Lead Musket Balls Are Very Soft

If you are interested in reading more about the ballistics of musket balls, or seeing a lot more images similar to what you've seen in this video, here is good article: http://modernheritage.net/Scott_etal_2017.pdf

I was once told that a musket shot *needed* to be perfectly round, lest it actually lose all its effect and possibly even 'boomerang' around back to the man who fired it...and when I was a child, that sounded fair enough. After all, it was a reenactor who told me it! Surely he would know best...but in reality, it would have been exceptionally rare for a musket ball to ever approach 'perfect roundness'!

Musket balls, being made of lead, are highly malleable! So this video is effectively just a ten minute ramble about some of the implications of this, including the manner in which a musket ball will impact a body in relation to a modern bullet.
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