05-20-2005, 04:03 PM
DeeBye,May 19 2005, 08:08 PM Wrote:Is this true or was that show just feeding me a line of BS? Ever since I watched that show I am more afraid of being shot with a musket than I am of being shot with a high-powered sniper rifle.
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Another bit of trivia. The miniball and other large slow moving projectiles would sometimes impact on a bone and the bone would be pulverised in that area. It's one reason why they amputated so often from bullet wounds. Other reasons were time (the numbers of casualties they had to treat in a short period), sanitation and infection (there basically was none, sepsis and gangrene were very common), and anasthesia (someone sawing off a limb while a few other blokes held you down was supposedly easier for the patient to take than a "doctor" rooting around in your extremity for a projetile that may have done all those things Doc outlined).
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The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein