• marretics
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    9 months ago

    Forgive my ignorance, but where would the original owner have bought bullets for this?

    • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPM
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      9 months ago

      The bullets would have been round lead balls. You could cast them yourself fairly easily. I would imagine the person who owned this would have been rich enough to have their own personal armorer to cast bullets for them.

      Here’s a mold:

      Then to load it you would follow the same procedures you would follow to load a normal flintlock pistol.