A museum in the UK has a Lee Enfield .303 rifle from WW1, which has a split barrel containing a .303 bullet on its way out, and German bullet which entered the muzzle at the instant the rifle was fired. The resulting over-pressure split the barrel.
@@donoghue666 Imperial War Museum. If you google "Lee Enfield rifle with German bullet in barrel" you will find it, - but you're probably happier to just sit on your couch and be a keyboard- warrior/judge, rubbishing real information that you choose not to believe.
Gives you an idea of how devastating wars / battles can be. How many bullets were flying through the air from both sides. Thank God for brave American soldiers, willing to stand and deliver freedom to us with their blood for the entire history of the USA.
My dad has a civil war bullet that has been flattened by human molars. It was dug up at the site where the Gettysburg field hospital was. Truly a “bite the bullet” relic
@@JonBrownShermanmaybe if u had to have a leg amputated or arm all they had to give u was whiskey if u were lucky before they did operations they'd place a wooden spoon branch or I guess even a bullet as to not bite ur tounge. Then in the next moments you'd have to cowboy up and then some with the infection rate and lack of hygiene maybe you might make it if u had a good doctor
@@JonBrownShermanwhen they performed surgery on the field, they would give you something to bite for the pain, otherwise you risk biting off your own tongue as you scream and writhe in agony. You’d probably still die anyways, they sure as hell weren’t washing their hands lol.
You don't have any idea what happened to the men that fired those bullets. There were 1400 casualties at that battle out of 32,000 troops involved. I'd say there's a pretty good chance they made it.
While this is rare, it’s not unheard of, the World War One museum in Kansas City has several examples of this in one of their exhibits and I remember watching a documentary of a D-Day veteran telling a story of how two bullets collided near his face and dropped at his feet, he turned the fused bullets into a pennant and wore them around his neck for luck for the rest of his life.
I don't even think it's that rare for the civil war. There is an estimate that the armies had over 1 billion rounds throughout the war and considering how close to each other they had to be before firing, bullets colliding or ricocheting isn't that rare. Gettysburg museum had a bunch of those when I went there 30 years ago and they were still pulling bullets from the dirt back then.
Well duhhhh. Lol because you can't find what hasn't happened so first you have the rare odds of it happening. Even if they happened all the time like 99% of shots hit head on (obvi dont) point is the odds would STILL be lower to find them even if it was a normal thing to happen in the first place
Two bullets hitting each other like this is one in a trillion. I'm no expert but if I had to guess the two shooters had to be a good distance apart because I think at close range the energy imparted would just make the bullets splatter
For the confused, I'll try to make it simple......OP is correct because the insanely rare thing must happen first before factoring in the chance to find it. So if there was just a 1% chance of not being able to find it, it technically makes finding one more rare. Let's say it's happened 100 times in history, your chances are to only find 99 of them if 1% won't be found. 100>99
They likely did, I mean, in alabama the battles there weren’t very savage. Hey, I mean, if something like that can happen, then it was probably intended that both of them go straight home, but obviously anything can happen in a war.
I hope everyone knows that this is not what happens when two bullets collide. Multiple experts have done extensive tests with multiple rifles/bullets from this era. It’s fake. It’s been proven to be fake.
@@19Burgandy no I mean it seems like, if God intervened, then they would have survived the whole war. This is not based off of logic. It was simply my speculation which I intentionally wrote in a confusing manner. And that’s why I wrote ‘then it was probably intended for both of them to go home’.
@@19Burgandy but, I can also say that in a battle with hundreds of thousands of flying bullets, then the impossibility of two bullets colliding into each other is definitely lowered by about half.
I live in the south near a lot of confederate areas and on our property many years ago my great grandfather found a Union bullet lodged in a tree that was being cut down, he cut the wood chunk out and we still have the bullet lodged in the piece of wood on display.
That piece of wood represents perfectly why the various stares seceded and why so many young southern men (most who owned no slaves) fought. When asked why they said "Because you're down here." They viewed it as an invasion.
My little son had the eyes of an eagle ( still does). He brought many Minie balls to me, and his prize find was a rim fire cartridge as big as my little finger. We lived directly in the path of Sterling Price's retreat. A cannon was found down a well about 100 yards from the house. My uncle plowed up a box of silver coins, which the state of Missouri confiscated. And the rim fire cartridge? My child accidentally dropped it into an open freezer display at a grocery store and cried so hard that the store manager and a couple of employees DISMANTLED the entire unit to retrieve the cartridge, God bless them.
@@CalvinLee606 it was a 3 ring minie ball bullet which was standard amongst the Union and I was told that the direction it was facing when found in the tree indicated that it would have come from the Union side as well.
I've visited a man's house in Spanish Fort who has hundreds, if not thousands of civil war relics he dug from his property there, swords, to bullets, to coats, to cannon balls, grape shot, everything.
It makes me wonder what else is around in europe... I saw a video a bit back some guys found a Russian? Fighter plane and the guy was still in there and some of his stuff was still manageable to read (some how) (I kinda feel like the situation was made up they found papers in tact and legible and the dude crashed in a swamp, the pistol they found didn't look like it'd been in a swamp for 70 some years.) But I guess it goes to show how much stuff gets buried in time. Soooo many wars have been fought in europe/Asia. It's gotta be a metal detectors wet dream
@@jlo7770 swamps/bogs have zero oxygen, so nothing tends to deteriorate in them. They have found bodies that are thousands of years old in them with skin and hair still intact!
