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POTD: Percussion Rifle and Duck Bill Blunderbuss Combination Gun
Combination guns are multi-barrel firearms that have at least one rifled and one smoothbore barrel. Such guns are not really common but what we have for today’s Photo Of The Day is an absolute unicorn or rather a platypus as it has a duck bill! This 19th-century European gat is a percussion combination gun the smoothbore barrel of which is a blunderbuss with a duck bill muzzle. This type of muzzle design spreads the shot pellets horizontally resulting in an oval-shaped pattern.
