[mec]

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=31619&stc=1&d=1132703211
On the left is the straight walled Minie used in the English cartridges for the Enfield. Next is a modern cast Minie-Burton bullets with grease grooves, The far left one is .69 caliber for the retro-rifled 42 Muskets. The front is the Williams zinc based "cleaner" bullet as packaged in each box of Minie Cartridges.

[Arkie]

And here is some Real bullets I found with my Metal Detector. :)

http://www.laray.net/pics/bullets.jpg

[mec]

Yep. Them is real bullets alright.

[Manedwolf]

Ever see the massive cavity these things make in ballistics tests?

Eyouch.

[mec]

I'm impressed enough with the holes they make in target paper. I went to a presentation on Civil War medicine given by a doctor who is also a buff. Had slides of the injuries produced by these things and they were pretty awful.

Interestingly enough, the survival rate for chest wounds was fairly high while hip and upper thigh wounds produced mortality in the 80 percent range regardless of treatment-( amputation,surgery or more conservative management. Overall thigh wounds, regardless of treatment were a 50-50 proposition.