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bullet ID Please

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Ray(MaconGA)

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found this at a local park, here in Nebraska, it was about 10" deep it almost looks like the bullet was hit by another bullet, kind of weird. Any ID help would be great...HH
 
We'll need to get more description-info about the bullet from you than just hearing how deep it was and where you dug it. Such as, what caliber is it? (You'll need to do an EXACT measurement of its diameter.)

Lacking the necessary description-info, all I can say about its ID at the moment is:
it looks like a bullet which had a metal cartridge. THAT means it may have been manufactured anytime from the 1850s onward.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy [Pete George]
 
Ray(MaconGa) wrote:
"it looks to be 2 1/4 " total around the bullet. It has 2 rings around it and its shorter than a typical 3 ringer."

Okay, thank you for the additional description-info.
Now, let's see... (calculating) ...
2.25 inches in circumference,
divided by 3.14 (aka Pi, the formula for determining the diameter of a circle)
equals .716 inch in diameter.

I don't know of any .69 - .70 - .71 - .72 caliber METAL-CARTRIDGE rifle bullets. But, my area of knowledge is pre-1866 projectiles. I do know for certain that a .716"-diameter CARTRIDGE-TYPE bullet/slug is not a civil-war era projectile. Perhaps some metal-cartridge 12-gauge shotgun slugs were made after 1865 ...and if so, that might be what you found.

By the way, the key characteristic indicating that your bullet/slug is from a metal-cartridge is the fact that its base below the last groove is clearly smaller in diameter than the of the rest of the lead body. This is to ensure that the base will have a "snug" fit when it is inserted into the lip of the metal cartridge during manufacturing assembly. It is a characteristic commonly seen on Spencer, Henry, Smith&Wesson, and many other metal-cartridge-type bullets.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy
 
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