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Re: Cutting round balls to induce fragmenting?
« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2021, 04:47:21 AM »
During the Blackhawk War, There is evidence of the Indians double balling their trade guns. It was supposedly quite effective.
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Re: Cutting round balls to induce fragmenting?
« Reply #26 on: May 30, 2021, 04:51:17 AM »
It would be, for a smooth bore. The US army found buck and ball, or tje straight 000 9 pellet buckshot loads in their
69 muskets to be far superior to raising "whoops" from the "wolves" that prowled around the forts in the dark.
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