Civil War Minie Balls Explained
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Minie Ball? Miniball? Minnieball? What are they and what makes a bullet one of them? Join me on a short explanation of what an American Civil War Minie ball really is... and what it isn't.
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Civil War Minie Balls Explained
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Thanks Beau for the lesson on the Civil War bullets.
Beau you are the Ambassador for this sport. Or the Badassador!
More videos like this one. This was awesome. Great history lesson. Thanks
With the exception of the Williams Cleaner type III muzzle loaded bullet with Zinc base as far as breach loaded. But still not a Miníe ball. Nice vid. Thanks for the lesson.
I might have done better in school if I had teachers like you! ha ha! Super smart and super interesting!
That room is awesome so many artifacts and history in one place.
Interesting, thanks for the video. You would make an excellent teacher, you bring such enthusiasm.
Totally awesome & helpful videos Chig! I'm looking forward to the next one. Could you do one showing what the whole cartridges looked like? I'm having trouble picturing what the paper bit looked like. Thanks for all your wonderful videos & best wishes to you!
+Aquachigger great video my friend..
i live in Gettysburg and found a 58 minie ball on the battlefield when i was younger. i still have it and it is nearly perfect with a small dent on the tip and slightly deformed end it is mostly metallic in color and not caked with very much white stuff. in fact i was rolling it around in my hand as i was watching this video. i dont have much shooting experience but i want to get into flintlock muzzle loaders. ive always very much liked the styles of these rifles and always thought it would be cool to own one that actually works such as something form Tennessee valley muzzleloading. i will say though im am so much better with ghost sights than those standard iron sights.
really enjoyed that... thanks for information:)
Your right about the Minnie' balls . Nice lead !!! Very interesting video Beau thanks for posting this.
The projectile immediately following the French Minn'e ball isn't a breach loading round. It's a Lorenz compression bullet.
When it's fired that lead plug at the base is pushed into the rest of the bullet, causing it to engage the lands and grooves in the rifling.
And the smooth sided ball is in fact British but isn't called an enfield ball, it was called a Pritchett ball, after its inventor (whose name escapes me at the moment) for the British army for use in the Enfield rifle musket in the Crimean war.
It was undersized (.56.6) so that fouling from extended firing wouldn't prevent quick reloading. To enable the lead skirt to engage the rifling, a plug was placed in the base of the bullet.
Originally it was a small iron cup but that caused issues with the soft lead ball so a boxwood plug was used which worked quite well.
Thank you sir for your wonderful videos! You have a new subscriber
I have a friend that has hunted civil war relics for years and has an amazing collection. Those things did some terrible damage when they hit a person. The shattered bones was the reason so many lost limbs.
Another great video, I am leaning more about different civil war things then I have read about
thanks for the information . I was always wondered what was the difference between the bullets. And after the war was the 20 25 lever rifle invented to fight the indians.
You are the best! keep giving a few more videos on information on more of the finds you have on the wall.
Thanks chigg, I'll never dig a civil war bullet, but it was cool to learn! Thanks man!
fron Colombia, Cartagena of Indias, thanks.
Very enjoyable Beau, I hope you keep this kind of video coming. This minutia really brings to life what was going on with the people involved in the conflict; stuff rarely explained in Civil War history.
you learn a lot when you are studying the bullets or the cases from the battlefield...
Thanks for pointing out the distinctive characteristics of the round. So, .69cal, .58cal, .54cal 3-groove, hollow base, " Min-Nee-AY" rounds were equally lethal. That's what we're good at - killing each other.
Good video. Thanks....
I've heard for years how devastating the minie ball was. I had no idea the munition was that large as compared to the 223/5.56 round.
The Why of Minie Balls Explained-
Regular patched round balls, and solid bullets had to be rammed down a barrel; slowing things down. The hollow base of the Minies allowed them to be slightly undersized; allowing them to more easily slide down the barrel. But when fired, the propellant gases filled the hollow cavity expanding the bullet, so that it could now fill the rifling grooves, and spin out of the barrel.
That would be false. The original Minnie balls were undersized because the British made it so you rammed the paper cartridge around the ball with ball itself down the barrel. The wood or clay plug in the base of the ball would be used to expand the base the Minnie ball to catch the rifling. Not the gases. James Burton of the United States did the research to not use a plug in the base, but he also designed the conical ball to be loaded with out the paper wrapping around it.
I really enjoy watching your civil war videos. You make it easy to understand and enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work!
Beau, Now I know why the " bullet " is called a minnie ball. Thanks, great stuff!
Hey chig, Team N.P.A.R here. It would be great if you did a informational on reading the land for homestead and old property mental detecting in the forest. I could help out a lot of people. SWEET DIGGING!
Been waiting to come across this exact video I know you would have done one and I’ve been trying to work out the differences for ages haha thank you
The advancement of bullets is a fascinating history and of course it took 500 years to just come up with something as simple as rifling.
great video, Love your collection room.
Great series, cannon balls and bullets..what a great adventure into Civil War weaponary!!
Funny.Was wishing I knew more about breech and muzzle loaders.Had never heard the terms before so I was going to look them up when you said,Let's do another video.
Excellent class, sir.
Thank you for the info....could you do a segment on the cleaner bullets I see posted by civil war relic hunters. Have always been curious about those.
Happy Hunting buddy!!
Very informative video. Thanks.
Thank you for the great video.I found it to be quite educational, as I have never found anything here except modern bullets.
Groovy man. Nice info Beau.
Yes sir! I would love a video about the differences between the types of muzzle and breach loading bullets! Thank you for the information!!
looks like your in a museum. very nice.
Very interesting. Great vid. Thanks.
