1592954078000 1312632483000 term-86937 1616541318369 1312632585000 1616290426283 adlib fitz-online adlib-term-86937 891a2efe-61e1-374e-af64-3435e2e58391 2 1 scope note Muzzleloading rifle bullets with a conical head, cylindrical body, and a three-grooved hollow base which, upon firing, expanded to fill the barrel rifling. They were developed in the mid-19th century by Captain Claude-Étienne Minié, among others, but rapidly grew obsolete with the increasing use of breechloading firearms and practical fixed ammunition in the late 19th century. reference term-86936 adlib-term-86936 c55e1e47-fc8d-334d-b76c-20debab2cf10 Minié ball V.TK.ALO.AXC.ALO.BCW 1 code V.TK.ALO.AXC.ALO.BCW 1 Minié balls reference term-86938 adlib-term-86938 c9513e1b-1f39-3b23-9e0e-799d8511218b bullets Minié balls term