Set of 50 balls Minié

Balls manufactured by Davide Pedersoli & co to the highest standards.

The Minié bullet was a cylindrical-conical lead bullet, of a caliber slightly smaller than that of the barrel of the weapon for which it was intended. It had at its base four outer grooves filled with grease and a conical hole. As designed by Minié, the bullet had an iron lug at its base in order to move it forward and, under the pressure of the gases, to ensure sealing by filling the space between it and the barrel, allowing him to come into contact with his stripes.

The ancestor of the Minié bullet was created in 1848 by French army captains Montgomery and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. Their design was made to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles, an innovation that resulted in its widespread use as a mass battlefield weapon. In 1826, Delvigne had invented a bullet that could compress and expand to overmold the grooves of the rifle barrel. The bullet's cylindrical-conical ogive design was proposed in 1832 by Captain John Norton, but had not been adopted.