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island911 08-14-2014 10:05 AM

Bing, DuckDuckGo.... lot's of search engines out there for when Google is broken. :cool:

Bullet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hugh R 08-14-2014 01:55 PM

Two words: Depleted Uranium

Hugh R 08-14-2014 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyl (Post 8213446)
Why do black powder rifle fire round balls? Is it just an accident of history, or is that shape actually optimal?

My wild, unsubstantiated guess is ease of manufacturing, a simple round mold that you'd scoop molten lead into, hold for a few seconds and release. No rifling, so no spin issues, I"m guessing that hadn't been invented yet.


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