shot rifle was an outmoded tool even during the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Substandard Issue Update: In response to your comments on military small arms] Reference

In 1966, he literally raised the dead by bringing out a single-shot falling-block rifle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 50 Best Guns of All Time] Reference

Even against a firing line of single-shot Springfields, both choices would have been evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

Their women ride and shoot as well as the men, and that's with hand-forged, single-shot weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soarer's Choice]

The bears tend to keep their distance, but Nelson carries a single-shot .338 rifle, just in case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone At Last. . .] Reference

I was sitting still, leaning up against a tree with my single-shot Winchester model 37 in 20 gauge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sit Down, Shut Up] Reference

Not long afterward I took the single-shot bolt-action Winchester .22 out in the woods after squirrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will]

She got down on her knees and put the rifle to her shoulder, setting the selector lever to single-shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Total War]

She retrieved it, and he showed her the safety, the single-shot setting, and the automatic-weapon setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory of Fire]

Instead, admakers went with the clowns and filmed the story as a single-shot, frozen-motion movie for the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philips chooses Web for epic advertisement] Reference

Hoss Kucinski would always carry two or three LAWS, the disposable, single-shot light antitank weapons, with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

Will take the Colt 1860 or any other Army type percussion revolver, or the 1842 or 1836 Model single-shot pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"] Reference

The King's warriors move on camelback and carry 19th Century weapons, essentially cumbersome single-shot long rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons of "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"] Reference

He clicked the selector switch off SAFE to semi and full — single-shot and fully automatic — then back to safe again.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

The needle guns must be the Prussian Dreyse single-shot breech-loaders of 1840, which were the first bolt-action military weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash For Freedom]

STEERS: Well, he shot him point-blank with a 41-caliber Deringer, a single-shot pistol, probably within two feet of the back of his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln] Reference