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ball ammunition

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noun

  1. live small-arms ammunition

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Combat practice with ball ammunition against disappearing targets, and at estimated ranges, gets excellent results.

From Military Instructors Manual by Schoonmaker, Oliver

As time then advanced, the Indian branch of the Government very graciously gave me fifty artillery carbines, with belts and sword-bayonets attached, and 20,000 rounds of ball ammunition.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning

Three parties, of three men in each party, were selected, and armed with the old muzzle-loading muskets and ball ammunition.

From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by McNair, John Frederick Adolphus

It is a great favourite on the march; and full marching kit, together with eighty rounds of ball ammunition carried by each man, cannot stop it.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various

During this march the men had been obliged to carry their tentes d'abri, blankets and waterproof sheets, and seventy rounds of ball ammunition, in addition to their field kits and arms and accoutrements.

From The History of the First West India Regiment by Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon)