Blunderbuss suggestions ?and legal?

[5HoursNorth]

I’ve been looking to release my inner privateer and was fishing around the internet for reproduction blunderbusses (ideally 10gauge )and can’t really find much in Canada ,then I was reading that they might be prohib do to bore size?any truth to that?if not what do you recommend ?

 

[Snider shooter]

Not prohibited. I’ve fired a few and was fun but it cured my itch to buy one. It’s a shotgun and I have other ML shotguns that are better suited to what I wanted. Basically a range toy and not good for hunting.
We had to load one with spent 22 brass and shoot some pumpkins. Would be nasty to get hit with. The original purpose was a close up defensive gun that really was pointed more than actually aimed. Novelty wore off after shooting them.

 

[tiriaq]

If flintlock, has antique status.

There have been some craftsmen in the US making really high quality reproductions. There are kits of quality parts available, but these are not snap together LEGO projects.

 

[tiriaq]

For an example of a kit (for a 10ga gun) have a look at the Pecatonica River Long Rifle Supply company.

 

[AfroCowboy]

I've longed to find a CVA blunderbuss kit but alas it was before my time as a gun owner.

 

[EthanisAwsome]

So from my knowledge to shorten it and condense it. If it is a modern reproduction and used Flint,wheel, or match lock sky's the limit as long as it's based on a "historical" firearm they don't really define the "historical part". Technically you can't "legally" produce a percussion muzzle loader as it is now necessary to have a manufacturing licence to produce non restricted firearms, a percussion ignition firearm is considered modern if produced today no matter the style. Now don't be discouraged if it is a time period piece it is okay for import as a antique if percussion looking for large calibre/gauge guns or rifles look to Europe at auctions the NA market has to little supply to the demand while in EU it is relatively flipped, that's what I did for my big bore guns and rifles.

 

[flintyboom]

They're totally legal. Here's one I finished a few months ago. It was an 11 bore. I'm currently building a 4 bore snaphaunce.

 

[kapanak]

Sitting Fox Custom Muzzleloaders K-4 or K-4-10 Blunderbuss kits are by far my favourite overkill blunderbuss you can make today and still have it be treated as an antique. https://sittingfoxcustommuzzleloaders.com/rk-4-10gablunderbuss-kit-2/
These are not cheap kits, and they require more than just assembly, just be aware of the work required unless you want to pay for it to be done for you.

 

[Valiant]

I think originals had a tapered bore from breech to muzzle. Reproductions only have funnel on muzzle so not same as originals.
The problem with all of them is you can't aim them because of funnel on muzzle so not really something you would really use very much

 

[barbarossa]

There is also the flintlock musketoon which is similar but normally has a longer barrel