Interesting thread. Ive sometimes wondered about mostly fictional or semi-non-fictional movies and shows displaying Eastern European hunters, Communist Generals or Politicians hunting in drives with side by side shotguns. Shooting boar or deer.

I've wondered whether they used slugs or buckshot or both?

Any of our esteemed German colleagues or others, know if buckshot is commonly used in many Eastern European countries? Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia now Czech and Slovakia, the Yugoslavia modern or old countries etc? The Soviet countries, old and new?