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Old 12-07-2005 | 08:24 AM
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Black powder and patched roundball for hundreds of years.

Matchlock util themid 1600'sor so and then flintlock until the 1830-40'sand Patched Roundball up until theabout the1830-40's when the percussion cap & conical was developed for small arms.

The conical was more wide spread post the development of percussion ignitions and really adopted wide-spreadduring the civil war era.

The ball-et I think is a 19th century projectile and the sabot for ML's is certainly a 19th century projectile.


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