When was blunderbuss released?

18th Century Click to see full answer. Also to know is, when was the blunderbuss invented? 18th Century is a blunderbuss a shotgun? is that shotgun is a gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge while blunderbuss is an old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails Correspondingly, why is it called a blunderbuss? The term “blunderbuss” is of Dutch origin, from the Dutch word donderbus, which is a combination of donder, meaning “thunder”, and bus, meaning “Pipe” (Middle Dutch: busse, box, tube, from Late Latin, buxis, box, from Ancient Greek pyxίs (πυξίς), box: esp. from boxwood).How far can a blunderbuss shoot?At close range the weapon would have been quite deadly. The spread from the gun could quite easily be as much as a few feet about ten to twenty feet from the muzzle, perhaps as much as six to ten feet at a range of thirty or forty feet.

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