Even with a specially made setup and at close range, it’s difficult. This should drive home the difficulty and impressiveness of hit-to-kill interceptors that take out incoming warheads or missile from tens of *miles* away at closing velocities far greater than those of mere bullets.
Also: bullets don’t as a rule fuse together; rather, they explode in a shower of flattened lead fragments.
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Civil War bullets were possibly 100% lead without alloy and therefore softer than modern cast bullets which contain some alloy to harden them to prevent leading of rifling. Also, the distances between rifles in CW skirmishes were longer giving more time for the bullets to slow down and the bullets .58 caliber, and sometimes larger. Put all that together and you’d have a reasonably explanation why the CW bullets fused and almost all of their 45-cal shots did not, even those that struck point-to-point. I should think trying to strike two 58-cal rifle bullets together point-to-point at normal skirmish distances would be incredibly difficult.
I forget where, but some museum has two bullets fired during “The Great War” (WW-1) that struck each other in flight, one piercing the other at an angle. Obviously trying to duplicate that shot would be even more difficult.
> some museum has two bullets fired during “The Great War” (WW-1) that struck each other in flight, one piercing the other at an angle
I’ve seen that. I want to say it’s at West Point, but it’s been a long time.
Modern round vs mini-ball would be something to see.