.50 calibre flintlock shotgun being fired

 

    This quite spectacular photograph shows both the vivid muzzle flash as well as the "flash in the pan" when firing a flintlock gun. Using one of these guns under dark, or dusk conditions during wartime must have destroyed the night vision of the marksman, as well as giving away their position to the enemy.

 

.50 calibre flintlock shotgun

 

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