✅ SOLVED anybody ever seen this pattern on a fired ball?

[Older The Better]

i found this ball today and i noticed the fabric like pattern in the lead, anybody know why this is? is it from the wad or is from impacting cloth?

 

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[l.cutler]

Could be from the cloth patch used when the round ball was fired, I doubt striking cloth would leave the imprint. The other side of the ball appears to be the side that impacted.

 

[BosnMate]

A properly fitted, patched, pure lead, soft (because it's pure lead) round ball, when used for a bullet in a muzzleloading firearm, will many times, when fired, leave an imprint of the patch on the soft lead ball. It's not from striking cloth, it's the lubricated cloth patch that is around the ball, between the lead and the powder.

 

[flyadive]

I also have a cloth pattern on a round ball! That explains it for me ! I’ve been wondering about that for years !Thanks guys!

 

[Older The Better]

great thanks for the info, i don't know enough about muskets to know if it was possible for a patch to do that in the firing process... now i know. thanks again

 

[Bonzododa71]

The ball in the pic is impacted against something soft as it is misshapen, possibly the intended target this is not from the cloth/wad applied to the ball for sealing it snugly in the rifle.
I have a few thousand 1812 ball and NONE of them has an imprint from fabric....HH.....Bonz

 

[l.cutler]

If those are military musket balls from the war of 1812 they would not have patch imprints as military muskets were fired with a bare ball, not a patched ball.