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	Corbin Bullet Swage Dies
		A lead bullet formed in a single die will have a shoulder between shank and nose, created because this kind of swage die uses a cavity shape in a punch to create the nose (and the edge of this punch must be of at least.015 inch thickness to avoid breakage).
		Bullets which have a smooth ogive, or curve, from shank to base (as in a bevel base)or from shank to nose (as in most jacketed handgun and rifle designs) are able to be made in the 3-die set (CSW-1, CS-1, and PF-1).
		ULD bullets are generally not suitable for "standard" twist rate rifles (such as the typical 1 turn in 14 inches to 1 turn in 12 inches), and may not be stable at all loadings in a 1 turn/10 inch barrel.
	www.corbins.com /bullets.htm (5058 words)

	Mass of a Bullet
		A jacketed bullet is also called an expanding bullet because when the jackets are stripped back to uncover the core, the metal jacket on both ends flattens out and stays inside the person creating internal damage when fired.
		Lead bullets cannot be used to shoot with high velocities because their soft exterior deforms during acceleration, which effects ballistics.
		Bullets get their name from the French word "boulette" which means "small ball", because early bullets were small and round.
	hypertextbook.com /facts/2000/ShantayArmstrong.shtml (535 words)

	The Minié rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1847, Captain Claude Etienne Minié of the Chasseurs d'Orléans had invented the blunt lead bullet; in 1849 he invented the rifle that was named after him.
		The rifle fired a conical bullet with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron.
		By the explosion of the charge the iron plug was driven further in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/crimea/minie.html (145 words)

	French
		This bullet was cylandrical with a hollow base in which resided an iron plug, when the rifle was discharged the plug helped expand the bullet skirts and it would effectively engage the rifling.
		Minie's bullet did not require the cumbersome pillar design and by 1849 his new rifles were influencing the world's arms industry.
		The french minie was termed the MLE 1853/54 rifle and came with three bands, finished bright or in bronze.
	www.geocities.com /milsurpunderground/French.html (1404 words)

	Weapons of the American Civil War
		The development of this half-inch lead rifle bullet revolutionized warfare, while the slowness of Civil War military leaders to adapt their tactics to adjust to the new technology was greatly responsible for the overwhelming number of battlefield deaths.
		It was the standard bullet for both sides in the Civil War, although neither anticipated the enormous difference this would make on the battlefield.
		The widespread use of the minie bullet, however, shifted the balance greatly to the defense's favor.
	www.civilwarhome.com /weapons.htm (1881 words)

	Corbin Bullet Swaging Lubed Lead Bullets
		A bullet with many thin or sharp edges, hollow cavities, hollow bases with thin skirts, or other areas where lead will be squeezed into sharply defined acute angles or thin sections, will be much harder to form than a bullet with gently rounded curves, and no thin sections to fill in.
		The disk rotates with the rifling, regardless of whether the body of the bullet skids or fails to turn in the rifling, and thus seals the bore against powder gas (unlike a gas check, which is crimped on the surface of the bullet and cannot turn separately from it while in the bore).
		Some commercial bullet makers use a spray to apply the lube as the bullets pass by on a track or rotary table of their own design, and then dust the damp bullets with a cloud of powder lube, resulting in a very even coating.
	www.corbins.com /lead.htm (4569 words)

	The University of Iowa Health Care: Exhibits Throughout the Hospital
		A projectile made from it, such as the minie, has a tendency to flatten upon impact and increase in surface area, causing great damage to life and limb.
		For extracting bullets and debris from wounded soldiers, surgical kits of the time were equipped with specialized forceps.
		Most bullets at the time did not travel fast enough to exit the body and thus had to be removed.
	www.uihealthcare.com /depts/medmuseum/wallexhibits/civilwar/bullet.html (233 words)

	About Minié Ball
		When the piece was fired, expanding gases entered the bullet's hollow base and forced it's outer side into the rifling of the barrel.
		With it's invention in 1849, it was quickly adopted by the U.S. It had a revolutionary effect on tactics by greatly improving the accuracy, range and rate of small arms fire.
		During the American Civil War, the Minié Ball became one of the most common types of rounds used by the U.S. However, Confederate forces used as many captured weapons and ammunition as possible and later produced the Minié Ball in huge numbers.
	www.minieball.com /about.html (165 words)

