Underhammer Blunderbuss

[SHIPCHIEF]

I've been watching 14" & 18" 4 bore Blunderbuss barrels on the Gunbrokers auction site.
The flintlock and big wood have been a problem for me...Then I saw the underhammer offering of the old blue grouse http://www.underhammers.com/ site, page 2 picture of an underhammer blunderbuss. Slender, light, and pointable with a view over the top like a modern auto shotgun!
I understand that this may be an out of date site and I may have to build my own from scratch, but the elegant slender simplicity totally blew me away!

 

[Ironhand54]

I've been watching 14" & 18" 4 bore Blunderbuss barrels on the Gunbrokers auction site.
The flintlock and big wood have been a problem for me...Then I saw the underhammer offering of the old blue grouse http://www.underhammers.com/ site, page 2 picture of an underhammer blunderbuss. Slender, light, and pointable with a view over the top like a modern auto shotgun!
I understand that this may be an out of date site and I may have to build my own from scratch, but the elegant slender simplicity totally blew me away!

When I shot BP trap matches several shooters used under hammer guns. Sight picture was their biggest reason.

Ironhand

 

[4v50 Gary]

I can see an underhammer target or buggy rifle and pistol but not a blunderbus. Blunderbus should be flintlock. It's too slim up to the point where the barrel flares. Mind you, your $$$ your build. It's a matter of personal taste for me.

 

[midland man]

a 32c in that for squirrels would be cool!

 

[SHIPCHIEF]

About 20 years ago I met a seller at the Washington State Mountain Man Rendezvous & trade show who had scaled from photos, then built a 4 bore blunderbuss. He brought a plywood panel that patterned the (iirc) 14 ea, 30 cal balls dispatched from the Beast. A one shot deck clearing device!
I've been hooked on the concept since that moment.
Right next to him was a very pale and very old guy who scratch built cap-n-ball revolvers - pistols & carbines of prodigious caliber.
Double hooked at one event!!