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How to Identify Revolutionary War Musket Balls Sciencing
Since that time the ball cartridge construction followed the same pattern until they disappeared from the Ordnance manuals in 1861. Let's follow the words of the 1841 U.S. Ordnance manual to get closer to the time of musket balls. The flints. Selecting the right size, form and quality flint for a musket is a key factor if we want our shots to.
Collection of 28 musket balls in 3 different sizes. Catawiki
Measure the ball's diameter. 18th-century musket balls range in diameter from 0.39 inches to 0.69 inches. The British Brown Bess musket carried a 0.693 inch diameter ball. American rifles took smaller balls, measuring less than 0.60 inches in diameter but no smaller than 0.39 inches.
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1. Lead balls were packed in boxes each containing 100 pounds of balls. 2. About four pounds of lead in each 100 pounds was lost in casting. Source: The Little Bombardier and Pocket Gunner London: T Egerton; 1801. P. 30 Placed on the Napoleon Series: March 2005 napoleon
U.S. Model 1842 Civil War Musket .69 caliber, Harper’s Ferry lock dated 1843. PRE1898
actually varied from 18.87 mm to 22.35 mm (mean diameter = 19.87 mm) (Eyers, 2006). The true calibre of 10 bore equates to 19.70 mm (i.e. the diameter from a sphere of lead weighing 1/10th of a pound) (Eyers, 2006). There are many references to the calibre of 17th Century muskets in the literature e.g.
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#1 Was seeing if I could get some recommendations on what size ball i should use for a .69 caliber flintlock. I am planning on using lubed paper cartridges. It seems my options are .672 .675 and .678 Also if anyone knows what size the standard military round was for a .69 bore in the 18th century that would be helpful Thanks! T tg Cannon Joined
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The barrel was 46 inches with an overall length of 62.5 inches. The weight was 10.4 pounds. It had a barrel bore of .75 caliber. The typical round or shot in use was around .69 caliber. The Bess was fitted with a 17 inch triangular cross-section bayonet.
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Musket Balls of Various Sizes. This is a grouping of lead balls of various sizes that would be shot from weapons. For source and more details, click here. Hamilton Picks. Alexander Hamilton. $14.99. (19134) Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording (Explicit Version) $23.73.
Musket Ball Size Chart
Musket balls are the types of projectiles that are fired from muskets. Before they were loaded down the muzzle, they were usually wrapped in paper or cloth, to keep excess gas behind the barrel. They were usually made of lead. Musket balls were made by pouring molten lead into a musket ball mould and trimming off surplus lead once it had cooled. At times stone musket balls were used. The lead.
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Typically, musket balls range in diameter from 0.39 inches to 0.80 inches. The British Brown Bess musket had a 0.75 inch bore but took a .693-inch-diameter ball. Charleville-style French muskets, which were supplied to the Continental Army, had a .69-inch bore but took a .63-inch ball.
Collection of 28 musket balls in 3 different sizes. Catawiki
Based upon this chart a .490 ball should weigh 177 grains. I opened a fresh box of .490 round balls and weighed all 100 of them, putting them in groups that were within 0.5 grains of each other. I had some balls as light as 175 grains, and others as high as 181.5 grains. That is quite a large variation in weight.
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Mar 23, 2013 #2 Haversack62 said: What was the common size round ball used with the model 1842 smoothbore. Also did they use a patch with the ball during the civil war. Also was it common to use a 58 cal cart. box or they used a 69 cal. box. They had a cartridge box for the .69 cal. muskets and no patch was used as it is a smoothbore.
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i found a musket ball the other day in the woods about 4 inches down. it is oxidized white, is not pefectly round and is about 3/4" across. does anyone know how to figure the calabre of this shot and guess the aproximate age? Amazon Forum Fav 👍
Shot (including musket balls, cannon balls and bullet moulds) Finds Recording Guides
Introduction This guide covers a variety of types of shot or ammunition, including cannon balls, musket balls and bullets. It has drawn heavily on a guide for FLOs produced by Amy Downes (FLO South and West Yorkshire) and on a guide to recording battlefield assemblages produced by Glenn Foard ( Foard 2009 - download the pdf here ).
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification A Guide
7 x 16mm Dia (15.8-16.2mm) (23.5-24.1 g) 4 x 18mm Dia (18.-19.0mm) (29.5-31.0 g) The chart below was reproduced from an old topic on here, thanks to user "mrscott" for the original image upload, if you download it and resize it by 200% it is a bit clearer, Dave Minelab Manticore : 11" Coil Minelab Equinox 800 : 11" Coil
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Book review: Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide by Daniel M. Sivilich (Oklahoma Press, 2016) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON]The title of this book makes it sound like a highly technical tract interesting only to those doing very sophisticated analysis or hoping to attach significance to a relatively featureless object.