identifying musket balls

[Redmarrow]

Hi

Does anyone have any experience in identifying musket balls?

I have so many sizes now!

Also old bullets in general, is there a ref book?

thanks

[craig090uk]

Ive also wonderd about the id of musket balls. I have a lot of friends who shoot and they tell be shot can be queit big balls. I asked whats the biggest size shot and one guy said a single ball 12 bore size for putting cattle down ect,

[Nailman]

I know from doing a archaeological dig on a civil war site that the old matchlock muskets where not all the same calibre unlike today's standard sized bullits.
So a gun made in say London would be a different calibre to one made in York.
This ment the troops used to make their own musket balls using moulds, no doubt someone decided to make a standard size presumably once mass production of guns became the norm.
Every time I find one I think was it fired from a military weapon or someone trying for a Rabbit for the pot.

[Fusion]

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[Danzigman]

Dont know if this help much, but I use to weigh mine.. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_(bore_diameter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)