They tested both "buck and ball" -- which consisted of a larger musket ball along with three smaller buckshot pellets -- as well as buckshot, which included a dozen of the small pellets, at a ...

Smoothbore muskets saw extensive service during the American Civil War, and at the North-South Skirmish Association's smoothbore match, they pay homage to the men who used these firearms in conflict.

The musket balls briefly went on display to the public last week, becoming a crowd favorite and lighting up the eyes of many kids, said Nikki Walsh, museum curator at Minute Man.

But Lockau and colleagues explain that buckshot is much rarer as ammunition than musket balls, because it was not used by the British army in the War of 1812 and because shortly thereafter ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the ...

Musket balls that started the American Revolution sat buried. Until now. “The last time somebody touched it they were shoving it down the muzzle of a musket on April 19, 1775,” a park ranger ...

Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.

Then he drew the ramrod from beneath the musket’s barrel, inserted powder and ball into the muzzle, following this with the paper cartridge as wadding. The whole was firmly rammed home.

Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.

Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.

CONCORD, Mass. — Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first ...

Museum curator Nikki Walsh holds up two Revolutionary War musket balls, which are believed to be fired at the British by colonial militia men, at Minute Man National Historical Park, Monday, July ...