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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.
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).
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 ...
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Similarly, the word "Bess" is commonly held to either derive from the word arquebus or blunderbuss (predecessors of the musket) or to be a reference to Elizabeth I, possibly given to commemorate her death. The OED has citations for "brown musket" dating back to the early 18th century that refer to the same weapon.
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This is purely a technical comment and I do not mean it to be taken as "for" or "against" whether we should do this (I haven't made my mind up because overlinking of dates in e.g. French Wikipedia is just well of very little utility but these are for specific sections not just kinda blunderbuss approach to linking every date that ever happened).