The joys of a muzzleloader.

Loading a single-shot muzzleloading blunderbuss (“Thunder Gun” in Dutch) is an exercise in restraint. First you have to load a precise amount of blackpowder (propellant charge), followed by wadding, a piece of technical cloth that helps the roundball (a metal ball with a girth equivalent to a 50 caliber bullet) eject itself out of the barrel […]