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Looking for help with exact ID for this Civil War era Minie Ball. Thanks in advance!
🔎 UNIDENTIFIED ID for Minie Ball
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Definitely a yankee Merrill Carbine bullet.
BTW, technically it isn't a Minie-ball, because it lacks a base-cavity large enough to expand outward into the gunbarrel's rifling-grooves.
It's okay that it doesn't have the expanding base-cavity, because the Merrill was a breechloading rifle, and thus the bullet didn't need to expand into the rifling.
BTW, technically it isn't a Minie-ball, because it lacks a base-cavity large enough to expand outward into the gunbarrel's rifling-grooves.
It's okay that it doesn't have the expanding base-cavity, because the Merrill was a breechloading rifle, and thus the bullet didn't need to expand into the rifling.
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