To: PeteB570; Anitius Severinus Boethius; mamelukesabre
A patched round ball does not have rifling marks - the marks are on the patch that drops off a short distance in front o the rifle My shot balls always had the rifling marks left by the patch.
81 posted on
12/20/2011 10:35:54 AM PST by
Uri’el-2012
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
So they would be patch marks not rifling marks.
Granted with a ball with little windage and a tight patch you could get an image of the rifling transfered to the ball but they would be depressions in the lead and not true rifling marks.
178 posted on
12/20/2011 1:41:52 PM PST by
PeteB570
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