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If anyone has built a Traditions Blunderbuss kit, could they measure?

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I am going to start my winter build it season with a Traditions Flintlock Bunderbuss kit. It will be primarily a test bed to get my kit building skills back up. Being both practical and a tightwad, don't want to leave a $389 kit + tools + time just sitting there since a blunderbuss is totally useless to me and would want to recoup the stock & lock work off of it into something with the semblance of being a normal flintlock. The goal is once the kit is completed as a blunderbuss with an obligatory firing, then swap the barrel

If anyone has built or bought one, I'd appreciate it if you posted the barrel diameter at the breech(correct me if I'm wrong but the first inch or so appears octagon) and at the end of the stock before it starts to flare. If it is octagon on the breech end, the flat size would be much appreciated also. The pix below is what I want to achieve. And I want to start searching now to get the replacement barrel.

I appreciate any help with this,

Regards,

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I am seriously eyeballing one of those same blunderbuss kits, though it'll be at least a few months before I spring for it. If no one else answers before then, when I finally get the thing I'll get those measurements.
 
Hey WG, I just saw this thread when @AtlatlMan 's post brought it up in New Posts. Hope this info is still useful.

I have a Spanish mfg. Traditions kit blunderbuss that I assembled in 2015. It is percussion, not flintlock.

BBL at breech is 1.024"
BBL in the middle is 1.024"
BBL at muzzle end but behind the flare is 1.027" ; ok, so maybe that was 0.003" past the start of the flare... :)

Mine is not octagonal at the breech. I believe that would indicate a factory-installed breech plug. Mine has a hooked breech. There are flats milled on the breech end, however, on the right side where the bolster/drum for the percussion nipple is; directly across from that is another flat. BBL width there is 0.93". Interestingly (but probably completely irrelevent), the left side flat is flanked by 2 angled flats. So it is a three-sided tri-a-gon on the left, round on top & bottom, and flat (parallel to left side center flat) on the right. All flats are about 1.5" long and the rest of the barrel is round.

Hope that helps.
 
I am going to start my winter build it season with a Traditions Flintlock Bunderbuss kit. It will be primarily a test bed to get my kit building skills back up. Being both practical and a tightwad, don't want to leave a $389 kit + tools + time just sitting there since a blunderbuss is totally useless to me and would want to recoup the stock & lock work off of it into something with the semblance of being a normal flintlock. The goal is once the kit is completed as a blunderbuss with an obligatory firing, then swap the barrel

If anyone has built or bought one, I'd appreciate it if you posted the barrel diameter at the breech(correct me if I'm wrong but the first inch or so appears octagon) and at the end of the stock before it starts to flare. If it is octagon on the breech end, the flat size would be much appreciated also. The pix below is what I want to achieve. And I want to start searching now to get the replacement barrel.

I appreciate any help with this,

Regards,

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Just curious if you ever completed this build? I had the same idea of swapping out the barrel
 
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