Well explained. Thanks
I honesty think Beau would be a great choice for a Discovery/History Channel show.
I Agree, Beau has an untouchable collection that museums would kill to have.
Excellent, got the lead out!
Thanks for using that 5,56 cartridge as a size comparison and pointer.
Thanks! I thought it was a .243!
Thanks for the info Chig. Very educational, love your vids.
yeah I was waiting for a long time that is so cool I made a video of diging up something I don't know what it is
I have to ask, how many of the bullets were in use after the civil war and for how long.
Some of your finds may be from many years after the civil war.
I realise the lead oxides (patina) may be a clue.
It's like the European finds of Roman coins, they may have been lost 500 years after the Romans left.
Don't worry chig. I'm just as immature and laughed when you said "balls" :P
Thanks for the lesson 🙂
Great subject for a video Beau and well presented. ..Excellent!
I like how you use a .556 (or .223) as a pointer. Nice touch.
Cool thanks for the lesson!
Good lesson.
Great info. Thanks.
the 575 minies were used in the 577 Enfields the 1855 the 1862 Richmond the 1861 Springfield and contact rifles the 1863 zouaves the 1854 Lorenz and the .535 minie was used in the 1841 Mississippi rifle !
You know what I thought I'd never find? A 1950 50 Pfenning German coin in Oregon next to an apple tree! No Idea unless I dropped it. Live bullet pointer, ka-blooie!
Very nice, love the info. Was nice how you said you don't have a lot of bullets, when we look over your shoulder at the walls and shelves around you I beg to differ. Very impressive collection. Keep up that Great job, I look forward to your videos. Thanks
How can you tell the difference between the round musket ball and "grape shot"?
Yo Beau, Nice lesson...cheers,G:)
Interesting information thanks for that.
technical historical fantastic thank you
really enjoy these informative videos, thank you. You would have made a great history teacher!
Awesome, thanks Chigg, now I wont feel stupid anymore hahahahaha
Just watched a movie called-The Retrieval (2013)-Netflix-really got me to thinking about all your explanations and tips on what to look for when detecting! Every time I seen a campsite or creek...I could go on and on...You are making great videos,so was letting ya know...Your a great inspiration to a newbie!!!
He knows stuff!!!
Very interesting enjoyed the video 👍
Fascinating and great info. Thanks, Chig!
Thank you so much. I have been finding copper cartridge shells measuring .58 inch in the Nevada desert and have been trying to find out what this unusually large size was.
Mk. 0:57 Awesome! No matter how old we get, all guy's have their Limit: How many times can I say the word "Balls" before I laugh?" Nice to see this remains a default Guy Humour setting!
Very cool vid and thank you! Well earned Like and New Sub!
PS: Balls! (or Bollocks!)
Great video Beau, I found it very interesting as I tend to find Musket Balls only. Look forward to the next one ref types of Guns etc....... Cheers Owen......... :-)
I can't wait for the next video in the series!
love these videos more plz
Great video, love learning more information about history so interesting.
Very informative, keep vids like this coming.
0:53 Priceless
EquipmentReviewer why?
Right on :)
Excellent video. Very informative. And very helpful. many thanks from THE CB SHOP OF COLEBROOK NH.
owner Tom W
Really interesting.I love learning new things
Chig do a video on kayak scuba diving
Very interesting. Thanks for the lesson of the day.
Awsome! I was wondering why they were called "mini" ball (the way I thought it was spelled because it was pronounced that way) when they look nothing like a "ball". That was very educational. Thank you for the history lesson.
Definitely cool
Would love to see your collection in detail sometime (via video, of course). Excellent video. Thanks for the education.
that explains alot
Cool! I had no clue there was so much to civil war rifle ammunition. I would like to see a video on pistol ammo, I know there were a lot of innovations to pistols during that time.
Great video thanks👍
great info....ty
Thanks for the explanation.
5:58 "Ringtail Sharps"..... your favorite Civil War bullet!
Check the base cavity on civil war bullets, some have markings in them. I dug a 3 ringer and a buddy noticed a star in the cavity. Some have a CS and other markings.
Thanks for the info. I just found a 3 groove minie ball that has a solid base. I will see if you have another video explaining how that round was used .
Can you give a tour to your relic room. would be nice and special.
Thanks - that was interesting....
When detecting, what do these bullets show as on your standard detector. Seems like they would ring in the 'gold' range if they are made of lead, but I've seen folks say they ring high on the VDI. Thanks!
Very interesting pointer. lol. hopefully you don't get a boom boom out of that live shell. lol. lol.
well it's about time some one had the balls to do this.....
hey beau. nice video. quick question. have you ever found anything in your garden which is valuable? I've seen you've got a huge garden
I was going to ask about the difference between breach loaders and muzzle loaders. But I won't because you are going to do another video on that! Thanks! Great stuff!!!! I wonder how many different kinds of bullets were actually used during the Civil War? Could a 54 cal miniball be fired in a 69 caliber rifle or did they need new rifles for those balls? Just wondering...
sir, as usual you have not disappointed you fans.. I do have a question.. What do you do for work or is this it?.. good job..
You should do a video about Whitworth rifles, Williams Cleaner bullets and Parrot shells.
Good idea.
@@aquachigger I grew up next to the New Market Battlefield as a kid. I now live in Mount Jackson. I've never found a bullet but it's on my bucket list before I check out of here. Good to see some of your videos from my area. I dig the channel 👍
Holly shit that bullets fucking big dude!
What would be the equivalent size of a 12 gauge 3" Mag Foster Slug vs a Minnie ball. What is the closest size of a Minnie ball to a Foster slug of the before mentioned?