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Offline davec2

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Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« on: January 13, 2020, 12:23:08 AM »
Back in January of 2018, I finished a blunderbuss commission for a fellow.  I got so busy with work, etc., that I never checked back in with him to find out if he had ever had a chance to fire it. I was returning from a church service this morning and I received a text from him with this picture attached.......



He also sent a short video of his son firing it.  It is such a good picture I thought some of you might enjoy it..... ;)

Here is the link about the gun build itself...            https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=38909.0   
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2020, 01:23:56 AM »
OUTSTANDING!
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2020, 04:21:52 AM »
I was all set to have a Blunderbuss made a while back but had poor luck finding a barrel.

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2020, 06:30:18 AM »
That is a great shot.

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2020, 07:15:53 AM »
I was all set to have a Blunderbuss made a while back but had poor luck finding a barrel.
Ed Rayl makes them, am sure there are a couple others also.
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2020, 05:36:25 PM »
Now that's just neat.

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2020, 05:48:27 PM »
I was all set to have a Blunderbuss made a while back but had poor luck finding a barrel.

That's the sort of bbl you order and wait until it's done.  Not usually an "inventory" item for the bbl makers I'm familiar with-they all pretty well work to order and orders take time. And not a lot floating around on the second-hand or NOS market.

Great pic Dave, thanks for sharing.

Makes the FLBB look like a multi-purpose tool, launches projectiles, lights up any flammables, and provides a magician's puff of smoke for disappearing tricks.  ;D

Looks like a hoot and a real public range attention grabber. 
« Last Edit: January 13, 2020, 05:54:04 PM by WadePatton »
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2020, 09:50:50 PM »
I sure wouldn't want to be in front of that blast.  ;)
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2020, 07:46:32 AM »
Sure to be a wicked stopper in a close-up personal defense scenario.

From my readings, and blunderbuss was essentially meant as a niche close range defensive weapon. It served the same role as today would a Mossberg.

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2020, 08:15:02 AM »
Sure to be a wicked stopper in a close-up personal defense scenario.

From my readings, and blunderbuss was essentially meant as a niche close range defensive weapon. It served the same role as today would a Mossberg.

Yup. The 590 of its day.

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2020, 04:07:13 AM »
THAT is a GREAT picture. Looks like Cotton Candy, even the pan's flash.
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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2020, 05:38:19 AM »
THAT is a GREAT picture. Looks like Cotton Candy, even the pan's flash.

Now I’m hungry for candied cotton...

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Re: Boy These are Fun to Shoot !!!
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2020, 02:28:02 AM »
Now that just looks like a lot of fun to play with. I was sitting in a hunting stand the other night with a bunch of hogs in front of me and one of those loaded with OO buck might have been just the ticket for them.