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musket balls


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  • musket ball

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Balls or pellets, usually of lead, used as projectiles in muzzle-loaded long guns known as muskets. Musket cartridges consisted of black powder, and a ball, wrapped in paper. This was then torn open and manually pushed into the barrel of the musket for firing.

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