✅ SOLVED ID for Minie Ball

[Hunk-a-lead]

Looking for help with exact ID for this Civil War era Minie Ball. Thanks in advance!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Hope This Helps!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Definitely a yankee Merrill Carbine bullet.

BTW, technically it isn't a Minie-ball, because it lacks a base-cavity large enough to expand outward into the gunbarrel's rifling-grooves.

It's okay that it doesn't have the expanding base-cavity, because the Merrill was a breechloading rifle, and thus the bullet didn't need to expand into the rifling.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

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Big time thanks Terry! Really appreciate that

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Definitely a yankee Merrill Carbine bullet.

BTW, technically it isn't a Minie-ball, because it lacks a base-cavity large enough to expand outward into the gunbarrel's rifling-grooves.

It's okay that it doesn't have the expanding base-cavity, because the Merrill was a breechloading rifle, and thus the bullet didn't need to expand into the rifling.

As always, thanks so much for the detailed ID. You are the man!