@@muddrudder2656 You would butt-stroke me Sir? Good luck closing the distance past the pointy end of my long rifle. Tally Ho! I'm a practiced butt-stroker and a midnight toker. I do my killin in the sun.
What's really rare and not talked about much is that right next to those bullets were found to bayonets one Southern and one Northern manufacturing style and they were completely welded together tip to tip! Looks like 2 civil war veterans decided to play a little prank on the relic hunters of the future!
Reminds me of a friend in Afghanistan. Turns the corner on patrol to see a guy with an AK just about to turn the corner. He raises - *click* Guy raises - *click* He discharges his 40mm smoke garnade. Smokey.
I like the fact that you cant just get a quick second to fully examine the piece. All the camera moving, scene changing really is the heart of the video.
And the one camera close-up was of the "example" bullets, not the ones flattened together. It reminds me of the modern internet saying "the camera operator only had one job...".
Yeah well all they had were single shot rifles, once you shoot it what are you gonna do? That's why they had picnics on the battlefields, something for the soldiers to do on break😂
That is Steve Phillips. He’s one of the owners of Souther Skin Divers Supply. They’ve been around for decades. He’s a good guy. Nice family. His home is nothing but a civil war museum. He tracked down his ancestor’s civil war musket. Has it displayed above his mantle.
@@eboogie6158 what makes them traitors? This country is founded upon freedom, yes? Even today, a state can secede from the Union, though it will get struck down by congress. The idea that a group that wants to separate itself from what it views as tyranny and set up its own government is what started the country we now know today.
For the bullets to hit each other they had to be literally aiming right at each other's head... If either one of them was off even slightly.. In case someone isn't a bright lightbulb. If one of them was off even a little, this relic wouldn't exist and one of them would have a hole in their skull.
If you look around on the internet you can find where like tank cartridges and tank projectiles have hit each other in mid-air and bullets going through like the sides of other bullets where they've hit in like a perpendicular fashion. Do you imagine how many bolts are flying back and forth to have several hundred examples of stuff like this
@@Paul-k1t Because the battle didn't just end when they shot at each other lmfao. It's not like an airsoft fight or something where someone's mom goes onto the porch and says lunch time and everything stops. The battle kept going
@@370enjoyer That's not technically true. They have the probability that war doesn't stop the second something rare and cool happens most times. As well as the fact that this stuff is really loud and they likely wouldn't have noticed, like another said. They have more probability for them not having stopped than them stopping.
Probably the Rebels ran out of ammo or passed out from starvation by this point... Those Southern guys were hardcore. They fought long past the point where it made a bit of sense because that's who they were. Even growing up in Maine, that was always made very clear. In a war between hard men, the Confederates were even harder men than our guys. They were just up against a merciless, industrial war machine that they couldn't quite understand.
@@ianmedford4855 The civil war was the victory of the capitalist system and its moneymaking machine. Very different than the garbage taught in schools.
I love the way you see this ending. That they both got to go home. That's the ending all soldiers strive for when they enter into situations like this. No soldier ever enters a conflict and goes home thinking that they won't go home. Sadly some don't go home. But thankfully others do. You've got the right perspective friend. Thank you from this soldier.
"They both got to go home." I can appreciate a man who decided that reality doesn't get a vote in anything that makes him happy. I wanna be more like him.
An average shooter could hit targets at up to 250-300 yards with rifles of the day. Well trained soldier's were accurate up to ~800 yards. Sharpshooter could hit most targets inside 1k yard. Rifles of the day werent unreliable as many think. They came a long way in the decades prior.
The guys talking like it was a duel, forgetting there were entire companies of men shooting and beating each other to death in the most violent way imaginable! One or none, we will never know.
That's a fact..... It would be impossible to even try to imagine the horror and unbelievable carnage that went down between these forces ..... Don't care whichaway you were from... The men who fought in this war were, by any stretch of imagination, were nothing but badass.... I think all and every soldier, should be appreciated for their commitment.....
@@michaelgreene2920 I agree 1000%! I grew up in North Florida, in Duval and baker county. Our family would visit the Olustee battlefield in Sanderson during the reenactment, it was a neat experience!
@@hansemmen3862 I heard that about the reenactment... They also have them in a small town a couple miles down the road from where I live.... I love to watch people jump when they fire off the Canon's... They will literally jump a foot off the ground, even when they know that they are fixxin to fire them off.... You can't help it, it's a reflex that just happens..... Doesn't matter if you are young or old.... It gets them all..... I can't even imagine what it would be like to have had listened to those canon firing and fighting for your life at the same time..... They were very brave on both sides.....
Priceless! You can tell those two bullets are the focal point in his entire collection and who ever inherits those bullets will probably sell it for a few hundred dollars with no care how much it meant to their grandparent. It happens all the time.
There was a foot trail going across the bay right above the causeway from Mobile to Blakely Island, the fighting was around Blakely Island. There's all kind of civil war artifacts around there and dauphin island.
