![]() More bizarrely, there are some rare examples of breechloading blunderbusses, which went about as well as one would expect. Instead, it served the twin purposes of increasing the spread of shot and making pouring powder and shot into the weapon easier.īlunderbusses could have most types of period lockwork, and snaplock, matchlock, wheellock, flintlock and even caplock examples exist. Contrary to popular belief and depictions in cartoons, the flared muzzle is not to allow the weapon to be filled with shrapnel and junk instead of shot doing so would damage the weapon. ![]() ![]() The Blunderbuss (from Dutch donderbus roughly translated as "thunder pipe") was an early shotgun, a muzzle-loading firearm with a large caliber, short barrel (compared to a period long rifle), flared at the muzzle.
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