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Projectile Effects

Does anyone have video tape of SPHERICAL CASE SHOT or SHELL actually exploding? Maybe from the recent shoot at Camp Grayling? I have seen the effects of CANISTER and SOLID SHOT before but I want to see the surface danger area and target effect of SPHERICAL CASE SHOT or SHELL. I am very familiar with modern weapons effects but I want to more thoroughly get in my mind's eye the capabilities of these projectiles.

I do not need to know what they do to the human body. The surface danger area and target effect is referring to the bursting radius and height, potential overpressure, fragmentation and velocity of burst, etc.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civl War Concentration
War Between the States Historian
Research - Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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