Pin Fired Bullets

chukers

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I posted this find a while back and it just didn't seem to get noticed amongst all the other finds I found that day... so I am reposting it for that reason and for the reason I don't see other people post other pinfired cartridges...

Why is that?
Have you found one?

They seem to be a well used cartridge as this site suggests...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinfire

Anyone else have comments on it?


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Heat45, i may be wrong but i think u r thinking of a different type of shell.
 

buzzgator said:
Heat45, i may be wrong but i think u r thinking of a different type of shell.

Oh!. Old "pin fire" ammo may refer to actual combat munitions that fired by the cartridge being struck. This would be very old, phased out before any miniature replicas were even thought of. I didn't think of that. Today, the word pinfire usually refers to those mini scale guns.
 

Nice find chuckers! Heat45, sorry for the confusion I thought the post was about a civil war era pin fired cartrige. My bad...
 

I have found quite a few of them.They occasionally pop up on here.They were not wildly popular though
 

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