	What Is A Revolver?
		The bullet itself is also subject to modification; for while the general form is spherical, there are many other forms occasionally introduced.
		And in addition to the variations in the modes of rifling the bore, igniting the charge, and shaping the bullet, there are tough contests respecting the superiority of loading at the muzzle and loading at the breech - two modes which require very different arrangements near the lock of the gun.
		Each chamber, when its charge is fired, being in a right line with the barrel, the bullet passes through the latter as in an ordinary pistol; and the cylinder then traverses one-sixth of a circle, to attain the requisite position for the firing of another chamber.
	www.researchpress.co.uk /firearms/history/revolver.htm (2291 words)

	His army never fights
		The Minie ball, invented in 1849 by Capt. Claude Minie, revolutionized American warfare when the U.S. military adopted it in 1855.
		The Minie ball was shot from a rifle musket and was accurate at 500 yards, a great improvement over the round ball bullet, which was shot from a musket and accurate at only 50 yards.
		That bullet, and many others, rest in a printer's drawer that hangs on a wall in Masich's basement, a veritable war room of antique guns, swords, saddles, photos of Civil War re-enactors and, best of all, toy soldiers locked in perpetual battle.
	www.post-gazette.com /lifestyle/20021121toysoldiersLP2.asp (1185 words)

	Corbin Bullet Swage Dies
		A lead bullet formed in a single die will have a shoulder between shank and nose, created because this kind of swage die uses a cavity shape in a punch to create the nose (and the edge of this punch must be of at least.015 inch thickness to avoid breakage).
		Bullets which have a smooth ogive, or curve, from shank to base (as in a bevel base)or from shank to nose (as in most jacketed handgun and rifle designs) are able to be made in the 3-die set (CSW-1, CS-1, and PF-1).
		ULD bullets are generally not suitable for "standard" twist rate rifles (such as the typical 1 turn in 14 inches to 1 turn in 12 inches), and may not be stable at all loadings in a 1 turn/10 inch barrel.
	www.bulletswage.com /bullets.htm (5058 words)

	Bullet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original musket bullet was a spherical lead ball two sizes smaller than the bore, wrapped in a loosely fitting paper patch which formed a tight seal so the full pressure of the expanding gas would propel the bullet.
		It was nearly identical to the Greener bullet: as designed by Minié the bullet was conical in shape with a hollow cavity in the rear end, which was fitted with a little iron cap instead of a wooden plug.
		Another method of stabilization is for the center of mass of the bullet to be as far forward as practical as in the minnie ball or the shuttlecock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullet (2214 words)

	Minié ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Invented in the 1840s by the French Army captains Claude-Étienne Minié and Henri-Gustave Delvigne, it was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles: an innovation that brought in the use of the rifle as a mass battlefield weapon.
		As originally designed by Minie the bullet had a small iron plug in the base whose purpose was to drive forward under the pressure of powder gases to fill the hollow space and expand the lead skirting gripping the rifling.
		As adopted the bullet could be quickly removed from the paper cartridge with the gunpowder poured down the barrel and the bullet pressed past the muzzle rifling and any detritus from the prior shots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minie_ball (439 words)

	Rifle - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1835 W. Greener produced a new expansive bullet, an oval ball, a diameter and a half in length, with a flat end, perforated, in which a cast metallic taper plug was inserted.
		In 1851 a rifled musket of the Minie pattern was introduced into the British army, and, though not generally issued, was used in the Kaffir War of 1851, and in the Crimea.
		The respective average charges are: bullet, r 50 grains; powder, 5 o grains; 209 and 82; 270 and fro; 340 and 130; 520 and 160; the fixed-sight ranges, 130, 160, 150, 130 and 120 yds.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rifle (10968 words)

