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  12. +vulpes vulgaris not really, the minié ball is no more dangerous than any blackpowder .44-.50 cal cartridge with a modern unjacketed round nosed bullet. It's only more lethal than the round balls of similiar caliber due to improved gas seal leading to higher muzzle velocity, longer range and better accuracy as well as the grease in the waist grooves of the bullet that caught a lot of dirt and bacteria during flight and impact which often led to fatal infections. Modern full and intermediate power rifle rounds such as the 7.62x51/7.62x54R or 5.45x39/5.56x45 used in modern combat rifles do a lot more damage than any personal infantry weapon used before 1890. The mechanism behind the worse injuries of modern rounds is the hydrostatic shock where the high velocity of the bullet cause a shockwave in soft tissue that tears muscle and sends internal organs crashing into eachother and tearing veins, arteries, sinews and membranes in the process creating a temporary wound cavity the size of an american football for the fraction of a second as the shockwave expands and then contracts i the wake of the bullet. A bullet that in addition to the damage already described often starts to tumble or shatter into fragments as it passes the body causing even more damage as each fragment cause it's own lesser shockwave and wound channel. All this compared to the musket balls and minié balls which are too slow to cause any significant shockwave and thus creates a wound channel that's no worse than the one that a dirty rapier or medieval longbow arrow would cause.
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