12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun

J. Stevens and Company Side by Side Shotgun (Circa 1878) exposed hammers and designed to fire Black Powder shotgun shells - 12 Gauge

Charles Parker 1878 Side by Side Shotgun - 12 Gauge. The Parker Gun Company was absorbed into Remington in 1934.

1960s Era Commercial Stevens hammerless side by side shotgun - 12 Gauge.

L.C. Smith Cased hardened hammerless side by side Field shotgun - 12 Gauge.

Modern Baikal Commercial hammerless side by side shotgun - 12 Gauge. Baikal is a Russian manufacturer and a version of this budget shotgun is known as the Remington Spartan.

Stoeger/IGA Coach imported side by side shotgun - 12 Gauge

Colt Model 1878 reproduction - 12 Gauge

Savage/Stevens 311A Shotgun - 12 Gauge

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Remington SPR210 Shotgun - 12 Gauge

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Remington SPR210 Shotgun Hammerless Coach Gun - 12 Gauge

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Remington SPR220 Shotgun - 12 Gauge

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Remington SPR220 Shotgun Exposed hammer Cowboy Action Gun - 12 Gauge

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The vast majority of shotguns seen in films and television are 12 gauge shotguns. Despite the existence of other gauges like 410, 16, 20, and 28 as well as the older 10 gauge and 8 gauge punt guns (and others), the shotguns most likely to be seen in a film would be the ubiquitous 12 gauge.

There are many instances of 12 Gauge Double Barreled shotguns in films, television, and video games. However it is difficult to determine the exact make and model of gun since the distinctive features are hard to make out, even in close up. However, it is possible to ID the guns eventually if enough of their details are clearly visible in a film. Several things make this possible a)The Wooden foregrips are distinctive as is the factory checkering, b)The lever that removes the foregrip is distinctive, c)The buttstock is distinctive as well as the shape as seen from the side profile. More and more of these 'mystery' shotguns will be IDd as time goes on. :)

Please check the talk page for additional variants of the 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun not shown on the main page.

Side by Side Shotgun

The 12 gauge side by side shotgun is the iconic hunting or 'country' shotgun. From Jed Clampett of "The Beverly Hillbillies" to Frank Castle in The Punisher, the side by side shotgun has been the staple of the hunter or sportsman. The Black powder versions are iconic weapons of the Old West and percussion cap or muzzle loader shotguns are symbols of the Pioneer expansion westward throughout the 1800s. As of the late 1890s, double barreled shotguns were built to withstand the higher pressures of the modern smokeless powder shells.

This section is for all Side by Side shotguns of legal length (i.e. 18" to 28" (or longer)

Film

• Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson in The Quiet Earth (1985)

• Rebels in Rebellion (2011)

• Anthony Hopkins as Colonel Ludlow in Legends of the Fall (1994)

• Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen in Out of Africa (1986)

• The Godfather (1972)

• The Chase (1966)

• Stagecoach guard in Little Big Man (1970)

• Robert Webber as Philippe Douvier in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

• Grandpa in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

• Fernando Rey as Charnier French Connection II (1975)

• Scotland, PA. (2001)

• Forrest Tucker as Lawrence Murphy in Chisum (1970)

• Candice Bergen as Miss Jones in Bite The Bullet (1975)

• Paul Fix as Sherrif Watson in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

• Jack Elam as Old Man Phillips in Rio Lobo (1970)

• Hard Rain (1998)

• Maniac (1980)

• Exterminators in Zardoz (1974)

• Lawmen and posse members in The Green Mile (1999)

• Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner in Straw Dogs (1971)

• How the West Was Won (1962)

• Yaphet Kotto as Richard 'Dickie' Coombes in Brubaker (1980)

• Drug smuggler in Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

• The Seven-Ups (1973)

• Lone Star (1996)

• Tim O'Kelly as Bobby Thompson in Targets 1968

• Martin Balsam as Henry Mendez in Hombre (1967)

• Gangmember in Blood In, Blood Out (1993)

• Dean Martin as Dude in Rio Bravo (1959)

• In the Heat of the Night (1967)

• Desperation (2006)

• Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus in Zombieland (2009)

• Emma Stone as Wichita in Zombieland (2009)

• Theater guard (Tim McIntire) in A Boy and His Dog (1975)

• Prime Cut (1972)

• Luke Askew as Boss Paul in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

• William Devane as Major Charles Rane in Rolling Thunder (1977)

• Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008) - numerous characters.

