Notes: This is one of the best over-and-under shotguns one can by "off the rack," and is in real life quite expensive. The F3 features a fine European walnut stock and high-strength steel metalwork with no stamped steel or pressings, as well as hand finishing and fitting of the parts. The stock and receiver use a low profile to improve quick aiming and shooting. The stock is also uniquely ergonomically-shaped. The F3 uses a single trigger, with a barrel selector on the stock just behind the receiver; this selector also acts as a manual safety that blocks both the trigger and the hammer. (This means that the F3 cannot fire both barrels at once.) The trigger is adjustable for length of pull. The locking area is heavily built to withstand the 3-inch magnum loads it is designed to fire, and the barrel is also strengthened to handle even steel or tungsten shot. The F3 has automatic shell ejection when the gun is broken open. The entire shotgun is designed to be perfectly balanced, and the center of the F3 can be placed on a support without it falling off. The top barrel can have any one of several widths and heights of sighting ribs on it. Touches such as engraving of the side plates, left-handed stocks, finer grades of wood, and stocks adjustable for length are available upon request; Blaser will even make a custom stock for a shooter if they want it! The standard stock has a thick rubber recoil pad. The barrels have a standard Cylindrical choke, but when one buys an F3, they also get two free screw-in interchangeable chokes of their choice, and the F3 can take any Briley Spectrum interchangeable choke, whether steel or titanium (however, note that one cannot shoot steel shot through the titanium versions of Briley Spectrum chokes).

The F3, of course, comes in several models. The F3 Game has a front bead sight at the front of its sighting rib; three barrel lengths are available. The stock is a sporting-type stock with a pistol grip wrist and a Schnabel tip on the fore-end. It is available in grades ranging from Standard to Imperial. The F3 Competition Sporting is very similar, but generally uses longer barrels and is heavier. The Competition Sporting can also be equipped with Hi-Viz sights atop the sighting rib. The F3 Competition Trap is also quite similar, but uses a Monte Carlo-type stock with a somewhat different pistol grip wrist shape, a rounded fore-end with gripping recesses on either side. (For game purposes, it is identical to the Competition Sporting.) The American Skeet and American Trap are similar to the Game and Competition Trap respectively, but the barrels are modular, so that different lengths may be used, or even just the top barrel without the bottom (some competitions require that the shooter use a single-barrel shotgun). With both barrels, they are identical to the Game and Competition Trap respectively for game purposes, but figures are given below for use when only the upper barrel is present. (Both barrels must be the same length for them to fit together properly.) The stocks are also shaped somewhat differently, to appeal more to American tastes.

In addition to the versions listed above, the F3 comes in grades from Standard to Imperial. There are also several special editions, including the Attaché and Baronesse, as well as several hand-engraved versions. In real-world prices, the cost of some of these versions of the F3 could probably buy one a decent car! However, for game purposes, they are identical to their standard cousins.

Twilight 2000 Notes: The F3 does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Notes: This is an over-and under shotgun built by Huglu of Turkey in collaboration with CZ of the Czech Republic (and it’s US branch, CZ-USA). It is a simple, easy to operate and maintain weapon, with a stock of Turkish walnut, a rounded semi-pistol grip wrist, semi-Schnabel fore-end, and a breech block finished in case-hardened color with very simple engraving (primarily with the name of the weapon and the manufacturers’ symbols). It is designed primarily for skeet and sporting clay shooting, but is quite useful for fowling and other hunting. The action has no automatic case ejectors, but instead has simple extractors. The Woodcock has a full set of interchangeable chokes (Cylinder, Improved Cylinder, Modified, Improved Modified, and Full). The trigger is single, but selective with a barrel selector. New barrel selector/safeties can be a bit stiff, but the trigger pull is crisp and even. The Woodcock has a ventilated sighting rib above the top barrel, and a ventilated cooling rib between the barrels. The fit and finish of the gun are excellent.

Twilight/Merc 2000 Notes: This shotgun does not exist in either timeline – in Twilight 2000, the weapon was simply never built due to the war, and in Merc 2000, the cooperation between the countries involved never took place.

Notes: EAA (European American Armory) is a company that sells a variety of imported firearms to the US and other countries. They do not actually make the firearms themselves, but act as a middleman for various European countries, particularly those in Eastern Europe. The Bounty Hunter is a version of the Russian IZH-43 double-barreled side-by-side shotgun, modified by American gunsmiths to either fire 20-Gauge shotgun ammunition, or, with a barrel insert, fire rifle rounds. Putting in the rifle barrel insert consists of removing the shotgun-barrel’s screw-in choke, adding a special bushing to make the barrels fire parallel (instead of the converging fire of the shotgun barrels), adding a rubber O-ring to secure the bushing, and then screwing on a cap to keep the whole assembly in place. The extractors for the chambers must be properly aligned when the inserts are used, or when the action is closed, it will not break open again unless the weapon is disassembled! The rifle barrel inserts add an inch to the barrel length.

Notes: This collaboration of European, Russian, and American weaponsmiths was built for some time in Russia before EAA (European American Armory) brought it to Western Europe and the US. One of the uses it got was as the shotgun used by Val Kilmer, an actor playing Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie Tombstone. The Bounty Hunter II is a "faux replica;" it is a weapon designed to look like an Old West double-barreled shotgun, but is not actually modeled after any particular Old West weapon. It purpose was Cowboy Action shooting, not to be used in a historical movie. As a result, it has no automatic ejectors, and it is chambered for a 2 3/4-inch shell instead of the huge magnums often used in modern shotguns. It has double triggers; one or both barrels may be fired at once. To comply with modern regulations, it does have a safety, something not generally present on real weapons of the period.