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Old 08-20-2018, 03:12 PM   #16
Jaware
 
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Default Re: musket ball costs?

All of this is nice and everything and we'll thought out and the what not.

However.

Back during those days, guns didn't have interchangeable parts.

Therefore one couldn't just go out and "buy yourself a pound of shot for your "~.53 caliber musket" because every musket was different."

That was why people historicallyrics made their own. Especially during the revolutionary war and even up until after the civil war.

That is why I wouldn't charge the price of labor to format said shot, since that's more than likely what you are having to do yourself.

Since the book eyeballs powder at around 20$ a pound and you get ~40 shots per pound, one can just ignore powder values since you would be buying it separately.

Wah at you would really be buying was just lead, if you were lucky, it would be in precut pieces. More more than likely, it would just be an ingot and you'd cut it off yourself with like a hatchet or the like.

Last edited by Jaware; 08-20-2018 at 03:13 PM. Reason: Grammer mistakes
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