Talk:Musketoon

3 Musketoons?

What do you call someone who uses a musketoon? Elmer Fudd 19:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

This is just a wild guess, but given that:

• The word carbine was derived from the French "carabins", the name for the troops that used the shortened muskets
• The boundary between musketoon and carbine is blurry

I'd say that there's a possibility that the answer is that "carabins" used musketoons, and the name of the short rifle later changed to "carbine". scot 20:15, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

In the evidence given in Cobbett's State Trials, the Jacobite plotter (1696), George Porter has a "musquetoon" with six balls. In the Tower of London there is a blunderbuss from the same plot owned by Robert Charnock with which to shoot the King. Possibly the same piece?--Streona (talk) 10:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Musketoon or Blunderbuss?

I can't see any difference between a musketoon and a Blunderbuss. It might be simpler to merge the pages. If there is a difference, could somebody say what it is? 81.187.148.35 (talk) 18:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe the musketoon was slightly longer, in between a blunderbuss and a musket. I think the blunderbuss also had a larger bore more often than not. Sakraft1 (talk) 16:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Merging with Carbine article

This article should be merged with the Carbine article since musketoons and carbines are pretty much different names for the same weapon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.236.109.202 (talk) 20:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Added link to Blunderbuss page

Link to Blunderbuss has been added to the "see also" paragraph. As Sakraft said, the musketoon is more or less the rifle version of a Blunderbuss, but they are not the same. I don't think a merge is necessary. (Mr. Mindgap (talk) 21:36, 13 December 2013 (UTC))

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