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    Williams cleaning bullet

    Hello,
    Dose any one know if a Williams cleaning bullet is being reproduced? I live fire my musket on occation and would like to find out if they worked. I have a type 1 and type 3 bullet.

    Brent Conner
    Crisfield, Maryland
    Brent Conner

    We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
    Benjamin Franklin
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  • #2
    Re: Williams cleaning bullet

    Hallo!

    Unless recently... no, not to my knowledge.

    Curt
    Curt Schmidt
    In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

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    • #3
      Re: Williams cleaning bullet

      Unfired orignals are readily available from Shiloh relics and not very expensive. How well they would fit or operative in a repro barrel I cannot say.
      Tom Dodson
      Tom Dodson

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      • #4
        Re: Williams cleaning bullet

        Hallo!

        Not a bad idea, in the long run.

        The only problem I can see is that the Italian repro barels vary in calibre and vary over time. I have miked some as large as .581 or .582 which might, possibly make firing a .574 Williams bullet not the best test.
        (Or by what means one can assess or gauge how "perfectly clean" it leaves a bore after "X" number of rounds.)

        Also remmber that the "cleaner" part of the bullet was an observed "fringe benefit" and that the bullet's design was an "improvement" to decrease windage and import better spin to imprive accuracy not clean bores.

        Curt
        Curt Schmidt
        In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

        -Hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
        -Haplogroup R1b M343 (Subclade R1b1a2 M269)
        -Pointless Folksy Wisdom Mess, Oblio Lodge #1
        -Vastly Ignorant
        -Often incorrect, technically, historically, factually.

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        • #5
          Re: Williams cleaning bullet

          Originally posted by Tom Dodson View Post
          Unfired orignals are readily available from Shiloh relics and not very expensive. How well they would fit or operative in a repro barrel I cannot say.
          Tom Dodson
          The zinc washer is usually long gone or about to crumble on dug cleaner bullets and the patina on a dug bullet probably would not be good for the bore.
          Jim Mayo

          Portsmouth Rifles, 9th Va. Inf.
          http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/j_mayo/9va/rifles1.html

          CW show & tell.
          http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/j_mayo/index.html

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          • #6
            Re: Williams cleaning bullet

            Should you care to follow this project, eBay is worth looking at for a source for a volume purchase of dug Williams slugs. Often a large lot is offered. Don't know I would risk it however, but then in my youth I had a friend shoot live rounds over my head as I hunkered down behind a railroad tie wall so that I could experience the sound a mini ball makes. A sound mentioned by many vets in their post war writings. (Do not try this at home). As Mr. Mayo points out, the tin may hard Italian barrels.
            Steve Sullivan

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