You’ve got to take a day to go visit Blakely State Park! It’s just a few miles up 225 from the Rouse’s in Spanish Fort. Walk around the battlefields. Get a feel for life in the 1860’s. There’s a lot of amazing things to learn, many of them, pretty disturbing. But this stuff DID happen, right here in our back yard.
They built houses over civil war trenches that were still in the woods? What damn shame man. I'm suprised nobody put it on the protected historic registry.
@@CocoKickz94 should have been, but it was private property When old man Fuller died his sons sold off the property. It's the site of the last battle of the Civil War and was fought after the surrender. If you look up Purvis Road in Spanish Fort you'll see a pin for Bill Purvis Contracting. All that land around that is my mothers family land for the past 100 years. As family died off my uncle was able to buy the land to keep it in the family. But the trenches were around what is now General Canby Drive. There's a statue to commemorate the Negro Troops that fought there
@@CocoKickz94hell they have paved over entire cemetaries of confederate dead. This is the only country in the "free" world that has so much so self hatred and so little respect for its history. It is rewritten and erased daily.
In his world, they did, for sure. With his age, he created his own story, a true creator. That level of thinking has brought him to his ripe age, happily. He built his life around his story. That's faith. IYKYK
I have 1 that I found in my great grandfather's field in Virginia, and have several that were stuck in trees and we chopped out the chuck of wood with them in it! And there's still so much to be found!
My uncle Eddie Fri was the president of the metal detecting club and they found lots & lots of interesting artifacts right there around Spanish Fort and all over the place. He gave my son 5 fired in anger from this battle mounted on a plaque. He was a great guy.
Guess Jack and Charlie talked a lot after the war about they where trying to shoot one another but they both hit eightother bullets😂. They both probably died near seconds this happens and nobody of those army's ever knew this happend even the two soldiers who did this don't know. Was not like guys stop shooting Jack and Charlie did something cool let's look for the bullet they shot.😂 but its a nice story he also could say this was a sign north and south went together or something like that.
I live less than 10 mins away from there and have probably walked over the exact spot that this artifact was dug from !!! The Eastern Shore is such a rich area as far as history is concerned !!!
It is the only known one from the civil war. But there are more from other wars. I've seen one from WW1. Edit: I was confirming your statement, not trying to invalidate it. Realized how that read.
I am saying you COULD use your gun as a shield...but this story... 🐂 💩 though it is, is talking about round striking round and fusing with each other wich is a total different race...and again a total 🐂 💩 story 😊
What at all do you mean ? It's totally authentic! I'm sure that they must have a certificate of authenticity from the Bradford exchange! For just three easy payments of $19.95 +shipping and handling, we will send you your own collided bullets from any war fought on this planet , since they first started using firearms! This is a very special addition for your collection! This offer is only available for the next thirty minutes, so order now!
Right across the north end of mobile bay from my hometown, mobile Ala... the battle of mobile bay and the seige of blakely... Those miniballs are from blakely.. the battleground was everywhere.. and now alot of homes are built where combat took place.... This is awesome!!!!
I have a partial cannon ball fragment from Artillery Ridge, found while looking for survey monuments. It has been a trusted and reliable door stop for about 15 years now.
it just shows you how many shots were being fired in that war, for the odds of that happening are so low that it takes A LOT of firing for that to happen, and be found hundreds of years later.
My friends and I were playing in the woods of VA when we were about 8 or 9. One day while walking on a trail, I spotted what looked to be a bullet on the ground. I remember picking it up and taking a close look at it. Unimpressed, I threw it as far as I could back into the woods. It wasn't until years later when I learned about the civil war did I realize I had held a minié ball.
I have an old book on military weaponry, and they cited a study of the guns picked up from the Gettysburg battlefield. Many of them had misfired, and yet been reloaded multiple times with several charges and bullets (balls?). I think the most found crammed down a barrel was 6 or so. In the panic of that battle, and with all the smoke and noise, it was assumed that many soldiers didn't even realize that their weapon had not fired... so, they loaded again... and again...
When you think about how many bullets were in the air at the same time from opposite sides of a battle, it would make sense for some of them to have hit each other in mid-air
Two bullets collided in mid air at Gettysburg , shows how many bullets were flying , the two bullets can now be seen in the museum at West Point . Amazing anyone could survive !!!
When I was a kid I always wondered if two bullets hit in midair in WW1, but thought it'd be impossible to ever know without time travel and supercomputers. Turns out there's multiple examples of "fused" bullets in museums around the world.
That was just one Volley. I think the odds that they could actually see & aim at each other through the thick cloud of sulfur smoke from all the rifles & artillery constantly firing is slim. So unfortunately chances are that they both probably didn't get to go home... Or at least not with all their limbs. *....But still, that is one really interesting artifact! Thank you for sharing that beautiful piece of history with the world!*
I've heard of this piece. And its one heck of a situation to have taken place. This just shows in the midst of actul war that the universe is tryin to tell us something much more important and can intervene to make a very very serious point.
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They both got to go home? Whoever reloaded faster got to go home.
They likely both were casualties
If they were that close it probably ended with bayonets
Odds are, neither of them went home.
