Krieghoff Neptun

About the Krieghoff Neptun

The Krieghoff Neptun is a German drilling, a three-barrel break-action combination gun pairing two side-by-side smoothbore shotgun barrels (commonly 16 or 20 gauge) over a single rifled barrel, here chambered for the 7x65mm R cartridge. Introduced in 1953 after Krieghoff relocated to Ulm, the Neptun is the firm's hand-detachable sidelock drilling, distinguished from the boxlock Trumpf by its sideplate locks fitted with coil springs and a safety catch bar for a clean trigger pull. Built around Boehler Antinit barrel steel with double barrel-hook locking reinforced by a Greener crossbolt, an automatic folding rear sight and provision for a pivot-mount scope, it is a classic Suhl-pattern hunting rifle-and-shotgun intended for mixed European driven and stalking game.

Krieghoff traces its drilling lineage to the firm's 1886 founding as Sempert & Krieghoff in Suhl. The Neptun, named for the Roman sea-god, arrived in 1953 as part of the company's post-war revival in Ulm alongside the Trumpf, Teck and Ulm models, carrying the classic Suhl sidelock tradition into the modern era.

Krieghoff Neptun specifications

The Neptun is the sidelock member of Krieghoff's post-war drilling family (Trumpf boxlock, Neptun sidelock). The top-tier Neptun-Primus adds finely engraved, partly gilded hand-detachable locks. Caliber pairings were made to order; a common configuration is 7x65R rifle with 16/70 or 20/76 shotgun barrels, and a 22-calibre insert barrel was sometimes fitted inside the right shotgun tube.