Quote Originally Posted by AMX View Post
Check out the weapon on the cover of the first book:
http://www.waffenbuecher.com/HiMaSch/schuy.htm

That's an Austrian flintlock grenade pistol, caliber 78mm, dated 1761.

Does anybody have an idea what sort of performance could be expected from that?
I'm primarily interested in range, compared with typical throwing ranges.
Wow, that's cool. I have no clue as to the range -- similar weapons are sometimes referred to as "hand mortars". I don't think I've ever seen a pistol sized one before -- usually they're more like a blunderbuss in size. Sometimes they even had adaptors that fit onto the bayonet lug of a normal musket.