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English: Short barrelled parapet mounted blunderbuss flintlock blunderbuss fully encased in wood flintlock blunderbuss, completely encased in wood; no trigger; groove for ramrod; peg for swivel mounting; flint in place; wooden stock made in tow parts, top and bottom; held around barrel by two metal bands; wooden dowel at top rear; considerable borer in top section of wood no markings ...
A French blunderbuss, called an espingole, 1760, France Musketoon, blunderbuss and coach gun from the American Civil War era. The flared muzzle is the defining feature of the blunderbuss, differentiating it from large caliber carbines; the distinction between the blunderbuss and the musketoon is less distinct, as musketoons were also used to fire shot, and some had flared barrels.
A flintlock repeater, signed Michal Dorttlo 1683, uses many elements of the Kalthoff system. The breech is a vertically rotating cylinder, and the trigger guard can be rotated laterally to reload the weapon. However, it lacks the powder carrier found on Kalthoff guns, and instead houses both powder and ball in the butt.
Various muzzle loading arms, to scale; number 8 is identified as a blunderbuss or musketoon (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910) The musketoon is a shorter-barrelled version of the musket and served in the roles of a shotgun or carbine. Musketoons could be of the same caliber as the issue musket or of a much larger caliber, 1.0–2.5 inches (25 ...
A pair of early dragons from Poland fitted with the miquelet lock A dragon, found at a battlefield in Cerro Gordo, Veracruz, Mexico. A dragon is a shortened version of blunderbuss, a firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore.
The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss [3] (simplified Chinese: 连珠铳; traditional Chinese: 連珠銃), also known as "Lianzhu Huochong" (连珠火铳), [4] was a kind of breech-loading, smooth-bore, single-shot flintlock, [5] invented by Dai Zi (戴梓), [6] a firearms expert in the early Qing Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1674).
The term flintlock was, and still is, often applied to any form of friction (flint) lock other than the wheellock with the various forms sub-categorized as snaphaunce, miquelet, English doglock, Baltic lock, and French or "true" flintlock ("true" being the final, widely used form). Strictly speaking, all are flintlocks.
The Nock gun was a seven-barrelled flintlock smoothbore firearm used by the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars.It is a type of volley gun adapted for ship-to-ship fighting, but was limited in its use because of the powerful recoil and eventually discontinued.