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The "Foster slug", invented by Karl M. Foster in 1931, and patented in 1947 (U.S. patent 2,414,863), is a type of shotgun slug designed to be fired through a smoothbore shotgun barrel, even though it commonly labeled as a "rifled" slug. A rifled slug is for smooth bores and a sabot slug is for rifled barrels. [9]
Elephant gun. Theodore Roosevelt with a Holland & Holland double rifle in .500/450 Nitro and bagged elephant. [1] An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or smoothbore, originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephant and other large game. Elephant guns were black powder muzzle-loaders at first, then black powder express ...
H&R Ultraslug Hunter. The H & R Ultraslug Hunter is a rifled, single shot deer shotgun made by H & R Firearms. It is accurate with saboted slugs up to 200 yards. It comes in 12 and 20 gauges and has a factory mounted scope base. This gun costs approximately US$250. Saboted slugs cost about US$15 for 5 shells. The Ultra slug barrel is a "Heavy ...
Shotgun. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, [1] or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.
2,624 ft/s (800 m/s) 30,671 ft⋅lbf (41,584 J) Four bore or 4 bore is a black powder caliber of the 19th century, used for the hunting of large and potentially dangerous game animals. The specifications place this caliber between the larger 2 bore and the smaller 6 bore rifles. This caliber was the quintessential elephant gun caliber of the ...
Survivor Rifle (Single-shot): available in .223 Winchester and .308 Winchester. Available in either a blued finish or an electroless nickel finish with a polymer stock has a thumbhole/pistol-grip design and a convenient storage compartment. Same stock as .410/45 Survivor Shotgun. Sportster (Single-shot): Rimfire design of Handi-Rifle.
Combination gun. A combination gun is a firearm that usually comprises at least one rifled barrel and one smoothbore barrel, that is typically used with shot or some type of shotgun slug. Most have been break-action guns, although there have been other designs as well. Combination guns using one rifled and one smoothbore barrel are commonly ...
The Remington Model 58, also known as the Sportsman 58, is a semi-automatic shotgun manufactured by Remington Arms in the mid-20th century. It was Remington's first gas operated shotgun and was marketed alongside the recoil operated Model 11-48. The Model 58 was manufactured in 12, 16, and 20 gauge from 1956 to 1963, until it was replaced by ...