Double-barreled shotgun

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Double-barreled gun, double-barreled gun - a type of gun with two barrels.Invented by the Frenchman Leclerc (La Claire)in 1738. Double-barreled guns are used almost exclusively as hunting, in the army they have not found use. There are two main options for the arrangement of trunks: horizontally, when the trunks are located next to each other, and vertically, when one trunk is located above the other (bokflint). According to the type of trigger mechanism, double-barreled guns are divided into designs with two triggers (one for each barrel) and one trigger (shots occur sequentially). The horizontal arrangement of trunks they are not parallel, but converge so that when firing to put the fraction in one point at a distance of 30-35 m. Often in hunting rifles, to empower the guns, the barrels are made of different choke constriction (chokes), or the trunks vary in size — for example, one of the barrels rifled and the other smooth (so-called boxplot).