Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Macabre French Grave Robber Trap Gun 18th C.

kronckew · 29th August 2009, 08:50 PM

if you look close you can see they were mounted on a pivot, and normally would have more than one string radiating out from it, the string that the robber blundered into would swing the gun around to line up with the trip string before firing. of course as a 'blunderbuss' they were loaded with buckshot or scrap metal (langrage) such that lining up approximately didn't really matter too much.

29th August 2009, 08:50 PM	#4
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,214	if you look close you can see they were mounted on a pivot, and normally would have more than one string radiating out from it, the string that the robber blundered into would swing the gun around to line up with the trip string before firing. of course as a 'blunderbuss' they were loaded with buckshot or scrap metal (langrage) such that lining up approximately didn't really matter too much.