Bingo! Plus there were a ton of other guy shooting at them , the man in the video’s acting like it was just the two of them having a duel😂
Hilarious comment
A museum in the UK has a Lee Enfield .303 rifle from WW1, which has a split barrel containing a .303 bullet on its way out, and German bullet which entered the muzzle at the instant the rifle was fired. The resulting over-pressure split the barrel.
which museum is this? sounds nonsense haha
@donoghue666 lmperial war museum. If you bother to Google it you will find it, rather than simply offering cynical opinions based on nothing.
@donoghue666 If 2 bullets can collide head on in mid-air, why would one traveling down the barrel of his enemy's weapon be "nonsense?"
@@donoghue666 Imperial War Museum. If you google "Lee Enfield rifle with German bullet in barrel" you will find it, - but you're probably happier to just sit on your couch and be a keyboard- warrior/judge, rubbishing real information that you choose not to believe.
Gives you an idea of how devastating wars / battles can be. How many bullets were flying through the air from both sides.
Thank God for brave American soldiers, willing to stand and deliver freedom to us with their blood for the entire history of the USA.
“They both got to go home”
Yea, I bet that’s EXACTLY how that turned out lmao
😂🤣🤣🤣
"I like that story"
Casualties in that particular battle were damn low
Well boys pack it up, we both missed
well theres actually a rule in war where if two enemy bullets hit each other spot on, you can both excuse yourself from the battle and go home!
My dad has a civil war bullet that has been flattened by human molars. It was dug up at the site where the Gettysburg field hospital was. Truly a “bite the bullet” relic
What the hell are you talking about?
Could u imagine being a surgeon then?
@@JonBrownShermanmaybe if u had to have a leg amputated or arm all they had to give u was whiskey if u were lucky before they did operations they'd place a wooden spoon branch or I guess even a bullet as to not bite ur tounge. Then in the next moments you'd have to cowboy up and then some with the infection rate and lack of hygiene maybe you might make it if u had a good doctor
Was he a professional? Or relic hunter?
@@JonBrownShermanwhen they performed surgery on the field, they would give you something to bite for the pain, otherwise you risk biting off your own tongue as you scream and writhe in agony. You’d probably still die anyways, they sure as hell weren’t washing their hands lol.
Crazy fact. They probably didn't make it home...
How you know. How ? I like this story better than yours
@@stanpoanolee9452you enjoy fantasy. Most believe in reality.
Carry on!
@@stanpoanolee9452and that’s the problem with history
You can't call something a fact, then use the word "probably" in a support statement.
You don't have any idea what happened to the men that fired those bullets. There were 1400 casualties at that battle out of 32,000 troops involved. I'd say there's a pretty good chance they made it.
While this is rare, it’s not unheard of, the World War One museum in Kansas City has several examples of this in one of their exhibits and I remember watching a documentary of a D-Day veteran telling a story of how two bullets collided near his face and dropped at his feet, he turned the fused bullets into a pennant and wore them around his neck for luck for the rest of his life.
I don't even think it's that rare for the civil war. There is an estimate that the armies had over 1 billion rounds throughout the war and considering how close to each other they had to be before firing, bullets colliding or ricocheting isn't that rare. Gettysburg museum had a bunch of those when I went there 30 years ago and they were still pulling bullets from the dirt back then.
😂😂😂 Way to piss on this guys parade.
@@ripelcannon in the civil war they didn’t have to be that close. They were using rifles. That’s one of the reasons so many died.
@@Grunttamer the average range between the armies was less than a football field...
@@ripelcannon you could say that the average range was any number of things because the doctrine at the time was to charge….
The odds of finding them is lower than the odds of it happening.
@@draconis9766
Yeah, good point. We find important things all the time.
Well duhhhh. Lol because you can't find what hasn't happened so first you have the rare odds of it happening. Even if they happened all the time like 99% of shots hit head on (obvi dont) point is the odds would STILL be lower to find them even if it was a normal thing to happen in the first place
Two bullets hitting each other like this is one in a trillion. I'm no expert but if I had to guess the two shooters had to be a good distance apart because I think at close range the energy imparted would just make the bullets splatter
@@draconis9766 pretty good doesn't reverse the chances.... re tard
For the confused, I'll try to make it simple......OP is correct because the insanely rare thing must happen first before factoring in the chance to find it. So if there was just a 1% chance of not being able to find it, it technically makes finding one more rare. Let's say it's happened 100 times in history, your chances are to only find 99 of them if 1% won't be found. 100>99
“They both got to go home”
That’s assuming quite a lot 😂
They likely did, I mean, in alabama the battles there weren’t very savage. Hey, I mean, if something like that can happen, then it was probably intended that both of them go straight home, but obviously anything can happen in a war.
I hope everyone knows that this is not what happens when two bullets collide. Multiple experts have done extensive tests with multiple rifles/bullets from this era. It’s fake. It’s been proven to be fake.
@@GenericUA-camGuydude your not smart all say that.. they easily could have died not survived
@@19Burgandy no I mean it seems like, if God intervened, then they would have survived the whole war. This is not based off of logic. It was simply my speculation which I intentionally wrote in a confusing manner. And that’s why I wrote ‘then it was probably intended for both of them to go home’.
@@19Burgandy but, I can also say that in a battle with hundreds of thousands of flying bullets, then the impossibility of two bullets colliding into each other is definitely lowered by about half.
