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  2. Round shot - Wikipedia

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    A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a large-caliber gun is also called a cannonball.

  3. List of cannon projectiles - Wikipedia

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    gunpowder 3. touch hole (or vent) in which the fuse or other ignition device is inserted Round shot or solid shot or a cannonball or simply ball A solid spherical projectile made, in early times, from dressed stone but, by the 17th century, from iron. The most accurate projectile that could be fired by a smooth-bore cannon, used to batter the ...

  4. 3-inch ordnance rifle - Wikipedia

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    First, its 3-inch bore was narrower than the 12-pounder's bore and could fire fewer canister balls. Second, the rifling of the barrel caused the canister to be thrown in an irregular pattern. For these reasons, Union General Henry Jackson Hunt believed that the 3-inch ordnance rifle's effective canister range was less than half that of the 12 ...

  5. List of the United States Army munitions by supply catalog ...

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    (Each shell ontains 122 × 3/8-inch(0.38-caliber) steel balls and acts like a giant shotgun shell.) Gross weight: 97 lbs. Volume: 2 cubic feet. R1GIA = ? × 37 mm AP Capped-Tracer M51 Shell in wooden crate. R1HAA = 10 × 37 mm APC-T M51 Shell in wooden crate. Volume: 0.72 cubic feet.

  6. Canister shot - Wikipedia

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    Examples of old case-shot, which predates the canister British case-shot, 1914. Canister shot consists of a closed metal cylinder typically loosely filled with round lead or iron balls packed with sawdust to add more solidity and cohesion to the mass and to prevent the balls from crowding each other when the round was fired.

  7. Terminal ballistics - Wikipedia

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    Bullet parts: 1 metal jacket, 2 lead core, 3 steel penetrator. Terminal ballistics is a sub-field of ballistics concerned with the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target. Bullet design (as well as the velocity of impact) largely determines the effectiveness of penetration. [1]