Blunderbuss - Buckshot Patterning 

You definitely win the RU-vid "Thumbnail of the year" award! Cool little firearm!

I would hate to be hit by 15 x 32cal ball fired from that thing. No wonder coachmen, boarding parties and grumpy old men loved using them.

I was actually impressed how a plant wad was able to improve performance, I thought it would only prevent stuff from falling from the barrel

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"it loads with a bit of everything" ...does it take glock magazines? *sit-com laughter*

When I was heavily collecting, the question I always thought of was,” How armed is well armed”. Clearly a blunderbuss with 15 .32 round balls in it will solve most, one on one entanglement at typical room distances in a modern house, or dealing with a ruffian attacking your stage coach, Add a flint lock pistol, a broad sword, or a tomahawk and a dirk, and you are very well armed.

Taofledermaus: Shove the kitchen sink down the barrel as a projectile! Karl: Look, we know what /projectiles/ work best, but what about the /wad/?

Fun fact: The blunderbuss was used as non-lethal crowd control, where it was packed with tar soaked cork instead of shot and then fired at people causing burns and fear. The 18th century rubber bullet/bean bag gun.

The ultimate in home defense

Is it wrong that at 6 seconds I involuntarily yelled "YARR MATEY"

I'll never get tired of black powder content. Love it!

Spanish moss works real well as wadding. It's historically accurate too

I think you have fallen in love with the “trabuco” as it is called un Spain. You look like “ Curro Jiménez “, although you may need a longer sideburns 😁. Greetings from Spain

I would say that using a wad, between the load and charge, would depend on how many targets need to question their life choices.

Now we need a What Would (Dr.) Stone Do blunderbuss build.

This and Forgotten Weapons are fantastic. No Bro Tacticool bs, just love of firearms and history. Thank you.

This video was very informational. I never knew Karl could count!

Finally a use for jars of old bent messed up screws and nails that cant be throw away!

Have never seen you look better in a thumbnail.

"This isnt click bait, this isnt gun memes or recent events," I see your subtle ribbing of youtube's #1 kalashnikov enthusiest lol

3:36 at first I was like, WHY ARE YOU FPS RUSSIA-ING SO CLOSE TO THE TARGET!!!

Early adopters can struggle with their 100 and something year young "smokeless" powder, I'm all for tried-and-true, mature technology like black powder.

I wish my dad could have seen this video. I think if he didn't have an aneurysm he would have laughed his head off.

I'm loving all the blackpowder content lately, this is really cool.

I wonder if poison ivy would make a good wad...you know...for those times when you feel you need to add itch to injury.

Most unusual thing I ever rammed down a blunderbuss: a dead squirrel. Rocketed that guy to his fiery glory! Missed the clay pigeon at the skeet range, though.

This is absolutely a hoot. 👍

Sage wad to ward off evil spirits at the same time!

Excellent video, thank you sir. When I was a lot younger I remember reading an account of a frontiersman defending himself and only having plugs of chewing tobacco to use as wads. I remember wondering of the veracity of it at the time, but you've laid that old chestnut to rest thank you.

"Aaaaaargh, matey! Hoist the Jolly Roger! " Something funny about that gun always makes me want to be a pirate.

I had a BP shotgun a number of years ago ........... the old timer that ran the local gun shop said to just use a page from the phone book as both over powder and over shot wad. It was by far the most fun shotgun I ever owned!

Well, hell. Some legislator in congress is going to see this and start passing laws.

"Under-ball lubricated wadding" would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap as a child 😅

That first pang on the target though. He ded. Like at least 3 ded.

I'm so proud of in range kicking RU-vid to the curb and now here we are able to enjoy content that otherwise might scare other channels cause they wouldn't know how to handle adverse just going cold turkey for new videos, I LITERALLY use In-Range as my case study for "this is what happens when you do things on your own and take back more control of what content you can post"

I do not own any scary looking weapons. I just have a couple of cap lock brass dunderbuss. They should not scare anyone. Right! One of those shots would have cut a person in two pieces. Not effective at all.

