Talk:Grapeshot

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"bone fragments could magnify casualties" ??? Can anybody verify this? It soulds a lot like something somedoy saw in a movie... Oom Kosie 17:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

page should include medieval grapeshot, which was used in catapults. Objects used could be metal, wood, garbage, a dead cat, and the contents of chamber pots, when a castle was under siege they would use anything they could spare in their artillery.

metal slugs roughly the size of grapes
- I think this isn't correct. Each slug of grapeshot for swivel guns is bigger than a grape. --Ypacaraí 05:56, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Grapes can get very big - but theres no reason why some guns shouldn't have larger shot and it still be called grapeshot. GraemeLeggett 08:08, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was a very famous use of grapeshot. The Union center destroyed Pickett's Charge with grapeshot before it even reached the Union front. Over 6,500 Confederates were killed in the charge by musket and artillery fire. --Excaliburhorn 04:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)