Interesting picture

[RedFeather]

This from the latest "America's Civil War" magazine, last page:

Picked up at Spotsylvania Courthouse April 16, 1866. Guess two guys got lucky, in more ways than one!

 

[Headhunter]

Mythbusters did an episode on this very article. They deemed it plausable.

HH

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Almost beyond belief. Maybe it was 2 brothers blasting away at each other. I visited Chickamauga some years ago and if memory serves there was two slugs stuck together in the museum.

 

[RedFeather]

Mythbusters did an episode on this very article. They deemed it plausable.

HH

Well, I guess the museum can rest easy now. There's no reason to disbelieve that this artifact is other than genuine. What were they trying to "prove"?

Mythbusters don't hold much credence with me. I watched as they made a cannon out of a large banded oak tree to investigate stories from the 16th century or so. Fired some can projectiles and then stuffed in their left over powder to see what it would do. Maybe a pound or more. Of course, the tree was reduced to tooth picks. Well, duh, as my kids would say. I think they concluded it was probably a myth. They also duplicated one of the tests that Gen. Julian Hatcher did shooting straight up. Not too original a show. (You can tell I'm a big fan. :blah: )

 

[Stumpkiller]

My Grandfather had two FMJ spitzers from WWI that had met and fused. Far as I know my older brother has it/them somewhere.

Lots of stuff in the air means there is a chance of such things.

In Carlos Hathcock's autobiography Marine Sniper he tells of shooting at a recurring reflection in Vietnam. Later a Cong sniper was found with a bullet hole in his eye and a rifle with a scope that had no glass left.

 

[Maynerd62411]

Almost beyond belief. Maybe it was 2 brothers blasting away at each other. I visited Chickamauga some years ago and if memory serves there was two slugs stuck together in the museum.

My G-G-Grandfather probably wished the bullet that got him at Chickamaugua woulda hit another bullet. He was wounded there . He lost part of 3 ribs and one lung and lived until 1933.

 

[tom hargrove]

mabey ,it just not some one time to go when this happens :hmm: