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2. Cast bullet - Wikipedia

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   Minié balls of the mid-19th century could be either cast or swaged. Swaging , rather than casting, became a preferred manufacturing technique during the 19th century Industrial Revolution ; but cast bullets remained popular in early rimmed black powder cartridges like the .32-20 Winchester , .32-40 Ballard , .38-40 Winchester , .38-55 ...

3. Minié ball - Wikipedia

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   The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié for muzzle-loaded, rifled muskets. Invented in 1846 shortly followed by the Minié rifle , the Minié ball came to prominence during the Crimean War [ 1 ] and the American Civil War where it was found to inflict significantly more serious wounds ...

4. Patch box (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Patch box from Jonathan Cilley's rifle.. A patch box is a patch storage compartment on muzzleloader guns, usually built into the stock or butt of a rifle. [1] Patches were used to wrap a round shot lead ball projectile so that it fit snugly in the muzzle of the gun creating the necessary seal.

5. Bullet - Wikipedia

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   The original round musket ball was smaller than the bore of the barrel. At first it was loaded into the barrel just resting upon the powder. Later, some sort of material was used as a wadding between the ball and the powder as well as over the ball to keep it in place, [15] it held the bullet

6. Pattern 1853 Enfield - Wikipedia

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   The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.

7. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   And, it is the single round smaller than the 375 H&H Magnum that has routinely been allowed for legal hunting of dangerous African species. 12.7×108mm: The 12.7×108mm round is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle round used by the Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries. It is the approximate Russian ...