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Musket ball and small shot identification : a guide / Daniel M. Sivilich ; foreword by David Gerald Orr ; introduction by Douglas D. Scott ; Appendix by Henry M. Miller.
LIBRA UF770 .S53 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sivilich, Daniel M., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bullets--Identification.
- Bullets.
- Shot (Pellets)--Identification.
- Shot (Pellets).
- Bullets--History--18th century.
- Firearms--United States--History--18th century.
- Firearms.
- History.
- Antiquities.
- Equipment and supplies.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Antiquities.
- Monmouth Battlefield State Park (N.J.)--Antiquities.
- Monmouth Battlefield State Park (N.J.).
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 190 pages ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- The gun and early projectiles
- The basic musket ball
- What did it hit?
- Musket balls with fabric impressions
- Musket balls altered to improve lethality
- Canister shot
- Chewed musket balls
- "Pewter" musket balls
- Musket balls altered for nonlethal use
- Small shot ... not just for the birds
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: The chronology of the early gun
- Appendix B: An analysis of marks on musket balls recovered from the Revolutionary War Battlefield of Monmouth, New Jersey, and comment on biological causes of shot deformation / by Henry M. Miller
- Appendix C: Classifications of small lead shot
- Appendix D: BRAVO.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806151588
- 0806151587
- OCLC:
- 919202310
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