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To: lentulusgracchus
But they could have melted and recast the lead.
19 posted on 02/12/2004 7:12:09 AM PST by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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To: Pharmboy
But they could have melted and recast the lead.

Assuming they got it all back......how likely is that? Moreso if they used copper balls, like the Mexicans did, much less so if they used lead. That ball would have had to strike nothing but soft tissue on every hit, not to have been badly deformed and fragmented.

Occam's razor.

21 posted on 02/12/2004 7:19:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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