German Combination Gun Names, Compared
Flinte - Shotgun
Büchse - Rifle
Bock - Over&Under
Büchsflinte
- One shotgun barrel beside one rifle barrel. Or, in English: a Cape Gun
Bock-Büchsflinte - One shotgun barrel over
one rifle barrel
Drilling - From "Drei"
the German word for three. Normally two side-by-side shotgun barrels over one
rifle barrel
Doppelbüchs-Drilling
- (Double Rifle Drilling) Two side-by-side rifle barrels over one shotgun barrel
Bock-Doppleflinte mit
seitlichem Kleinkaliberlauf - Over & Under shotgun with small-caliber rifle
barrel beside.
Büchs-Drilling
- Three rifle barrels.
Schienendrilling - Two
shotgun barrels with a small-calibre rifle barrel built into the rib.
Vierling (1) - From the
German word for four---Vier.
Vierling (2)
Vierling (3)
Or, in Italian: Quattrocanne, a four-barreled shotgun.
Fünfling
--- Virtually any combination of five barrels on a single action.
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