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

• Strother Martin as Rufus Clemens in Hannie Caulder (1971)

• The Sugarland Express (1974)

• Silverado (1985)

• Vigilante in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

• Cary Grant as John Robie in To Catch a Thief (1955)

• Michael Caine as Jack Carter in Get Carter (1971)

• Al Lettieri as Santiago in McQ (1974)

• Tom Horn (1980)

• Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

• Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the second and third installments of the Evil Dead trilogy

• Richard S. Castellano as Peter Clemenza, Angelo Ifanti as Fabrizio, and Franco Citti as Calo in The Godfather

• Papillon

• Island of Terror

• No Blade Of Grass (1970)

• John Wayne as Jake McCandles in Big Jake (1971)

• Richard Boone as John Fain in Big Jake (1971)

• Bruce Cabot as Sam in Big Jake (1971)

• Christopher Mitchum as Michael McCandles in Big Jake (1971)

• Shooter and Moreno in Training Day

• Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner in Straw Dogs

• One of the shark hunters in Jaws

• Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer in The Yakuza (1975)

• Gloria Irizarry as Donna Maria Tapia in Bad Boys II

• John Kani as Samuel in The Ghost and the Darkness

• Thomas Jane as Frank Castle used two in The Punisher (the first one is a long barreled hunting version and is most likely as Savage/Stevens 311H Model Shotgun. The second one is a sawed off shotgun of undetermined make and model).

• Roger Moore as James Bond and Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax in Moonraker

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity (2002) (in the farm's scene)

• Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell in The Mummy Returns

• Used as a booby trap in The Way of the Gun (IGA Coach Gun - 12ga)

• Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson in Independence Day

• Magda Szubanski as Brozzie Drewitt in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

• Town Sheriff at bar fight in Shanghai Noon

• Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood

• Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

• Billy Burke as Charlie Swan in Twilight

• Steve Lemme as Jimmy in The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

• Lady Gangster (1942)

• Prison Guard in Each Dawn I Die (1939)

• Eileen Brennan as The Cat Lady in Jeepers Creepers

• Danila's drunkard-neighbour in Brother

• Carrie Snodgress as Ina and Kerr Smith as Sean in The Forsaken.

• Donald Sutherland as Liam Devlin in The Eagle Has Landed

• Tim O'Kelly as Bobby Thompson in Targets (1968)

• Sid Cassel as Farmer in 20 Million Miles to Earth

• Stephen King as Jordy Verrill in Creepshow

• Vampire hunters in The Monster Squad

• Michael Madsen as Blood in Beyond the Law (1992)

Television

• King Solomon's Mines (2004)

• Survivors (2008 - 2009)

• Jorge Cervera Jr. as Bandito in Star Trek: The Next Generation (episode: "A Fistful of Datas")

• Reilly: Ace of Spies (1984)

• Geoffrey Lewis as Eli in Rough Riders (1997)

• The Stand (1994)

• Brigada

• The A-Team (1983-1987)

• Sanctuary (2008 - ?)

• Harper's Island (2009)

• Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996-????)

Anime

• The Skull Man

• Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey - Outside Legend

Animation

• Atlantis, The Lost Empire

Video Games

• Timesplitters

• Timesplitters: Future Perfect

• Evil Dead: a Fistful of Boomstick

• Evil Dead: Regeneration

• Max Payne

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Augmented Edition only)

• Fallout Tactics (Beretta 470 Silver Hawk)

• Call of Duty: World at War, seen late in the game during the Russian Campaign. It is a hammerless model of unknown make,

• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

• Red Dead Redemption, seen as a full-sized Colt 1878 Shotgun. Dubbed "Double-Barreled Shotgun".

• Call of Juarez, based off a Colt 1878 double-barreled shotgun. Dubbed "Double Barreled Shotgun".

• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, based off a Colt 1878 shotgun. Dubbed "Shotgun", it is used frequently by enemies.

• The Godfather

• Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (As "double-barrel coach gun")

• Zombie Panic Source

Short barreled Side by Side Shotgun (Sawed Off)

Remington Spartan Sawed Off shotgun - 12 gauge

This is the screen used Zabala short barreled shotgun used by Denzel Washington in the film Man on Fire, very similar to Tony's lupara on The Sopranos.

Baikal - 12 gauge.

This is the actual screen used Spanish Zabala Shotgun held and used by The Skull (Geno Silva) in Scarface - 12 gauge.

Though grammatically it is more correct to say "Sawn off", the standard vernacular is "Sawed Off shotgun". This section if for any short barreled shotgun that has been modified by sawing off the barrels to a short length (either by user or factory) and has a factory pistol grip or a sawed off buttstock.