Now I really want a blunderbuss. Can you do a summery of the modern makers?

What brand is that blunderbuss/ where do I get one? 🤣

That's a mighty blundertoon.

So, for a large crowd of unruly "zombies," go with the second method for better shot dispersal, yes?

I love this black powder content, but I’d love to see a manual of arms video for a matchlock firearm

Government: "Sir is that a registered bush?"

Ooooo almost sounded like a dig towards Brandon Herrera at the end there. I like it.

My brother has a blunderbuss. Video cannot properly capture the noise this thing makes when it's fired. Great video, but now I want a blunderbuss of my own.

One of the favored "wad" materials from back in the day was Paper Wasp Nest material. As good as felt.

Testing unfair, that was clearly a swiss-enginered bush.

That is literally a cannon with a shoulder stock.

Hallway home defense. Get two of them for the next shot. Easy carry weapons and then go to your revolvers. Always be prepared and protected. Never give up your Constitutional rights. Never give up your own protection and safety for what the government promises. When seconds count, remember that the police are only minutes away.

This video answered questions that I did not even know that I had...

...and this is why I believe the Flintlock should do more damage than the Blunderbuss in Sea of Thieves. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Start harvesting that creosote bush and you've got some "Organic Made in USA Apocalypse Wads" and you can consult Magpul to price them accordingly. Seriously though, cool idea for a vid!

Great video as always thank you!

Eric elephant is cool

Will it take a Glock magazine? No, but you can stuff the Mag down the barrel and kill a moose with it. This gun uses all know and unknown objects as ammo. Love it!

Yarrr!

Do not try this: Load greased balls into gun, dump powder over balls, shake/bounce gun to make powder settle under balls, place wadding over balls to hold them in place, attempt to fire. Loud noise, lots of smoke, target was startled but unharmed.

Trevor: this is a pirate’s gun Bubbles: well that makes you Long John Dickweed I guess.

my dumbass thinking the target was right next to him

My grandfather had a blunderbus. We still have it. At least thats what we always called it. It looked like the typical pilgrim weapon. Heavwood stock, heavy walled flaired barrel muzzle. But we think it was a deck gun from a ship. It has an area in about the center of the stock with a hole that runs side to side. Which was used as a mount for a piece similard to an oar lock. I remember taking it to school for show and tell in about 1967-68. Mom wrapped it in a quilt. Put me on the school bus and off I went. Came home the same way. Oh the good old days.

Now I want a blunderbuss..... Anyone wanna buy an 870 pump? : P

First! Yeah boi

Just wondering anyone make a commercialy available Blunderbuss/Musketoon or is this one available from a vendor?

I posted a old video to my social media yesterday of me introducing a friend to my blackpowder 1858 Remington New Army clone. The laugh that comes from him after the first shot is great. He owns one now. It's great fun.

Reminds me of when I was experimenting with various buck and ball loading variations with my replica U.S. model 1842 .69 cal musket (best birthday present I've ever gotten). It's really quite interesting how the loading order of the shot and main ball can really affect the accuracy of the main ball and spread of the shot. As I recall, best main ball accuracy came from loading the shot after the ball, but it drastically increased the spread of the shot, though for the way early and mid 1800s battles were fought, that would possibly be an advantage.

I hate to tell someone as experiences as you what to do so I'm sorry for that. But please keep your fingers off the top of the ramrod, even though it's wood not metal. Black powder can still spontaniously combust if agitated enough. People have lost fingers and even hands doing this. The preferred way is to use 2 or 3 fingers on the side of the rod like you're holding a dart.

I liked it when he said "wad" and "balls."

Everyone thinks the bell is for spread but it is for loading. Everyone thinks the wad is to keep from having the load from falling out but it is to compress the load against the charge to get more velocity and to compact the pattern. A compression wad between powder and shot will also result in a tighter pattern..

