8 Jul 2022 12:05 pm
By "bullet", I meant manufactured cartridges that combine the metal projectile with the metal casing containing the charge.Skans » 08 Jul 2022, 11:59 am » wrote: ↑ Wrong. Muskets do indeed shoot bullets. A lead ball is essentially a bullet, and it is fully capable of firing bullet-shaped projectiles as well. A blunderbuss is just a shotgun.
You know that, you are just being contentious.
The term used at the time was Minié ball.
The Minié ball or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle, for muzzleloader rifled muskets. It was invented in 1847 and came to prominence in the Crimean War[1] and the American Civil War, where it was found to inflict significantly more serious wounds than earlier round musket balls. Both the American Springfield Model 1861 and the British Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled muskets, the most common weapons used during the American Civil War, used the Minié ball.[2]
I am pretty sure than a person could find lead and make his own ammo. Lead is used as balancing weights for auto wheels and tires and is found in lead acid batteries.