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FW: Civil War Bullets



I ususlly just take a ball peen hammer and whack the
bullet a few times. If it doesn't go off then it's
pretty safe.  Don't try holding it with your fingers,
though.  I broke a thumb that way once.

Milton

>
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> Date sent:            Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:25:43 -0500
> Send reply to:        "Scott, Paul (FPM)"
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> From:                 "Scott, Paul (FPM)"
> <paul_scott@FPM.CO.HARRIS.TX.US>
> Subject:              FW: Civil War Bullets
> To:                   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>
> Let's quibble about black powder and related
> subjects for a while.
>
> I'm not as nearly as familiar with black powder as
> Kim, (but a lack of
> knowledge is no bar to submitting postings to this
> list).
>
> Recently, I did a bit of research on Civil War
> pistol cartridges and
> suspect that genuine Civil War cartridges (powder,
> ball, paper, and
> string) are rare and have enough intrinsic value to
> make a curator
> think twice about before deactivating one.  The
> Time-Life book on
> Confederate equipment includes an illustration of a
> particularly
> bedraggled pistol cartridge.  If that's the best
> example they could
> find, they must be rare indeed.  Also, as memory
> serves, the Union
> equipment book had no illustrations of pistol
> cartridges at all.
> Another book did have illustrations of packages of
> cartridges but it
> was published some 50 years ago and I wasn't sure if
> they were
> genuine
> Civil War ordnance.
>
> Also, I doubt that individual cartridges would be
> particularly
> dangerous (unless inserted into a weapon).  The
> powder would still be
> combustible but that would make it more of a fire
> hazard than anything
> else.
>
> Steve, before doing anything you can't undo, I
> suggest that you
> contact an antique firearms dealer or two and get
> their opinions.
> You'd better do it quick, however.  HR 1112, pending
> in the House of
> Representatives, would extend to antique weapons and
> replicas (and
> ammunition?) the same restrictions that are now in
> place for modern
> firearms.  Meaning that Kim and his fellows couldn't
> be hauling their
> Springfields across state lines to give living
> history demonstrations
> as he did last year in Fayetteville.
>
> Peter, I guess that it is now your turn to weigh in
> on this topic.
>
> Paul (no kin to Kim) Scott
> Records Management Officer
> Harris County, Texas
>

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