![Swedish major Eric Bonde smoking a cigarette after being ambushed and shot twice, Congo, January 15th, 1961 [596x698 - 89KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/fwA1tS.jpg){kind=link}
lol.
And likely true!
We know that muzzle loaded weapons can be indeed quite deadly. The shot in chest should have punctured his lung. Who knows wtf the idiots were doing.
Lol, Almost guaranteed true, I wouldn't bet against that. I haven't really researched to compare, but I was under the impression those 50 cal miniballs from the civil war era were really really nasty. Those don't look like .50 wounds so I wonder what they were using.
Yep those balls were big!
You can squirrel hunt with a .32 ball (some do use bigger calibers tho), so they do make smaller calibers.
That must be closer to what they used here. Imagine trying to load your muzzle loader while you get peppered with a submachine gun. I almost feel for them, almost.
Btw, Titus Caesar Vespasianus (pic8.co)
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