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What is Girardoni’s Windbüchse


Jeb48

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Ran across this on another board and thought it was an interesting gun that I never knew existed. It is a very early air powered gun used by the military. Here is the first paragraph and the link to the full article and pictures.

"The Girardoni air rifle, also known by its German name the Windbüchse, was a military air gun designed in Vienna by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Girardoni c.1779. It was issued to the ‘Imperial-Royal’ army of the Holy Roman Empire between 1780 to 1815, but only used for a few years during that time period."

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