	Bullet - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Minie's shape, the Minie ball was used in the American Civil War where it proved to have a range three times as long as the conventional musket ball.
		The bullet used in the breech-loading Martini-Henry rifle, adopted by the British government in 1871 in succession to the Snider-Enfield rifle, weighed 480 grains, and was fired from an Eley-Boxer cartridge-case with a wad of wax lubrication at the base of the bullet.
		This bullet is lighter than the Lee-Enfield bullet (150 grains as against 215 grains), and when fired with a heavier charge of powder (51 grains as against 31 grains) gives, it is claimed, better results in muzzle-velocity, trajectory, deflexion from wind and wear and tear of rifling, than the present universally used cylinder-shaped bullet.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Bullet (2091 words)

	Bullet
		Minie's shape, the Mini ball was used in the American Civil War where it proved to have a range three times as long as the conventional musket ball.
		The bullet used in the breech-loading Martini-Henry rifle, adopted by the British government in 1871 in succession to the Snider-Enfield rifle, weighed 480 grains, and was fired from an Eley-Boxer cartridge-case with a wad of wax lubrication at the base of the bullet.
		This bullet is lighter than the Lee-Enfield bullet (150 grains as against 215 grains), and when fired with a heavier charge of powder (51 grains as against 31 grains) gives, it is claimed, better results in muzzle-velocity, trajectory, deflexion from wind and wear and tear of rifling, than the present universally used cylinder-shaped bullet.
	www.fastload.org /bu/Bullet.html (2061 words)

	RIFLE - Online Information article about RIFLE
		The form of its bullet was at first conoidal, afterwards changed to cylindro-conoidal, with a hemispherical iron cup.
		It fired a bullet of cylindro-conoidal form with hollow base, weighing 530 grains, made up into cartridges and lubricated as for the Minie rifle, adapted to this rifle by Pritchett, who was awarded £r000 by the Government.
		The pointed bullet (" Spitz-geschoss " or " S ") was introduced by Germany in 1905, and her example was quickly followed by France (balle D) and other powers.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/RIFLE.html (6059 words)

	Informat.io on Bullet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The term 'bullet' refers specifically to the metal slug that is propelled from a firearm via the mechanisms present in the cartridge within which it is contained.
		The next important change in the history of the rifle bullet occurred in 1883, when Major Rubin, director of the Swiss Laboratory at Thun, invented the small-calibre rifle, one of whose essential features was the employment of an elongated compound bullet, with a lead core in a copper envelope.
		Here, the bullet's shape is important for aerodynamics, as is the rotational forces imparted by the rifling.
	www.informat.io /?title=Bullet (2041 words)

	Barry'd Treasure Civil War Relics
		MM313 -.70 Caliber Austrian - This is a.70 caliber Austrian Minie.
		MM338 -.69 Caliber - This is a.69 caliber Minie for the Rifle Musket.
		MM456 -.577 CSA Minie - This is a Confederate.577 caliber minie for the rifled musket.
	www.iglou.com /btreasure/bullets.htm (1884 words)

	Bullets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		US Gardner Explosive bullet set - one.58 caliber Gardner Explosive bullet and another half one where the interior explosive chamber can be seen - bullets dug on the Chancellorsville Battlefield, Virginia - makes a great Civil War bullet display - complete Gardner has no defects and some of the letters are visible.
		Enfield bullet with rose wood plug attached in base - came out of an old bullet collection -.569 diameter and 1.031 length - plug appears to have been glued in.
		Dug Spencer carbine bullet with part of the shell casing still attached - dug in a Union cavalry camp in Kingston Georgia by Scott Howell.
	www.civilwaroutpost.com /Bullets.htm (2408 words)

	McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: PowerWeb Article
		The deadly effectiveness of the rifle-musket loaded with a minié bullet was largely to blame for the Civil War’s appalling casualty rates.
		The rifle-musket and minié bullet revolutionized warfare by drastically altering the tactical balance between an attacking army and a defending one.
		The cavalry was similarly ousted from its former role by the rifle-musket and minié ball.
	www.dushkin.com /olc/genarticle.mhtml?article=37023 (3677 words)

