TotallynotJessicai dream about this every night đź’–
ArcaneSlimeHate to ruin it, but that’ll never leave a paw shaped hole (or set of holes as it were.) You’d have to use slugs of course, and the slugs aren’t going to tear cleanly through just about anything a wall or chest could be made of.
And that’s assuming they even fall in the actual right pattern, and that your shoulder and the gun can handle all 5 going off at once without exploding (though unless this thing has 5 triggers, it’s a switch situation and you won’t be able to anyway). Or if you do 5 separate shots, then if you’re good enough you could do it with any gun.
sensible reasoning all, but all i want to know is what goes in the center muzzle.
I’m guessing it’s a 12ga and 4 .410s, but it could be like an 8ga or 10ga and 4 12ga, kind of hard to tell from the pic. I’ll see if I can find any info online…
Turns out it was “liberated” from a museum at the end of WWII and sold at auction sometime around 5y ago. While I was unable to nail down all the calibers it’s a combination gun, meaning the smaller barrels are rifle barrels and the larger is a shotgun barrel. Never seen one with five barrels before but they’re still made, usually with three barrels.
If the info I found is to be believed it was on a Russian auction site and the calibers listed are:
The top 2 are listed as 9.1x52 R, the left side as 9.3x82 R, right side as 11x74 R. The center barrel is listed as 16 Gauge.
But I couldn’t find the Russian auction site. I did find apparently the tag on the site listed this guy as the maker in the 1890s/1900s.
Oberhammer, Peter of Munich
By Larry B. Schuknecht Below are two advertisements from the 1895 Der Deutsche Jäger. According to Eugène Heer’s book Der Neue Støckel Peter Oberhammer was born in Bruneck (Brunico), Trento in 1838. In 1856 he began serving an Apprenticeship in Innichen (San Candido), Trento. Starting in 1858 he was in Innsbruck, then Salzberg and on to…