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eddys
Hi, my husband and I buy and sell antigues Collectibles ect, and came acros a gentleman who has what is called a Stockade Blunderpuss gun for sale. We would like to know a bit more about it, all he told us is that it is an old piece, from maybe around the time of the Mayflower. It is large, and has to be rested on something to shoot. He also told us that the barrel could be filled with a ball or rocks or just about anything to be used as a projectile. Any info would be appreciated, Thanks
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  • jjmitchell60
    What he most likely has is also called a swivel gun. As to it being an original, could be but they are making reproduction ones to this day in both metal and brass barreled. What a swivel gun is is a large gauge blunderbluss, usually anything from 6 gauge up to a 2 gauge! Most reproductions of today are either 8 ga. or 4 ga. They look like a shoulder fired blundebluss complete with fulll length stock but in the middle of the fore arm section of the stock they have a piece that mounts them to a swivel. It is hard to explain. They were used on fortified stations, stations/forts with a stockade around them, and they were used on board sailing ships. Another use of them was on the bow of portage boats on rivers such as the Ohio, Missippi, and Missouri. Lewis and Clark had swivel guns with them on at least one of their boats. I am a member of a BP club in KY that is building a recreation of a trade station on the Licking River at a State Park. The station we are recreating was in place in 1784 and we are within 100 yards of it's original site. A stockade/swivel gun would be used at a station at that time depending on the owners finances! I would be interested in viewing pictures of it and would possibly be interested in buying it. Do you know if it is a flint lock, a percussion lock, or even a match lock fired piece? If you could post some pictures on here or even e-mail them to me I could maybe help in giving an idea as to age. If you post them on here there are others on GB that can help establish age as well. Go to the below link and look at the Boat Gun 1700s era picture on that page. It is a swivel blunderbluss! Hope this helps.

    http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/blunbuss.html

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  • eddys
    Wow, thank you for taking the time to answer or question. He bought this gun well over 20 years ago, it still may be a reproduction, but You helped us a lot with your information. We sell a lot of item on e-bay, and are in the process at this time to sell some of this Gentlemans items on there, of course knowing that we cannot sell firearms on e-bay we told him we would look for an optional site that would allow us to do so. I will in the near future see him once again, and will at that time take some pictures of this and some other old flintlock guns he has, and will post them here, in the hopes of more information, and maybe some sales as well. I just registered on this site today, we also have some old BB guns and such ourselves, and this looks as if it may be just the place to do some business, and maybe make some new aquaintences along the way, Thanks again, hope to talk to you again in the near future,
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