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Re: Steel Balls Rock Crusher ?
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Posted by supergrumpy on August 08, 2006 at 12:11:23 from (72.43.220.239):
In Reply to: Steel Balls Rock Crusher ? posted by Nebraska Cowman on August 08, 2006 at 10:18:08:
DIAMETER: 3.57 inches GUN: 6-pounder smoothbore, 3.67-inch caliber LENGTH: - WEIGHT: 6 pounds 5 ounces CONSTRUCTION: Solid shot FUZING: None This was the most common 6-pounder (3.67-inch caliber) smoothbore projectile used by both Federal and Confederate forces. According to Gibbon's The Artillerist's Manual, "...that a 6 or 12-pound ball will go through six men at 800 yards' distance." Gibbon also states that "...solid shot is of very little effect upon earthen parapets, unless it passes through, in which case it soon knocks them down. At 600 yards, shot from field-guns will penetrate from 5 to 6 1/2 feet into newly thrown-up earth."
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