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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #20 on: December 18, 2010, 07:52:36 PM »

Check #553 in McKee-Mason.

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #21 on: December 30, 2010, 12:04:20 PM »

The Brunswick rifle, adopted in 1837 by the British military, used a belted ball.

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #22 on: December 30, 2010, 12:23:41 PM »

Johnnn, I think the folks saying Brunswick rifle are onto something. Take a look at the drawing on the "girdled" bullet and how it would fit in the twin spirals

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #23 on: December 30, 2010, 01:58:34 PM »

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #24 on: December 30, 2010, 04:56:01 PM »

Wow! Always nice to learn something new! I'd have thought that
a belted ball like that would jam more easily, but considering I didn't
even know such a design existed...

Very cool...

Johnnn, do your musket balls measure out to about the
right calibre for the Brunswick?

Hope everyone had a great holiday, and has a great start to 2011!

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #25 on: December 30, 2010, 08:40:56 PM »

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #26 on: January 09, 2011, 10:19:24 AM »

Belted Balls. If they are 70 cal, they are probably from a Brunswick .

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #27 on: March 25, 2012, 03:42:52 PM »

Yes, not very common. I bet I have found musket balls in 200 different places and only one gave up belted balls.

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #28 on: March 26, 2012, 06:45:46 PM »

I think they are Brunswick type balls according to the link ....HH...Johnnn

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	Re: Strange musket balls. « Reply #29 on: March 27, 2012, 04:17:28 PM »

That's definitely what they are. Belted balls from the Brunswick rifle or one other gun which I can't recall the name of. If they were as valuable as they are rare to dig I would definitely go back to the shoreline I found mine.

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