I think that this is just a double ballered rifle and not a shotgun.

It looks like someone amalgamated a common hunting rifle and a double barreled shotgun into... this, however I think the design is quite nice.

It's called an Elephant Gun...

Originally posted by AMERI-FREEDOM!:

It's called an Elephant Gun...

It is called an Elephant gun :)

Originally posted by Shirshimo | 20 Days till Bday:

Originally posted by AMERI-FREEDOM!:

It's called an Elephant Gun...

It is called an Elephant gun :)

that's what I said

Has noone in this comment chain red the decription of this item? noone?

is the item fair enough? lets tell valve

YEAS! :# new item SNIPER

IT IS COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :)

It should be more like a scout rifle, a more cod like close/mid range weapon with iron sights

its a rifle. with 2 barrels. its a thing already.

They're almost the same thing.
Just different ammo types.

So I guess no one cares about the, "Many people may not know about double barreled rifles and assume that The Poacher’s Pride is a double barreled shotgun. Well there is probably a reason most folks don’t know about double barreled rifles and that was price. Double barreled rifles cost about 10 to 50 times more than a double barreled shotgun so the few people who owned them were either wealthy or professional hunters. Back in the day before semiautomatic rifles, double barreled rifles were often preferred over bolt action rifles for two reasons: They could get a second shot quicker, if they were attacked by a dangerous animal, and that they were often built to fire bigger bullets. It was for this second reason that double barreled rifles were often called “Elephant Guns” as they could shoot down an elephant with a single shot," in the description?

Snipers are not typically made with 2 barrels, they have one for increased accuracy and to be able to use the scope accuratley. a shotgun is more suiting for this design. But in fact, how bout we make this a noe of a kind engie/ sniper weapon

At the turn of the 20th century, muzzleloading big bore guns for big game hunting were gradually replaced with breech loaders, bolt actions, and rolling block rifles among african hunters, with large calibres like 375. Holland and Holland being born, with some shooting 500. or even 700. Nitro rounds. These weapons, often called "Brush guns" were not Sniper rifles and were meant to be used to stop charging animals from a distance of maybe 30 feet or less.

The elephant guns in the double barrel configuration were beloved by many hunters then and now because they allowed two shots to be quickly discharged, meaning two chances to stop the elephant/lion/whatever. Bolt rifles may have had more shots, but the first 2 shots were slower to fire than the first 2 from a double rifle, and they were marginally less reliable.

Most gamers have no idea what a double rifle is because they have appeared in like, 2 games since the beginning of time, wheras double barrel shotguns have been seen in about half of games ever made.

Holland and Holland, a well known maker of double guns

https://www.hollandandholland.com/gun-room/royal-double-rifle/

an example of a cartiridge you may find in a double rifle, this one is the 375. holland and holland, and it is the minimum calibre for hunting dangerous game in many African countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.375_H%26H_Magnum

And heres a bigger one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.700_Nitro_Express

So TL:DR, ITS NOT A FRICKEN SHOTGUN, its a beautiful, expensive, gun for a gentleman hunter, a gun for rich europeans to head into Africa and kill things that eat men for breakfast, A gun you should NOT ATTEMPT TO SHOOT unless you have a manly moustache.

They will also murder your shoulder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsTKFnThh6Q