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[ArDirtSlinger]

This is a question; And I really didnt know where to post. So here goes; When was bullet cannelure introduced?

 

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[duggap]

As to a date, the best I could find said it was between 1890 and 1900. That shouldn't be too far off.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I have a question for you. When you say cannelure are you referring to the groove that runs around the diameter of the bullet or the tiny ridges that appeared in the groove in the late 1800s? The definition of cannelure is a groove that runs around the diameter of a bullet. Going by that definition they first appeared with the advent of metal cased cartridges. If, like me, you mean the ridged or serrated groove, because that is what I thought the cannelure was until I looked it up, then I think they first appeared in the 1870s. The first American made metallic cartridge was the .22 short introduced in 1857.
Hopefully, TCG will reply soon and properly school all of us about this subject.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cannelure

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

As Fyrffytr1 has astutely pointed out (and helpfully included a Wikipedia link), "cannelure" means a groove... and more specifically, on bullets it means a lubricant-containing groove which encircles the bullet's cylindrical body. So if that's what you meant, the answer is, even very-early Minie bullets had one or more cannelures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minié_ball
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Étienne_Minié

As Fyrffytr1 also already mentioned, you might be asking about a bullet's body-groove which has multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove. That's called a reeded cannelure or knurled cannelure. (See the photo below.) If that's what you meant... the earliest American-made bullet with a knurled cannelure I've been able to find in several years of researching that question was manufactured in 1877. However, a knurled-cannelure bullet may have been produced a bit earlier in Europe. I haven't come across any information about the earliest appearance of European knurled-cannelure bullets.

 

[ArDirtSlinger]

Thanks Gentleman,
And yes I did the knurled variety of cannelure.