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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 1846 shortly followed by the Minié rifle , the Minié ball came to prominence during the Crimean War [ 1 ] and the American Civil War where it was found to inflict significantly more serious wounds ...
The Pattern 1851 Minié rifle was in use by the British Army from 1851 to 1855. 34,000 were made under the formal name of Regulation Minié rifle. [2] [3] The rifle was .702 caliber with the intent that in emergency it could fire musket balls. [4] [5] In practice it was found that only about 12 could be fired before it became impossible to ...
Claude-Etienne Minié (13 February 1804 – 14 December 1879) was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin.
Muzzleloading firearms generally use round balls, cylindrical conical projectiles, and shot charges. In some types of rifles firing round ball, a lubricated patch (see Kentucky rifle) of fabric is wrapped around a ball which is slightly smaller than the barrel diameter. In other types of round ball firing rifles, a ramrod and hammer is used to ...
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.
To keep the ball in place once the weapon was loaded, it would be partially wrapped in a small piece of cloth. [61] However, the smaller ball could move within the barrel as the musket was fired, decreasing the accuracy of musket fire [62] (it was complained that it took a man's weight in lead musket balls to kill him). [63]
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 developed when rifled barrels were introduced by the 1740ies, which offered higher accuracy than the earlier smooth
Springfield Model 1861 rifle musket Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket. A rifled musket, rifle musket, or rifle-musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. . Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels replaced with rifl