Single shot sled...required?

[Mstrty]

In building a single shot pistol is a sled required to fill the mag bay? Or would capping off the mag well suffice. If one had a 1911 magwell that was sealed shut would a sled be necessary. It would of course require tools to remove any mag well block. This example is not 1911 specific. just using it as an example.

Question:
If the magwell was sealed off and the 6+" barrel had no feedramp and the sled locked open with each round fired would that defined as a single shot?

[adamsreeftank]

If you could open the slide and drop additional rounds in there I think you might have a problem. Theoretically, you could hold the gun upside down while you fire it and it could gravity feed. I think you would be safer with the sled/block in the magwell.

[Mstrty]

If you could open the slide and drop additional rounds in there I think you might have a problem. Theoretically, you could hold the gun upside down while you fire it and it could gravity feed. I think you would be safer with the sled/block in the magwell.

I think that reaching. Its as likely as a round getting racked out of a neighboring gun and landing in my open breach.

Additional question:
Would a gun that has a feeding device that requires manually operating the feeding device for each round to be chambered be defined as a single shot? Example a 1911 that locks open with each round fired, requiring the shooter to drop the slide to chamber the next round?

[Dead*Reckoned]

I've been wondering the same thing, Is a single action (which is what you are describing) the same as a single shot? The main difference i see is that you have to reload the gun after every shot fired in a single shot weapon, whereas a single action you just have to manually cock it.

[ke6guj]

Additional question:
Would a gun that has a feeding device that requires manually operating the feeding device for each round to be chambered be defined as a single shot? Example a 1911 that locks open with each round fired, requiring the shooter to drop the slide to chamber the next round?

that could be called a manually-operated repeater, not a single-shot handgun. Would you call a mag-fed bolt-action pistol a single-shot pistol?

I've been wondering the same thing, Is a single action (which is what you are describing) the same as a single shot? The main difference i see is that you have to reload the gun after every shot fired in a single shot weapon, whereas a single action you just have to manually cock it.

neither single-action and single-shot are defined in the PC, so we have to go with common definitions.