I live in the south near a lot of confederate areas and on our property many years ago my great grandfather found a Union bullet lodged in a tree that was being cut down, he cut the wood chunk out and we still have the bullet lodged in the piece of wood on display.
That piece of wood represents perfectly why the various stares seceded and why so many young southern men (most who owned no slaves) fought. When asked why they said "Because you're down here." They viewed it as an invasion.
My little son had the eyes of an eagle ( still does). He brought many Minie balls to me, and his prize find was a rim fire cartridge as big as my little finger. We lived directly in the path of Sterling Price's retreat. A cannon was found down a well about 100 yards from the house. My uncle plowed up a box of silver coins, which the state of Missouri confiscated. And the rim fire cartridge? My child accidentally dropped it into an open freezer display at a grocery store and cried so hard that the store manager and a couple of employees DISMANTLED the entire unit to retrieve the cartridge, God bless them.
Rimfires are rare bro. I hope he keeps that for the rest of his life 👍
How do you know if it’s a union bullet?
@@CalvinLee606 it was a 3 ring minie ball bullet which was standard amongst the Union and I was told that the direction it was facing when found in the tree indicated that it would have come from the Union side as well.
I've visited a man's house in Spanish Fort who has hundreds, if not thousands of civil war relics he dug from his property there, swords, to bullets, to coats, to cannon balls, grape shot, everything.
Grape shot is absolutely terrifying.
@@Phearsumonly when loaded into a cannon. Until then, it’s just heavy ass big little metal balls 🫣😂
It makes me wonder what else is around in europe... I saw a video a bit back some guys found a Russian? Fighter plane and the guy was still in there and some of his stuff was still manageable to read (some how) (I kinda feel like the situation was made up they found papers in tact and legible and the dude crashed in a swamp, the pistol they found didn't look like it'd been in a swamp for 70 some years.) But I guess it goes to show how much stuff gets buried in time.
Soooo many wars have been fought in europe/Asia. It's gotta be a metal detectors wet dream
@@jlo7770 swamps/bogs have zero oxygen, so nothing tends to deteriorate in them. They have found bodies that are thousands of years old in them with skin and hair still intact!
@@maeve4686 it was so amazing, although some of them were still live.... lol
Y: click
C:click
“guess it’s knives then..”
Your bayonet wasn't already fixed?
Shame.
Prepare to die Sir!
@daviswhite3591 not if I club you with the stock first! Lol
@@muddrudder2656
You would butt-stroke me Sir?
Good luck closing the distance past the pointy end of my long rifle.
Tally Ho!
I'm a practiced butt-stroker and a midnight toker.
I do my killin in the sun.
What's really rare and not talked about much is that right next to those bullets were found to bayonets one Southern and one Northern manufacturing style and they were completely welded together tip to tip! Looks like 2 civil war veterans decided to play a little prank on the relic hunters of the future!
Reminds me of a friend in Afghanistan.
Turns the corner on patrol to see a guy with an AK just about to turn the corner.
He raises - *click*
Guy raises - *click*
He discharges his 40mm smoke garnade.
Smokey.
I grew up in Spanish Fort and still live up the road .
There are still the trenches in Spanish Fort neighborhood. We used to play Civil War on them.
How often did kids complain about playing the Yankee side?
Lol... some days we would fight over it. Nobody wanted to be the Yankees down here 😆
@@justin6354 I wish we played that up north instead of cowboys and Indians.
Randomly find a video and a commenter about a place right around the corner from me. Still go to church in Spanish Fort.
@@Keranuno cowboys and Indians is better cause cowboys always win
I like the fact that you cant just get a quick second to fully examine the piece. All the camera moving, scene changing really is the heart of the video.
And the one camera close-up was of the "example" bullets, not the ones flattened together. It reminds me of the modern internet saying "the camera operator only had one job...".
There's 2 Bullets that fused together like that at the Antietam Battlefield Museum in Maryland. Very Cool.
Each man took his shot then said, "Whelp, guess I'll call it a day." and went back home safely and unperturbed of the whole ordeal and drank some tea.
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Yeah well all they had were single shot rifles, once you shoot it what are you gonna do? That's why they had picnics on the battlefields, something for the soldiers to do on break😂
@@DroneBeeStrike you reload and fire 😂 you're not getting paid for your service, to sit around and count dandelions.
That is Steve Phillips. He’s one of the owners of Souther Skin Divers Supply. They’ve been around for decades. He’s a good guy. Nice family. His home is nothing but a civil war museum. He tracked down his ancestor’s civil war musket. Has it displayed above his mantle.
Who would want to remember those traitors?
@@eboogie6158 one could make the same argument for the colonists. They were considered traitors to the crown.
@@eboogie6158 what makes them traitors? This country is founded upon freedom, yes? Even today, a state can secede from the Union, though it will get struck down by congress. The idea that a group that wants to separate itself from what it views as tyranny and set up its own government is what started the country we now know today.
Exactly, founded upon freedom. Which makes their slavery the worst treachery. @@thewanderingheathen
@@Riplee find me a nation that never took slaves.
I don't know about go home but they damn sure miss their shot
Or nailed it…. “John wick, Cival War” comes out November 11th
Their aims were true, both of them.
