File:Three lead musket balls (FOUS 2701) (c8cad91b-1dd8-b71b-0b92-f0bb08a6ce85).JPG

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English: Three lead musket balls (FOUS 2701)
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English: NPS photo
Title
English: Three lead musket balls (FOUS 2701)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
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Three lead musket balls.

Three lead musket balls of different calibers: .32, .38,and .41. How does one know which is which? Caliber refers to both the diameter of the ball and a gun’s barrel. The larger the ball, the larger its caliber and the diameter of the gun barrel it was used in. These musket balls are examples of buckshot that could have been used to hunt deer and black bear. The buckshot discovered during Fort Union’s archeological excavations ranged in size from .27” to .43” in diameter.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; national; historic; site; artifacts; trade; plains; indians; american; fous
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 6 January 2017
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c8cad91b-1dd8-b71b-0b92-f0bb08a6ce85
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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