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Craig was still scanning the bullet. "It looks almost as if some one had dum-dummed it," he remarked, finally. "It's curiously done, too. Just look at those grooves." Both the captain and I looked. It had a hard jacket of cupro- nickel, like the army bullet, covering a core of softer metal. Some one had notched or scored the jacket as if with a sharp knife, though not completely through it.
Eodem anno combusta est villa de Cupro casualiter." Bk. x, ch. xxii. Account of Harlaw
The cartridge used for the rifle is called the .30-caliber model 1906 cartridge. There are four types of cartridges. The BALL CARTRIDGE consists of the brass case or shell, the primer, the charge of smokeless powder, and the bullet. The bullet has a sharp point, is composed of a lead core and a jacket of cupro nickel, and weighs 150 grains.
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