“… I quickly loaded my shotgun, with my ramrod instead of lead. Then I approached the partridges and shot in the very moment they started to fly. Only a few steps away my ramrod came down, larded and graced with seven partridges.”
SAUER 404 Münchhausen –
From the realm of imagination
A Sauer 404 Stutzen designed for the occasion of the 300th birthday of world famous Baron Muenchhausen. His tall tales are re-told with Bulino engravings by engraver Hendrik Frühauf and garnished with Rococo arabesques and 19th-century-style light English ornamentation Experience the adventures of the Baron in a totally different way …
SAUER 404 Münchhausen
“I immediately loaded with powder and added some cherry kernels. With that I shot after the stag and I hit him exactly in the middle of his antlers. One or two years later I saw a noble stag with a beautiful cherry tree, more than three feet high, between his antlers.”
“As dangerous as these wild boars are, the tuskers are much more dangerous.
I hid behind an oak tree, and when the furious animal tried to hit me with its full force, it instead hit the tree. ‘Ho-ho!’ I thought, ‘I will get you soon now!’ I then took a stone with which I hammered so forcefully on its tusks that they became more and more bent until the wild boar could not escape and had to wait for my return from the nearby village in order to get him home alive.”
Text is slightly shortened and has been adapted from “Adventures and Travels of the Baron von Münchhausen” by Gottfried August Bürger. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart und Berlin 1900.