For the bullets to hit each other they had to be literally aiming right at each other's head... If either one of them was off even slightly..
In case someone isn't a bright lightbulb. If one of them was off even a little, this relic wouldn't exist and one of them would have a hole in their skull.
Looks dead on to me
They were probably confused as hell since they both knew they were aiming at each other but when the smoked cleared they were still standing.
I like how he makes his own story up. They both got to go home as if neither of them pulled the trigger a second time.
bwahahaha yeah with those banana clips they had
No. ,250 at least
@@stephenfresh1754they didn't have banana clips. Yer comment is be kinda stroopit.
/Nose touching /
He's happy. Are we?
If you look around on the internet you can find where like tank cartridges and tank projectiles have hit each other in mid-air and bullets going through like the sides of other bullets where they've hit in like a perpendicular fashion. Do you imagine how many bolts are flying back and forth to have several hundred examples of stuff like this
Tanks…. Tanks….. didn’t… exist back then……
“And they both got to go home” enough to make a grown man cry, also neither of them probably made it home
As a southerner I agree
@scottbivins4758 why not? The majority who served survived. Many died, but even more lived.
The deadliest war for America ever. Brother fighting brothers, all just because taxes and tarrifs
@@Paul-k1t Because the battle didn't just end when they shot at each other lmfao. It's not like an airsoft fight or something where someone's mom goes onto the porch and says lunch time and everything stops. The battle kept going
"they both got to go home".... Wishful thinking 😂 i doubt they stopped shooting after the bullets hit
I mean you have as much evidence as he does
@@370enjoyernot really,. Considering no one probably knew the bullets made perfect contact to begin with
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That's not technically true. They have the probability that war doesn't stop the second something rare and cool happens most times. As well as the fact that this stuff is really loud and they likely wouldn't have noticed, like another said. They have more probability for them not having stopped than them stopping.
Probably the Rebels ran out of ammo or passed out from starvation by this point...
Those Southern guys were hardcore. They fought long past the point where it made a bit of sense because that's who they were.
Even growing up in Maine, that was always made very clear. In a war between hard men, the Confederates were even harder men than our guys. They were just up against a merciless, industrial war machine that they couldn't quite understand.
@@ianmedford4855 The civil war was the victory of the capitalist system and its moneymaking machine. Very different than the garbage taught in schools.
“Remember - switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.”
Yup but you can switch only so many times a pistol
soldiers rarely had a pistol, that was for officers. Only the ones that could afford their own would’ve had one.
@@megastick9324 whoosh
@@vcrbetamax I guess so.
@@megastick9324 If you see a comment in quotes, just google it. It can tell you the reference.
I love the way you see this ending. That they both got to go home. That's the ending all soldiers strive for when they enter into situations like this. No soldier ever enters a conflict and goes home thinking that they won't go home. Sadly some don't go home. But thankfully others do. You've got the right perspective friend. Thank you from this soldier.
"They both got to go home."
I can appreciate a man who decided that reality doesn't get a vote in anything that makes him happy. I wanna be more like him.
I’m happy that the North and the South came together. United we stand, divided we fall. GOD Bless anyone who’s reading this. You’re friend from NJ
🤠😉🏴kinda...sorta...Bubba.
From ohio hope we can keep it together with the decisive politics the way they are. 🇺🇸
Thanks brother from respect from Philadelphia
@@IZotit Since when? Yall are still watched as you walk amongst the good old boys. 😉🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🤠
@@Workerbee-zy5nx since you caught me 6” deep in Your mother
Proof of how much lead was flying that day, given the accuracy of the rifles of the time
An average shooter could hit targets at up to 250-300 yards with rifles of the day. Well trained soldier's were accurate up to ~800 yards. Sharpshooter could hit most targets inside 1k yard. Rifles of the day werent unreliable as many think. They came a long way in the decades prior.
People shoot a lot of bullets during a war? Thanks for telling us that, professor......
Rifles in the 1800s where very accurate
@funny3scene the second rifling was used they became much more accurate,
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about if you don't think their rifles were accurate 😂
These weren't smooth bored muskets my bro
Same at Gettysburg the volley was so thick they hit mid air , amazing
The man understands beauty, that is for sure.
Thats a cool story and definitely a very cool relic to have.. wow..
The guys talking like it was a duel, forgetting there were entire companies of men shooting and beating each other to death in the most violent way imaginable! One or none, we will never know.
That's a fact..... It would be impossible to even try to imagine the horror and unbelievable carnage that went down between these forces ..... Don't care whichaway you were from... The men who fought in this war were, by any stretch of imagination, were nothing but badass.... I think all and every soldier, should be appreciated for their commitment.....
@@michaelgreene2920 I agree 1000%! I grew up in North Florida, in Duval and baker county. Our family would visit the Olustee battlefield in Sanderson during the reenactment, it was a neat experience!
@@hansemmen3862 I heard that about the reenactment... They also have them in a small town a couple miles down the road from where I live.... I love to watch people jump when they fire off the Canon's... They will literally jump a foot off the ground, even when they know that they are fixxin to fire them off.... You can't help it, it's a reflex that just happens..... Doesn't matter if you are young or old.... It gets them all..... I can't even imagine what it would be like to have had listened to those canon firing and fighting for your life at the same time..... They were very brave on both sides.....
