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"Patches were not normally used in pistols, and I doubt Booth used one."
The derringer Booth used was a rifled muzzleloader and was designed to be used with a patch.
I truly suspect that given what Booth wanted to do that he wouldn't have risked the ball moving off the powder because it was undersized and wouldn't have risked losing the power that would have come with firing an undersized ball out of a rifled barrel.
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"The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind" -Theodorus Gaza
Baby Jesus cries when the fat redneck doesn't have military-grade firepower.
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