Ardesa Blunderbuss

[arcticap]

These probably have never been imported into the U.S.
That's too bad because there aren't many affordable factory percussion blunderbuss type models available.
I did locate an older used Ardesa Blunderbuss overseas that's listed as 24 gauge (~.579), but it has a different trigger guard & stock.

There are 2 images to view, click on the little red box below the buttstock. It appears that the models pictured have different lock & hammer designs.

http://www.ardesa.com/avancarga/eng/pop_trabuco1.htm#

It sure looks like it would be fun to shoot! :hatsoff:

 

[Coot]

I have read two booklets on the blunderbuss & I think they only show flinters. I thought that the blunderbuss had gone out of favor by the early 1800s and that percussion guns were not common before the mid 1800s. It would seem that a percussion blunderbuss would have been very rare .

 

[wshipman]

According to their site the following import they're firearms:

TRADITIONS, Inc
1375 Boston Post Road P.O. Box 776
Old Saybrook, CT 06475
+1 860-388-4656
+1 860-388-4657
[email protected][url] www.traditionsfirearms.com[/url]
USA

Walt
:-{)>

 

[jim gray]

I'm not sure of it's history,, but I did see a blunderbuss that had been converted to percussion on an auction site.