Entire regiments
That’s Crazy…. What an Amazing find
It's fake.
You are fake@@DontarrestmePLZ
Pinch of salt required
I’ve seen the same example of this at Petersburg National battlefield park in their museum.
Crazy that humans have shot each other enough times for this to be statistically possible.
And the smart ass award goes to that’s right you sir. Statistically speaking.
"And if you'll buy that, I'll throw the Golden Gate in free."
Pondering the odds of such a bullet impacting another bullet like this. Mind boggling.
Two bullets from the Gallipoli campaign were found on the battlefield in the shape of a cross.
Yea, when your tactics are standing in a line 50 yards from each other and firing at each other in volleys, it's not that mind boggling.
Priceless! You can tell those two bullets are the focal point in his entire collection and who ever inherits those bullets will probably sell it for a few hundred dollars with no care how much it meant to their grandparent. It happens all the time.
Maybe it’ll go to someone that’ll appreciate it then.
If somebody sells it, it'll go for a lot more than "a few hundred".
That didn’t mean they went home.!!! That means there was so many bullets flying that there was no way of goin home
Thats awesome, i didnt know that came from spanish fort. I live in daphne and never hear of this artifact coming from here.
I Said the same thing.. lake forest here :)
My dad was from spanish fort i miss going there every summer. He moved from there to clarksville tn to join army at fort campbell ✌️
From over in bayou la batre ,do you know about the battle of mobile bay? The first time submersible was used in battle . Pretty cool history
There was a foot trail going across the bay right above the causeway from Mobile to Blakely Island, the fighting was around Blakely Island. There's all kind of civil war artifacts around there and dauphin island.
@@richardlong9189 I heald a bayonet found at fort gains dauphin island and dude I know that had it lost it somehow
Man.........that is a one in a Million
Shot! How awesome is it to find that artifact. 🎸❤️
Yeah really the best part of the story is how noone got injured by these specific two bullets.
I live 5 mins from there.. never heard of this.. pretty cool
You’ve got to take a day to go visit Blakely State Park! It’s just a few miles up 225 from the Rouse’s in Spanish Fort. Walk around the battlefields. Get a feel for life in the 1860’s. There’s a lot of amazing things to learn, many of them, pretty disturbing. But this stuff DID happen, right here in our back yard.
I have a bullet that looks exactly like those! Not the fused bullet, but one of the brown clay-ish ones used as a reference in the display.
Bullets fires from dead men. They will never know how significant their shots would become as pieces of military history.
I admire his optimism, but we all know the odds are they didn't get to go home.
Taking a knife to that gun fight probably saved your life!
Probably found in the trenches in the woods I played in as a kid.
It's all a housing development now
They built houses over civil war trenches that were still in the woods? What damn shame man. I'm suprised nobody put it on the protected historic registry.
@@CocoKickz94 should have been, but it was private property
When old man Fuller died his sons sold off the property.
It's the site of the last battle of the Civil War and was fought after the surrender.
If you look up Purvis Road in Spanish Fort you'll see a pin for Bill Purvis Contracting.
All that land around that is my mothers family land for the past 100 years.
As family died off my uncle was able to buy the land to keep it in the family.
But the trenches were around what is now General Canby Drive.
There's a statue to commemorate the Negro Troops that fought there
@@CocoKickz94sadly Spanish fort estates
@@CocoKickz94hell they have paved over entire cemetaries of confederate dead.
This is the only country in the "free" world that has so much so self hatred and so little respect for its history.
It is rewritten and erased daily.
@@CocoKickz94 I think someone has to buy up the land to preserve it for that very purpose.
How does he know for certain that they both got to go home?
because its a made up story.....
He doesnt know and he cant know.
He doesn’t know. Nobody knows. I doubt the men that shot those bullets even know. But imagining they got to go home isn’t all that bad.
In his world, they did, for sure. With his age, he created his own story, a true creator. That level of thinking has brought him to his ripe age, happily. He built his life around his story. That's faith. IYKYK
@@americanfirst913think of all the new chores to be done though
That probably wasn't all that rare, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of infantry firing at each other all at once.
There are dozens of examples out there.
I have 1 that I found in my great grandfather's field in Virginia, and have several that were stuck in trees and we chopped out the chuck of wood with them in it! And there's still so much to be found!
BANG!! "...Shucks, well, I guess we both get to go home."
My uncle Eddie Fri was the president of the metal detecting club and they found lots & lots of interesting artifacts right there around Spanish Fort and all over the place. He gave my son 5 fired in anger from this battle mounted on a plaque. He was a great guy.
How do you know "they both got to go home"?
Guess Jack and Charlie talked a lot after the war about they where trying to shoot one another but they both hit eightother bullets😂.
They both probably died near seconds this happens and nobody of those army's ever knew this happend even the two soldiers who did this don't know. Was not like guys stop shooting Jack and Charlie did something cool let's look for the bullet they shot.😂 but its a nice story he also could say this was a sign north and south went together or something like that.
"and they both got to go home" is a line to live by
I live less than 10 mins away from there and have probably walked over the exact spot that this artifact was dug from !!! The Eastern Shore is such a rich area as far as history is concerned !!!
