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Originally Posted by magic452
Since someone brought up 64 pounders and such, something that I often wondered about but never bothered to do the research on, when did they change from just shooting steel balls and start using exploding shells?
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Well for a time the two types of shells existed side by side, but used different weapons to fire them. (This time period should be obvious if you remember the national anthem).
By the 1860's they had rounds that could be fired from normal guns, although adoption of it was slow.