UncleBourbon
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- Sep 4, 2019
- Location
- Massachusetts
Years ago when I was younger my grandfather gave me five projectiles he found on the fields of a Civil War battlefield.
The name of the battlefield escapes me after all this time, as does the State, but what doesn't was his and my interest in one of the five projectiles. Other than the two are rifle bullet and revolver balls, there was what seemed like a massive musket ball with a curious hole through it that I now recognize as most likely being canister shot.
I still remember he said what I was thinking, "Imagine what that'd do if it hit a person with that hole in the center"
I've thought on it off and on for years, and recently have been able to identify it almost certainly as canister shot, however the origins of the hole still escape me.
If it was something it struck, what could it have hit that would core out just it's center?
Pictures bellow. I've also included the other four projectiles for scale.
In these two images showing the different sides, it can be seen the hole is different sizes on either end, which again makes me think it struck something.
Either that or if it was made into a "dumdum" round, it was done so in a very crude way.
A side angle showing deformity, again making me think the coring was from a hit.
If anyone has any ideas on the general origins of the hole, either what it could have struck or if it was an "expanding bullet" canister shot, I'd be very interested to hear.
The name of the battlefield escapes me after all this time, as does the State, but what doesn't was his and my interest in one of the five projectiles. Other than the two are rifle bullet and revolver balls, there was what seemed like a massive musket ball with a curious hole through it that I now recognize as most likely being canister shot.
I still remember he said what I was thinking, "Imagine what that'd do if it hit a person with that hole in the center"
I've thought on it off and on for years, and recently have been able to identify it almost certainly as canister shot, however the origins of the hole still escape me.
If it was something it struck, what could it have hit that would core out just it's center?
Pictures bellow. I've also included the other four projectiles for scale.
In these two images showing the different sides, it can be seen the hole is different sizes on either end, which again makes me think it struck something.
Either that or if it was made into a "dumdum" round, it was done so in a very crude way.
A side angle showing deformity, again making me think the coring was from a hit.
If anyone has any ideas on the general origins of the hole, either what it could have struck or if it was an "expanding bullet" canister shot, I'd be very interested to hear.