High Impact Bullets! (And the Chewed Minieball Question)

DIRT DOBBER

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I've always been a fan of high/direct impact battlefield minieballs and though I've found many, and have a great collection of them, I rarely see them posted.

So common'! Lets see your best looking ones!

The first ones my favorite. I call it the 'Shoe'. The second, third, and fourth pics are my most perfectly square 'direct impact'.


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Also, join the very interesting chewed bullet question later In the thread!
 

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Nice collection , a good example of why they did so much more damage than the round ball!
HH
 
Here's a couple in this pic.
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Here's a few of mine recently dug.

Nice splatted MB bottom left! Love it!

Hey Fishin, I'd love to see a pic from the side of the one second from the left on the bottom row! Almost looks like a cannon! Same with second from left on the top row. Makes you wonder how they could splat at a severe angle like that. Serious ricochet!
 
View attachment 307274Good idea on a thread! Here's some not my best high impacts but a few...

Your middle one on the bottom looks like a hat! It mustve spun in the air to impact the rear of the MB! That is about the coolest one I've ever seen!

Funny how we get attached to strange things we find of no particular value or note....like shotgun shells, plain buttons, etc.......
 
Here's a few of mine.
 

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Direct Impacts

Here are a few of mine!
 

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how about a musket ball pancake. :D
 

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I used to get freaked out as a kid when I would find those, always made me think of what it possibly hit. I would keep all the drops, but left all those because all I could think of was some poor soldier died. I just couldnt even imagine fighting in that war.

great finds all, especially love the mid air collision one.


what is in the one in the middle of this pic, I had heard they would put small shot behind the miniball, but have never seen one lodged like that. Is that what it is?
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