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Hi Mad
Well, you're pretty much right on. I've never tried shooting a single round ball. I figured these were made for a variety of shot. So I never had the interest in trying.
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Myths of the Blunderbuss
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Well, you're pretty much right on. I've never tried shooting a single round ball. I figured these were made for a variety of shot. So I never had the interest in trying.
Rick
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Hi Bill
I'm not good at I.D.ing wood. Is madrone similar/same as what;s called orangewood ?
Rick
Rick, I have never heard it called orangewood. It is an evergreen smooth-barked tree with thin, reddish-brown paper-like bark that peels and thick, waxy green leaves. It bears small white flowers that produce red-orange, inedible berries.
There is a somewhat rare relative, the Texas madrone, that grows in west Texas and on south into Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_menziesii
There is a somewhat rare relative, the Texas madrone, that grows in west Texas and on south into Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_menziesii
Blunderbuss shot pattern:
Here is that guy who hunts turkey with Blunderbuss:
Just happened on this older Youtube. Very interesting miquelet 'buss!
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If I’m reading that article right, there seems to be a major flaw in how these tests were conducted. The author concludes that the pattern is larger for a flared muzzle compared to a cylinder bore of the same length. He does not seem to consider the pattern for a shortened barrel, where the cylindrical portion is the same length as the cylindrical portion of a blunderbuss barrel (for example, a 20 inch flared barrel may actually be the equivalent of a 17 inch non-flared barrel). So, we don’t really know if the expanded pattern is caused by the flare or by the effectively shorter length of the bore.
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Well... how do you all think this patterns?
It definitely has a nice flare! Barrel is probably only 8" long... the rest is flare.
William
It definitely has a nice flare! Barrel is probably only 8" long... the rest is flare.
William
Been years since I did a lot of reading,but I do believe I've read more then once a blunderbuss was a Navel weapon to repel boarders and a wide pattern at very short range makes a lot of sense for that, especially if you are at a good angle to side of ship,you could ventilate several fellows climbing over side,and the Marines way up high in the Masts could pick off the leftovers.
Those dogging the old blunderbuss sometime fail to see their strengths.
They were the first combat shotguns. The wide spread was a GOOD thing. When everyone had single shot weapons, throwing a cloud of shot helped ensure at least some lead got on target.
They were close range affairs. Their great popularity over so many decades and made in so many nations seems to indicate they did, in fact, serve a useful purpose, and that wasn’t bird hunting.
They were the first combat shotguns. The wide spread was a GOOD thing. When everyone had single shot weapons, throwing a cloud of shot helped ensure at least some lead got on target.
They were close range affairs. Their great popularity over so many decades and made in so many nations seems to indicate they did, in fact, serve a useful purpose, and that wasn’t bird hunting.
