Single-shot gun

Single shot weapon or single loaders are firearms without additional charging means ( magazine ) with one or more races that before each shot by introducing the cartridge into the cartridge chamber must be loaded by hand or a loading recess.

They differ from multi-loading weapons , in which the now empty cartridge case is removed and a new cartridge is inserted from the magazine into the barrel by a manual or automatic mechanism before each further shot.

Single-shot weapons include all muzzle-loading weapons , silhouette pistols , double shotguns , double rifles and combined weapons.

literature

• The weapons specialist book , Karl Heinz Martini, Journal Verlag Schwend GmbH, ISBN 3-935210-00-0