	February 1998 - Casting Bullets
		The hollow cavity in the base of the bullet expands under ignition pressure to firmly grasp the barrels' rifling, which permits the Minie Ball to be undersized for quicker, easier loading under combat conditions.
		Many bullet casters I have talked to complain that the sprue hole in their molds (the little hole you pour the lead through) is so small that it inhibits the flow of the lead.
		The ugliest sight on the firing line is the shooter who is forcing bullets down the barrel with both hands on the ramrod and the gun between his or her knees.
	www.civilwarguns.com /9803.html (1717 words)

	The .58 Caliber Minie Ball
		Above are two views of the.58 Minie ball that was the standard round for infantry rifled weapons during the Civil War.
		In the picture on the left, notice the concave base which allowed the expanding gas from the gunpowder charge to force the soft lead of the bullet into the grooves on the inside of the barrel.
		At ammunition factories greased.58 Minie's were wrapped in a paper cartridge that also contained 60 grains of fl musket-grade gunpowder.
	www.eclectichistorian.net /RifleMusket/Minies.html (195 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Weaponry \| Weaponry: The Rifle-Musket and the Minie Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It allowed the bullet to be cast a bit narrower than the bore's diameter to allow easy loading, since when the gun was fired, the pressure expanded the base to fit the barrel's rifling grooves tightly.
		The gun and bullet combination was still not practical for widespread military use; the rifle breech was very difficult to clean, and the metal post was prone to breaking.
		By the mid-1850s, the fully evolved minié bullet made it possible to build an infantry weapon as easy to load as the old smoothbore musket but with the accuracy and range of a rifle.
	www.historynet.com /wars_conflicts/weaponry/3036371.html?page=2&c=y (1374 words)

	Black powder barrels (Robert Bastow)
		It was very quickly determined that the wallop given to a plain bullet base..even a hardened lead bullet is sufficient to cause upsetting in the bore...Eliminating the occasional tendency of the Minie slug to shed all or part of its skirt..even for the base plug to blow right through the bullet.
		Thereafter the Minie has a definite edge..one reason being a reduced tendency to "drift" due to its rotation, and of course, because its better ballistic coefficient causes less velocity loss..the trajectory is flatter and less affected by side winds.
		At no time were the bullets "swaged into the rifling" during loading..that would have lead to difficult (Impossible) ramming and deformation of both the nose and the base of the bullet.
	yarchive.net /metal/black_powder_barrels.html (3565 words)

	Untitled Document
		Once located, the bullet was removed by one of several extractors shown in the next section on the "Bullet Extraction Set".
		The two minie bullets, for example, that struck John Bell Hood's leg at Chickamauga destroyed 5 inches of his upper thigh bone.
		The cynlidrical lead bullet, the Minie ball, was rather large and heavy (.58 caliber usually).
	home.nc.rr.com /fieldhospcsa/Amputating.html (1576 words)

	Glossary
		Bullets are labeled by what caliber gun they fit.
		Minie Bullet: The standard infantry bullet of the Civil War.
		When the rifle-musket was fired, expanding gas from the gunpowder blast was caught in the hollow base of the bullet forcing it against the rifled grooves inside the barrel.
	www.civilwarweapons.net /html/glossary.html (2988 words)

	Minie ball - TheBestLinks.com - Minie bullet, American Civil War, Ordnance, Claude-Etienne Minie, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Minie ball is a type of ordnance.
		This increased the diameter of the bullet such that it engaged the rifling that it had missed on the way down, causing it to spin, which greatly increased accuracy.
		In was more powerful (less leaking gas was wasted), more accurate (it engaged the rifleing well), and more lethal (since it was longer, and not limited to the mass of a simple sphere, it could be heavier) yet cost no more and added no extra steps to the loading process.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Minie_bullet.html (283 words)

	Across Five Aprils: Chapter 6: Minie Ball
		Perhaps 90% of all battle wounds sustained by either side during the American Civil War were caused by the projectile known as the Minie ball.
		In 15% of the cases where a soldier was struck by a Minie ball, the wound proved to be fatal.
		The paper cylinder, full of powder, was placed behind the bullet, and both were wrapped in paper, tied off at the bullet end and twisted at the powder end.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/minie6.html (370 words)

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