“You don’t need a fancy wonder wad with lube on it” Where’s Sterling Archer when you need him

ummm. With a Blunderbuss, You dont hold it up to your face. More or less its either more of a chest firing stance or down by hip firing stance.

This is so cool. "a love for firearms and history" indeed!

I, too, have found that with the right bush, I require no lubricant for my wad.

You can see how this is the perfect pirate gun or a great defence for a coach driver against a highwayman

Ok... WHERE CAN I GET A BLUNDERBUSS? (Huge wantage!)

"...not about gun memes." Shots fired, with creosote bush wadding, at Brandon Herrera.

I'd have to be very careful doing the whole plant wad thing down here - many of the bushes and most of the trees in Western Australia have highly flammable foliage.

Blunderbusses are mean to be stuck into stagecoach windows to make the occupants re-consider their choices. On this note, Karl forgot to yell "Stand and Deliver!" before firing.

This is proof that a blunderbuss is not designed to make a wider pattern as some seem to think. They were often used on moving platforms like ships, boats and coaches. The wide muzzle is just for ease of loading and the intimidation factor of that giant hole. I have done a bit of shooting with sawed off shotguns and these too keep a decent pattern.

" Just buy a Blunderbuss !" _Joe Biden

Believe on the name of Jesus Christ and be saved from hell before it’s eternally too late if you haven’t already.

Where did the .308 Di Revolution videos go? Were they deleted?

Missing the eye patch. -50 pirate points

Karl, you say that we should try black powder thingies if we have the chance, and I’m convinced, I’d like a black powder muzzleloader. But where should I get one from, assuming that I’m a 20-something with not too much disposable income?

That reminds me. Is that a blunderbuss in your shorts, or are you just glad to see me?

well now I kinda wanna blunder bluss

Never realized just how much they resemble a deck cannon.

Even the kits for THESE (the percussion cap model) are sold out atm...dam crazy times

I've done civil war reenacting for years and we would hang cast iron pans and shoot them with carrots out of our rifles. about half a baby carrot and 25-30 grains of powder.

Who makes that blunderbuss? I'm in love

The creosote bush as a wad threw me for a loop. That was really cool. Now I kinda want my own blunderbuss so I can try leaves and such up where I live in southern Ohio. Fantastic video, Karl.

Love this sort of thing.

Really? Now I have to buy a blunderbuss? Really?

8:29 Shots fired! (15 to be exact)

Great video! I like my flinter 'bus a lot and have fed it massive loads of powder in "tests." It held up well. Something you might want to consider if you're flintlocking, is a touch-hole pick. I also often use a spring-loaded primer do-hicky to shoot just the right amount of priming powder into the pan. (It's 1-For 2-F for the main charges.) By picking the touch-hole it makes a clear path from the pan into the charge and with one or two 'taps' of the primer nipple in the pan, it shoots a quick jet of flame into the charge. I get lock times that are pretty doggone close to a modern centerfire rifle with this method, and have helped a few flintlock hunters who were ready to give up and go back to modern hunting discover they can be quite accurate with their 'smoke-poles.' With black powder cannon, the "pad" between the charge and the ball was usually a wad of yarn strands from old and weak rope found aboard ship. I'm pretty sure that "Economic Venture Mariners" of that era, probably used the rope yarn for their muskets, pistols and blunderbusses as well.

so, without the wad the blunderbuss acts like you would think a blunderbuss would

That's more precise than the S333. :D

Just in case... don't load the gun with your dominant hand.

This is great, i want to see the same test but with some nice handpicked rocks, maybe ones that have been ground into a nice roundish shape by moving water and with wadding sourced from nature as well. And sometimes (ship battles for example) it might be desirable to ditch the wadding to increase spread so do a test like that with a large piece of cardboard or something similar behind the target, and if you could do a chronograph comparison with wad vs no wad that would be awesome as well.

Loading with bushes, twigs and bits of gravel; _infinite_ free ammo.

Twelve people are blundered by the blunderbuss.

I cringe thinking of the lead poisoning.