I tried looking it up, but all I could find was the name of the person who invented the Double Barrel Shotgun. I want to know the invention dates of the two.
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November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I do know the shotgun came first. Even in early colonial times the Blunderbuss was an early form of the shotgun as a handful of stones could be used as ammo.
As to who invented the shotgun, I’m afraid that is lost to History.
This may help you narrow down the dates to somewhere close:
http://armscollectors.com/gunhistorydates.htm
November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
im probably wrong but i don’t think there is a double barrel rifle. what looks like another barrel on a rifle is actualy where the ammo is stored like in a lever action 30/30 see look the bottom one is not a barrel http://www.jcdevine.com/images/auction_2901/08-119-052.jpg
November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
The shotgun. Rifling is a more recent idea, originally developed simply to have grooves to limit the problems of powder fouling and only later found to be useful for greater accuracy. This really dates to the time before our current concepts of shotguns and rifles being remarkably different, when a gun was often used to shoot either shot or ball.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
when you get to items as old as firearms, dates are going to be hard to come by.
Luckily I can tell you that multiple barrel firearms were around before rifling, meaning the double barrel shotgun wins by default
November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
The double barrel shotgun came first. Double rifles were early Nineteen-hundreds or even early Eighteen-hundreds. Double rifles are very specialized and considered dangerous game rifles. They are two separate rifles mated together to function independently. The idea is that if one rifle fails for whatever reason the other should not because it is a separate rifle. This can be life-saving if a rogue elephant is charging and you have a misfire. The other barrel should still work so long as it is loaded.
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November 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
It was the double barrel shotgun. Double barreled shotguns have been serving humanity before the rifle even existed. Double barreled shotguns reigned even in the age of muskets.
That, and rifles are rarely double-barreled.