That has to be a one of a kind find. Congrats. The History on those Bullets very cool and amazing. Take Care
It is the only known one from the civil war. But there are more from other wars. I've seen one from WW1.
Edit: I was confirming your statement, not trying to invalidate it. Realized how that read.
Thats so sweet. Little did he know both men reloaded and continued to fire for another 2 hours before both dieing of dysentery.
Glad Someone was there to see these bullets collide together 😅😅
There was technically a lot of people there. Alive and unalived by said bullets
It's true. I was one of the bullets.
Show that to everybody who says a gun can't be thought of as a shield
I am saying you COULD use your gun as a shield...but this story... 🐂 💩 though it is, is talking about round striking round and fusing with each other wich is a total different race...and again a total 🐂 💩 story 😊
Fake…just like a Jackalope
It was found in the skeleton of a jackalope
What at all do you mean ? It's totally authentic! I'm sure that they must have a certificate of authenticity from the Bradford exchange!
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Imagine the sound it made. Spinning so fast
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I haven’t seen this artifact in a while.
Always was such an incredible freak occurrence. Very neat stuff!
Or they died from another round
Just because their bullets hit, doesn't mean they went home man, because bullets were flying everywhere.
Right across the north end of mobile bay from my hometown, mobile Ala... the battle of mobile bay and the seige of blakely...
Those miniballs are from blakely.. the battleground was everywhere.. and now alot of homes are built where combat took place....
This is awesome!!!!
The odds of that happening coupled with the odds of finding the two bullets is insane
Wow. That’s worth more than a single award but at least a decade of awards and then a few more!!
That's a beautiful pincle, may all the children learn to use it to communicate for every generation remaining ❤
Love History…just don’t want to repeat it…🙏
I've dug bullets. But nothing like that. Awesome display as well. God bless you
“They both got to go home. So I like this story” incredible!
I have a partial cannon ball fragment from Artillery Ridge, found while looking for survey monuments. It has been a trusted and reliable door stop for about 15 years now.
I like that story too. They both got to go home. I certainly hope so!
Cool how passionate this old-timer is
it just shows you how many shots were being fired in that war, for the odds of that happening are so low that it takes A LOT of firing for that to happen, and be found hundreds of years later.
There is almost an exact same exhibit in the museum at Gettysburg. The rounds collided at more of an angle but still hit eachother midair.
I saw one of these at the Gettysburg battlefield museum. It happened. There was a ton of bullets flying around.
My friends and I were playing in the woods of VA when we were about 8 or 9. One day while walking on a trail, I spotted what looked to be a bullet on the ground. I remember picking it up and taking a close look at it. Unimpressed, I threw it as far as I could back into the woods. It wasn't until years later when I learned about the civil war did I realize I had held a minié ball.
I have an old book on military weaponry, and they cited a study of the guns picked up from the Gettysburg battlefield. Many of them had misfired, and yet been reloaded multiple times with several charges and bullets (balls?). I think the most found crammed down a barrel was 6 or so.
In the panic of that battle, and with all the smoke and noise, it was assumed that many soldiers didn't even realize that their weapon had not fired... so, they loaded again... and again...
One of the best artifacts in general IMO
dardenelles, turkey. such artifacts are all over the place. thanks UK.
When you think about how many bullets were in the air at the same time from opposite sides of a battle, it would make sense for some of them to have hit each other in mid-air
Two bullets collided in mid air at Gettysburg , shows how many bullets were flying , the two bullets can now be seen in the museum at West Point . Amazing anyone could survive !!!
you have zero possible way of EVER knowing if EITHER of them made it home buddy.
That is amazing! I very much like the story as well. Thank you for sharing.
Switching to your buddy’s knife is always faster than finding a loaded musket
The best way for the universe to say "Stop killing one another, you are brothers and sisters!"
I'd love to see this museum. I love history.
Reminds me of those two bullets that collided in World War 1 on display on a museum too.
When I was a kid I always wondered if two bullets hit in midair in WW1, but thought it'd be impossible to ever know without time travel and supercomputers. Turns out there's multiple examples of "fused" bullets in museums around the world.
Yup they both threw down their weapons, tuned around and went home 😂
Amazing. The poetry of that piece
That was just one Volley. I think the odds that they could actually see & aim at each other through the thick cloud of sulfur smoke from all the rifles & artillery constantly firing is slim. So unfortunately chances are that they both probably didn't get to go home... Or at least not with all their limbs.
*....But still, that is one really interesting artifact! Thank you for sharing that beautiful piece of history with the world!*
I live a few minutes away from Spanish fort, and have found some pretty cool stuff there as well, but that's pretty incredible
According to the museum at Gettysburg (which has a pair on display), these were a common find after the battle.
WOW amazing History behind it and incredible accuracy 😮
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I have a WW2 mauser round stuck in a russion coin. May or may not have been done on purpose but it was dug up and a cool find
“They both got to go home.”
I didn’t realize in war that combatants only fire one shot and call it a day.
“Both got to go home” LOL THATS A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS!
I've heard of this piece. And its one heck of a situation to have taken place. This just shows in the midst of actul war that the universe is tryin to tell us something much more important and can intervene to make a very very serious point.
Nice WWII collection as well on the wall.