GDG- Rifled Musket Characteristics?

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/21/06 5:20:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
cameron2 at optonline.net writes:

> I don't have my copy handy, but with all the experimentation going on - 
> everyone and his uncle who could invent a new bullet or anything else doing 
> their best to get the government to buy it - it's entirely possible.
> 

I have just sent a correction to my original post; it seems that I, er, 
misspoke slightly.  Dean Thomas's book gives numerous examples of "improved" 
bullets (including those that exploded or at least separated into multiple pieces) 
for use in rifled muskets and of ingenious cartridges (including some with the 
powder pressed into a solid mass attached directly to the base of the bullet). 


Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT