Historical Bullets of 19th Century (9 pics)
These bullets are date back guns of 19th century, or it was used more precisely to the Crimean War. But they resemble some kind of “mini-bombs”.
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I am a former US Marine and these photos interest me. The M-16 shoots a little .226 bullet, tiny by bullet standards. The thing is the M-16 gets that tiny bullet going really really fast. It can go really far and when it enters a target the bullet just tumbles all around.
These bullets you show are the other end of the range. Some look to be about 4 times the width of a .226, and I'm pretty sure they where slow when fired. But if you were hit by one of these you were pretty sure to lose a limb.
Which is better, the super fast and tiny .226 or the big bullets of days gone by? With am M-16 I hit a dinner plate sized target 10 out of 10 times from 800 meters. 800 meters is 875 yards, or a half mile.
Like the AT&T commercial used to sing to us; "Reach out, reach out and touch someone" - I'd rather be 800 meters away from my target.
Or better yet, use a real sniper rifle that has an effective range 3,000 yards which is 1 3/4 miles.
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