[backwoods-engineer]

There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm. Someone needs to watch an episode or two of CSI

And as someone who has shot firearms all my life, I am telling you that CSI is BULLSH*T if they portray "bullet-matching" techniques as applicable to muzzle-loading arms. It is hard enough to get a bullet fragment from a rifle to match the barrel; usually the only recourse is neutron activation or other mass spectrographic technique.

Furthermore: I doubt most people on FR even realize that black powder arms ARE NOT FIREARMS, at least by the FedGov's definition.

[verga]

See post 114

[Sherman Logan]

And as someone who has shot firearms all my life, I am telling you that CSI is BULLSH*T if they portray "bullet-matching" techniques as applicable to muzzle-loading arms.

I believe it is possible.

Firing a minie ball through a muzzle-loader would presumably leave rifling marks in the ball that could be used in ballistic forensics. Not commonly done, but not impossible.