Muzzle-loading rifle
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A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech. Historically they were develo
A 6.3 inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle loader in the forecastle of HMS Gannet (1878)
The reloading mechanism onboard HMS Inflexible.
Lepage silex gun dite du Premier Consul circa 1800
Canon de montagne de 4 modele 1859 Le Petulant
Minié ball
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The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié for muzzle-loaded, rifled muskets. Invented in 1849 shortly followed by the Minié rifle, the Minié ball
Various types of Minié balls. The four on the right are provided with Tamisier ball grooves for holding grease.
James H. Burton's 1855 Minié ball design (.58 caliber, 500 grains) from the Harpers Ferry Armory
Gunshot fracture of the left femur by a Minié ball, 1863
Private Milton E. Wallen of Company C, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, wounded by a Minié ball, while in prison at Richmond, July 4, 1863, being treated for gangrene