Paper cartridges contained the main propellant charge, but, from 1855 on, the spherical musket ball was replaced by the Delvigne-Minié hollow-base conical projectile later refined by James Burton ...

“The last time somebody touched it they were shoving it down the muzzle of a musket on April 19, 1775,” a park ranger said of the Revolutionary War discovery.

Even when they’re working as designed, loading a musket is a slow and complicated process. Bohy demonstrated all the steps in a new PBS NOVA documentary called “Revolutionary War Weapons,” starting ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the 6th Middlesex County Regiment were practicing Sunday ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...