Buck and ball was a common load for muzzle-loading muskets, and was very commonly used into the early days of the American Civil War. The load consisted of a .69 caliber round lead musket ball combined with three buckshot pellets.
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Through barnlike, theatrelike houses
On the winds of the buck and wing.”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
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