Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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That was inartfully worded, but I took it to mean that a trained
marksman could hit what he aimed at to 250 yards, but no matter where it
was aimed, the bullet had sufficient kinetic energy to be deadly out to
500 yards.

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> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> > While Pennington got the distinction between Minie- and miniballs
> > correct, he misspelled "ordnance" as "ordinance".
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> Not to mention that, he - probably as the consequence of a mind-fart -
> says that the greater the distance that the Minie ball traveled, the
> more likely it was that the person struck by the ball would suffer a
> mortal wound:
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> "They were _effective_ to a range of about _250 yards_ and _deadly_ to
> about _500 yards_."
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