This section is for all sawed off Side by Side shotguns

Film

• Mercedes Ruehl as Connie Russo in Married to the Mob (1988)

• Slayers in Vampires (1998)

• James Caan as Mississippi in El Dorado (1967)

• Kevin Costner as Michael J. "Jay" Cochran in Revenge (1990)

• Edward Bunker as the night watchman in Miracle Mile

• Bill Hickman as Bo in The Seven-Ups (1973)

• Murderous redneck in Survival of the Dead (2010)

• Motorcycle men in Inception (2010)

• Hit man in Edge of Darkness (2010) (Sawn Off)

• Set up as a booby trap in Brannigan (1975)

• Mel Gibson in the Mad Max series of movies (Usually Sawn Off)

• Sergei Bodrov as Danila Bagrov in Brother (Brat) (Sawn Off)

• Tom Bell as Jack "The Hat" McVitie in The Krays (Sawn Off)

• Geno Silva as The Skull in Scarface (Zabala Hermanos S.A. Shotgun)

• Bruce Willis as Jack Mosley in 16 Blocks

• Tim Parati as Andy in Cabin Fever (2002) (Sawn off)

• Dennis Dun as Wang Chi in Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

• Brian Thompson as the Night Slasher in Cobra (1986)

• Denzel Washington as Creasy in Man on Fire (2004) (Sawn off)

• Hang on wall in hidden panel in Wild Wild West (1999) (See Rossi Overland shotgun)

• Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi in Desperado (1995) (See Rossi Overland shotgun)

• Richard Grieco as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in Mobsters (1991) (See Rossi Overland shotgun)

• Sean Connery as Malone in The Untouchables (1987) (See Rossi Overland shotgun)

• El Huron thug in Crank: High Voltage

• Luke Ford as Darren Cody in Animal Kingdom (2010) (Sawn off)

Television

• CSI: NY (with and without sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Many characters on Deadwood (See Rossi Overland shotgun)

• James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos (Zapala)

• Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester in Supernatural (Baikal)

• Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester in Supernatural (Baikal)

• Bank robbers and Rowan Atkinson in The Thin Blue Line

• Peter Shinkoda as Dai in Falling Skies

Video Games

• Bioshock 2 (can be upgraded with cylinder and stronger barrel)

• Modern Warfare 2 (Ranger), based off a Sears Ranger.

• Timesplitters 2 (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Americas 10 Most Wanted (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Call of Juarez, dubbed the "Sawed-off Double Barreled Shotgun", is frequently used by the Juarez gang.

• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, a sawed off Colt 1878 Shotgun. Dubbed "Sawed-off Shotgun"

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Doom series (Sawn-off, as "double barrel shotgun" or "super shotgun")

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Sawed-Off)

• Combat Arms (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (sawed-off)

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (as the "Twin Barrel", with various upgrades)

• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (Sawed-off version of break-open type, referred to by its Italian name as the "Lupara")

• Far Cry 2 (sawed-off rabbit-ear)

• Dark Sector (Sawed-off rabbit-ear, as "Spectre")

• Counter-Strike Online (Sawed-off stock, as the "Twin Silver Wolves")

• Team Fortress 2 (Sawed-off barrels, as "The Force-A-Nature")

• Call of Duty: World at War, a sawed off variant of the above mentioned full-size hammerless shotgun.

• Red Dead Redemption, hammerless shotgun of unknown make. Dubbed "Sawed-off Shotgun".

• Max Payne (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Manhunt (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Manhunt 2 (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• Condemned 2: BloodShot (with sawed-off barrels and stock)

• The Suffering: Ties That Bind

• Clive Barker's Undying

Over and Under Shotgun (O/U)

Browning 5.25 O/U - 12 gauge.

Film

• Ed Lauter as General Gordon in French Connection II (1975)

• Prime Cut (1972)

• Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

• Dolph Lundgren as Nick Cherenko in The Mechanik (Full-Size Hunting Baikal)

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Kruger in Eraser (Sawed-off)

• Chuck Norris as Cliff Garret/Danny Grogan in "The Hitman" (Sawed off)

• Henry Silva as Billy Score in Sharky's Machine (Sawed off)

• Gyro Captain's Son in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

• Anne Archer as Cathy Ryan in Patriot Games

• Club Fever Bodyguard in Collateral (Sawn-off)

• Used by a slaver in the film Doomsday (Sawn-off).

• Samuel L. Jackson as Octcopuss in The Spirit (Sawed-off).

• Joe Pantoliano as White in Downtown (sawed-off}

Television

• Dennis Haysbert as Sgt. Major Jonas Blane in The Unit (Stevens 512 Gold Wing O/U Shotgun)

• Roy Dotrice as Charles Jourdan in The A-Team (Browning O/U)

• Sergei Bezrukov as Alexander Belov in Brigada (TOZ-34)

• Harper's Island (2009)

• Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in Criminal Minds

Anime

• Case Closed

• High School of the Dead

Video Games

• Condemned: Criminal Origins (Sawed off version with shorter barrels and an unusually short buttstock)

• Call of Duty: Black Ops (Referred to as "Olympia")

• Operation Flashpoint (Referred to in-game as the 'Kozlice', is actually a CZ-584)

• Fallout: New Vegas

• Condemned: Criminal Origins (sawed-off)

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (TOZ-34, the weapon is in the original game's files but inaccessible, but available in the stand-alone expansion)

• Resident Evil 0 as the Hunting Gun

• Alan Wake

• Serious Sam Double D

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (seen on a wall)