Short and large-bored hand-held firearms of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, including turn-off pistols, blunderbusses, dragons and the cavalry petronel. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a pistol, blunderbuss or short firearm. It excludes long muskets, which sit in the muskets group, and artillery. These firearms were used by cavalry and by sailors and civilians for close defense, with the wide muzzle of the blunderbuss spreading shot at short range and the turn-off pistol loading from the breech end.
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Wikipedia: Wheellock Pistol
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A wheellock, wheel-lock, or wheel lock is a friction-wheel mechanism which creates a spark that causes a firearm to fire.
Wikipedia: Queen Anne pistol
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Queen Anne pistols are a type of breech-loading flintlock pistol known as a turn-off pistol, in which the chamber is filled from the front and accessed by unscrewing the barrel.
Wikipedia: Blunderbuss
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The blunderbuss is a seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large-caliber, smoothbore barrel.
Wikipedia: Dragon (firearm)
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A dragon is a shortened version of blunderbuss, a firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore.
Petronel, Wikipedia
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The petronel is a type of muzzleloading firearm, defined by Robert Barret (Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres, 1598) as a "horsemans peece".
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