Senriku

Senriku is the signature long gun used by Van Augur.

Appearance and Design


Senriku is a musket-style "rifle" (long gun) with a peculiar look that has absurd shooting ability well beyond a normal rifle's. Its wooden forestock extends roughly halfway under the barrel, which is very long, made of a yellowish-brown metal, and ends in a flaring, funnel-shaped muzzle like a blunderbuss (which does not seem to diminish its accuracy). Set upon the barrel is a double set of lensed crosshair scopes (the rear sight placed at the stock's forend and the front sight placed right before the muzzle, somehow functional despite the latter's flare). The gunstock is gold-plated on each side, proceeds smoothly from toe to trigger in a straight-grip style (no protruding grip, as with most rifles in the series), and has a similarly straight comb (no drop in front of it, though the anime shows the buttstock being set slightly lower than the forestock). Most distinguishing about the stock is its oversized, golden flintlock mechanism that includes a massive hammer to hold the flint, as well as (for some reason) a four-spoked wheel below the frizzen. The trigger and its guard are also gold, and the long buttstock has a maroon band wrapped around it, plus a small crosshaired lense set into its left side for decoration. The butt's curved end is covered with a golden butt plate.

Capabilities
Senriku is shown to grant tremendous firing range and accuracy, allowing Van Augur (with his apparently superhuman eyesight and/or sensing capabilities) to take shots with it over tremendous distances. In his debut scene, Augur was seen picking off several seagulls that were flying so far away from Jaya, his location, that the island itself could not be seen from the gulls' position.

Senriku can also be used effectively for shots at very close range and be fired in rapid succession.

In the anime, Augur was accurate and precise enough to shoot through his opposition's bullets and gun barrels, which easily destroyed both ammunition and firearms per shot. In the ninth movie, Augur was seen firing explosive rounds with this weapon during the attack on Drum Island.

Trivia

 * In its design (especially with its funnel-shaped muzzle like that of a blunderbuss), Senriku resembles the gun wielded by Adolphus, a superhuman rifleman in the 1988 adventure fantasy film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (based on the 1785 book by Rudolf Erich Raspe). Van Augur's character as a whole seems inspired by said character.

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