My blunderbuss options

[rickystl]

WOW !!!! :O Great !!!....Now I want another blunderbuss !! LOL !!! Awesome picture

Much agree. That swivel blunderbuss with that big miquelet lock is so cool. LOL

Rick

 

[bornintheussr]

Scratch built spanish piece I completed last year

Very nice. Where you got that lock?

 

[rickystl]

I'm guessing today, for the most part, your choices are an India made gun, or a kit of some sort. If you're super patient, you might get lucky and find one of the old Pedersoli brass barreled models from the 1970's for sale. And an original brass barreled one would not be out of the question. The original iron barreled ones seem to have the bores pretty chewed up. Otherwise, if you can find a barrel, everything else can be made. They are probably not practical for target shooting or hunting. And generally I don't think they would be useful past about 15-yards. But that's all they were generally made for. Like an early style of sawed-off shotgun. I've never tried to shoot mine with a single ball. Just larger 00 size shot. It's devastating at 7-yards. And, they are indeed a blast to shoot.

Here is my blunderbuss. It's an 11-gauge with a thick breech for heavy loads. Made by the late Ben Coogle. The gun was assembled by Mike Brooks. I'm the second owner. The original owner must have been a large/tall guy as the LOP is about 15". I thought about having the butt stock shortened to 14". But thought that the LOP with this style of gun wouldn't make much difference. So left it as is. It balances very nice at the shoulder. I'm getting ready to start thinning my herd, but I would have a hard time letting this one go.

Rick

 

[rickystl]

Scratch built spanish piece I completed last year

Hi Swab

LOL. I can so picture that swivel gun being used to rip holes in the enemy's ship sails or clearing a deck before boarding. That gun is so cool.

Rick

 

[bornintheussr]

Hi Swab

LOL. I can so picture that swivel gun being used to rip holes in the enemy's ship sails or clearing a deck before boarding. That gun is so cool.

Rick

I would take one on a trip to post apocalyptic NY City to hunt zombies and call it something like Street Sweeper

And I just found his little sister

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

And I just found his little sister ...

Actually, the flintlock English Hand Mortar is the BIG brotha'! Yup, have one of those too! Oh, and works perfectly ... albeit 'Made in India'! Had to add that for all the haters ...

 

[Conquerordie]

Clay Smith has a 4 bore oct/round blunderbuss barrel on sale for $350. Custom made, just look on his site under Trade Blanket section. You want a real blunderbuss barrel, that's the one.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Clay Smith has a 4 bore oct/round blunderbuss barrel on sale for $350. Custom made, just look on his site under Trade Blanket section. You want a real blunderbuss barrel, that's the one.

That's a good price ... had one, sold it for $400. Pecatonica IIRC had them made up for a few kits, but don't have any of the components thereof or any parts left. I forget the owner's name, but I talked to him about getting a stock and such and informed me that after making one ... he wouldn't make another, take for whatever he intoned.

 

[bornintheussr]

What about Hand Gonne? I see Rifle Shoppe carries 3 different styles at very attractive price and as usual they hardly have any pictures. Was wondering how RS interpretation of Tannenberg style brass gonne looks like

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

What about Hand Gonne? I see Rifle Shoppe carries 3 different styles at very attractive price and as usual they hardly have any pictures. Was wondering how RS interpretation of Tannenberg style brass gonne looks like

Youse asks ... youse gets ... the link has more pictures too.

Link = https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...nberg-castle-replica-circa-late-1300s.177216/

 

[bornintheussr]

fantastic, thank you Dale, it looks authentic enough and I like it more then the other 2 styles that they have. Will call Jane tomorrow to place order

How many grains you load her with?
I meant gonne not Jane lol

 

[Commodore Swab]

Very nice. Where you got that lock?

Castings from TRS

 

[PhDBrewer]

And

What the catalog offered in 2009
William

 

[bornintheussr]

Thank you William for posting it
Great respect to TRS, prices the same as in 2009

 

[Poor Private]

Hard to get excited to spend the $$$$ that Traditions wants for their ‘blunderbuss’ since it is a cap lock.

Now, if it was a flintlock; yeah, it would be a not doubt

 

[Poor Private]

Hard to get excited to spend the $$$$ that Traditions wants for their ‘blunderbuss’ since it is a cap lock.

Now, if it was a flintlock; yeah, it would be a not doubt buy.

You can get the same blunderbuss in flint. I picked up one last fall. Works fine. Watch the Youtube video of a guy who will use it for turkey hunting.

 

[wganz]

You can get the same blunderbuss in flint. I picked up one last fall. Works fine. Watch the Youtube video of a guy who will use it for turkey hunting.

I do appreciate showing that to me.

https://muzzle-loaders.com/products/traditions-flintlock-blunderbuss-kit-54-caliber-kr510

Now, if memory doesn't totally fail me. There was a member here that stated that he had shortened the barrel to just forward of the liner in the barrel so that there was just a trace of muzzle flare left. Then did some judicious thinning of that stock such as thinned the wrist, made the transition from wrist to comb more distinct, thinned the butt stock (feel like an ijit that I cannot think of the correct name for the bulged lower part of the stock with a much relieved line coming from the wrist.. ¿'rail'? typified by the Brown Bess ) and took off a cord or so of wood from the forearm so that it was a respectable 'canoe gun'. Nice work. Didn't recognize it as a Traditions kit until he mentioned it.

 

[wganz]

I do appreciate showing that to me.

https://muzzle-loaders.com/products/traditions-flintlock-blunderbuss-kit-54-caliber-kr510
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Just noticed that the flintlock is $579 with the percussion is $120 cheaper at $459.

 

[Mad L]

Just noticed that the flintlock is $579 with the percussion is $120 cheaper at $459.

Not unusual; all makes and models I have ever seen that come Flint or Percussion, the Percussion is always $100 or so cheaper.

 

[Poor Private]

Just noticed that the flintlock is $579 with the percussion is $120 cheaper at $459.

I picked up the flinter. This is so I can do Mt. Man or early 1800's reenactments. Caplocks weren't around that early(1820 ish).