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Three Lead Musket Balls (FOUS 2701)

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.

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Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Code: FOUS

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