Description
Manufactured by the esteemed Suhl, Germany, maker J.P. Sauer & Sohn, this combination gun was built to exacting standards
Detail
M30 broke like a top-lever shotgun and employed a Greener-style crossbolt. It had two triggers. To fire the rifle barrel, one pushed forward on a tang-mounted selector switch. This automatically raised a 100-meter rear sight notch. The forward single-set trigger fired the rifle barrel and the rear trigger the left shotgun barrel, which was intended primarily for Brenneke slugs. By returning the selector to its rearward position, the right shotgun barrel could then be discharged with the front trigger.
A safety switch was mounted on the left side of the stock behind the receiver.
As well as the Sauer & Sohn markings and proofmarks, the drilling had Luftwaffe eagle insignias stamped in the stock and on the barrels.
Originally, some 4,000 M30s were ordered from Sauer & Sohn, but apparently only 2,456 were actually delivered in 1941 and 1942.
Two upper 12-ga. shotgun barrels and a lower barrel chambered for the long, tapered 9.3x74 mm R sporting cartridge.
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