could machinist possibly do blunt damage?

[TheMax1087]

Yeah, those pellets are most definitely still going to pierce flesh. Iirc there's a type of ammo for shotguns that are just a bunch a pellets and I would not consider the kind of damage they do to be striking.

The difference I meant to convey is a rifle bullet does damage by penetrating a target, while musket balls and shotgun pellets(while absolutely are still capable of going through a target, though they do so by smashing through it rather than piercing through it) do the majority of their damage through blunt force. An average rifle bullet to the shoulder might break a bone, but a musket ball to the shoulder would tear an arm off.