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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:49 pm
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I need to know for my fiction writing work. I've got this idea that a sword and sorcery fantasy world (the magic level is very high, to the point where your average commoner owns multiple magic items) advanced to the point where firearms have been invented and brought into common use, and for that I need to know exactly what happens when a musket ball (say a lead .75 inch, which sounds about right for the 18th century) strikes a human body.
Furthermore, I had the idea that if there is all this magic around, perhaps it could be used to improve the muskets a bit. Perhaps it could magically seal the breach, allowing a hatch there to be lifted for rapid loading and then shut securely against escaping pressure. I also had the idea of some sort of spell that makes gunpowder clump it into a solid brick that can be manufactured in pre-measured charges. Add in percussion cap tech (with the cap impedded in the powder charge), and loading becomes even quicker. Finally, if these weapons are being loaded from the breach, rifling becomes pracrical, as a tight fit for the ball can be easily made, what with ramming the round down the barrel not being a concern. What kind of accuracy could be expected from a rifled musket firing cylindricle lead ammunition?
Finally, what is the difference in explosive power between black and smokeless powder? I'm debating making smokeless power common instead of black powder.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:48 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:06 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:45 pm
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Lead ball rounds don't have a point. They don't penetrate. They punch. They punch at mach one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_5Yo0Etzc
Quote: Finally, if these weapons are being loaded from the breach, rifling becomes pracrical, as a tight fit for the ball can be easily made, what with ramming the round down the barrel not being a concern. The problem with rifling was twofold: One, it's hard to make. Two, a man can only afford one weapon, and it's hard to shoot ducks in flight with a rifle, but it's easy to shoot deer with a shotgun. It doesn't make it hard to punch the bullet down the barrel, not if you're using the correct-sized round UNLIKE ME HURR DURR.
Quote: What kind of accuracy could be expected from a rifled musket firing cylindricle lead ammunition? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IGPQ7KaMY&feature=related
Half that spread for minie ball and you're close enough.
Quote: Finally, what is the difference in explosive power between black and smokeless powder? I'm debating making smokeless power common instead of black powder. Black powder is illegal to own in quantities greater than one pound without building a "magazine" to store them in, as it's classified as a low explosive. And by "magazine" I mean "bomb shelter". This is what the ATF uses as an example. You have to sign a form when you buy it so that the ATF can track sales. You can buy smokeless powder by the truckload and nobody gives a s**t.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:15 am
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:27 am
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:59 pm
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Fresnel Das Rabble Rouser Black powder is also somewhat unstable from what I hear and it doesn't have a shelf life anywhere near what you can get out of smokeless. Yeah, it tends to suck moisture out of the air and go all inert and clumpy. Thank god for Arizona. Also, if your house lights on fire, a pound keg of black powder will do a surprising amount of damage. I've got mine stored against the exterior wall, and I don't doubt it'd blow a hole through it. Yeah but think how much more damage smokeless would do. razz
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:08 pm
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Das Rabble Rouser Fresnel Das Rabble Rouser Black powder is also somewhat unstable from what I hear and it doesn't have a shelf life anywhere near what you can get out of smokeless. Yeah, it tends to suck moisture out of the air and go all inert and clumpy. Thank god for Arizona. Also, if your house lights on fire, a pound keg of black powder will do a surprising amount of damage. I've got mine stored against the exterior wall, and I don't doubt it'd blow a hole through it. Yeah but think how much more damage smokeless would do. razz Smokeless just kind of burns. Smokeless works on the same principle as dry ice bombs, it just builds pressure until it explodes, but without a decent pressure chamber, it just boils. Black powder is a true explosive.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:25 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:22 pm
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