Ever play with a blunderbuss?

[Mike Brooks]

I think mine is signed M.S.[url] Brooks.made[/url] by someone else.It is a very nice chief's grade trade gun.I bought it used at Ft Frederick several years ago.You have a good weekend.it was nice talking with you.I am going to look around your website now and make a "christmas" wish list.I just wish the economy was better and I had more spending money....
J.J.

It could be one of my early guns, My initials are M.S.Brooks, and I might have signed one of my early guns that way.....
Do you have any pictures of that gun? Or a better description? I've been to Ft. Frederick several times in the late 90's and sold alot of guns at that event.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

After trying everything from nails and glass (marbles)to jacks.


I found I liked dimes the best.

BP powered frizbees!

 

[benvenuto]

I haven't fired it yet. I'm going to do a little reshaping on the stock and dull down the overly polished metal bits.

make sure to take some before and after pics - I would be interested to see what you can do with it...
The doglock blunderbusses I have pictures of have almost no wrist and no "baluster" (is that the correct term?). i wish loyalist had left even more wood on the butt to play with...

 

[musketman]

After trying everything from nails and glass (marbles)to jacks.


I found I liked dimes the best.

BP powered frizbees!

That would be an expensive load...

Why not use dime size washers?

That would be like BP powered hollow-point frizbees... :haha: :thumbsup:

 

[3 stinky dogs]

In 1808, amidst the ballooning craze which had by now swept all of France, a dispute arose between M. de Grandpre and M. le Pique over a certain Mademoiselle Tirevit, a lady engaged at the Imperial Opera. A duel was agreed upon for May 3rd, three months from the day of their argument, so that the heat of their impassioned anger could cool, and they would be able to face each other like gentlemen.

It was decided the duel should take place in the air. Two balloons were constructed exactly alike. Each man chose his second, as witness to the event, who would ride in the car with him. Blunderbuss guns were issued, as the intention was not to aim at the other person, but rather to bring down the other