musket ball costs?

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Originally Posted by Jaware

Not to mention, you look at something like an arrowhead, which is only 20x cost for something that honestly, should take more work compared to just make a ball out of it.

In either case, you'd be using cast silver. Depending on the nature of the arrowhead (e.g., something like a bodkin point) the difference in mass of silver used to make an arrowhead might not be that different from that required to make a musket ball.

Time and effort required to make a mold for either an arrowhead or a bullet won't be comparatively that different, especially if you have a model part you can take a cast from, nor would clean-up of the cast parts.