GDG- Weapon Trajectory

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In a message dated 7/19/2007 3:47:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cameron2 at optonline.net writes:

Projectile weight.  An elongated minie ball type projectile is a  good deal 
heavier than a round ball of equal diameter.    




Actually, the nominal weight of a typical Minie ball was 500 grains, only  
about 10 percent above that of the standard round ball for a US Army musket (463 
 grains, if I remember rightly).  The big difference is in the normal powder  
charge: 65 grains for a rifle-musket and 110 grains for a smoothbore.
 
 
Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT



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