Concentrations of Roman lead projectiles show that the fort was attacked by Roman forces.
After conducting tests with lead projectiles, this gun was set up on a hillside at a 45 degree angle.
The two booms of air, rushing back down the barrel after the lead projectile, traveling faster than sound, moved out, overlapped.
Using a pointed lead projectile coated with easily obtainable pure nicotine, lethal delivery would be silent, swift, and sure.
In Swedish service the standard cartridge used a lead projectile (shaped like a Minié ball) weighing 24 gr (370 g).
The objective of their design was for the lead projectile to expand and rip through tissue like a Roto Rooter.
The punch of the lead projectiles saved the soldier's life, hurling him to the ground and, for the moment, out of the sight of the hit men.
Note: the lead projectile reached its terminal velocity before impact.
It's a two-ounce copper-jacketed lead projectile traveling at nearly nineteen hundred miles an hour, but gravity has its way.
He opened it, and her mouth tightened as she saw the dull gleam of bullet-shaped lead projectiles.