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First civil war bullet.....I think.

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Bill_S

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Took the X-Terra 70 out and just left the stock coil on instead of the 10.5 dd. I also took along the 6" DD coil becasue I had planned to detect a certain park that always produces a bunch of clad. Got there and there were too many people around so I changed my plans. Went to another area instead. There was tons of trash signals and I only had about an hour to hunt so I tried to concentrate on the higher number signals. Got a jumpy id but it was showing as a deeper target so I decided to dig it. Down around 6-7 inches out comes this bullet. Any idea what type it is? Thanks.
 
Bill,
The object on the right is a United States dime. LOL! Yes the object to the left of the dime surely is civil war era. Good job.
 
Hi: Not toa burst your bubble, but if this is .50 cal, it could be a fairly recent bullet used in black powder muzzle loader hunting. If is .54 cal or greater, could be civil war.
 
That is a Three Ring Minnie' From the Civil War. Looks like a .69 Cal. It is not recent, the white patina takes years to form over the bullet in the ground. Great Find. HH...Jesse.
 
Bill,
That white stuff is oxidation. That's what made "lead" paint white. Now they use titanium oxide.
 
Bill...There is no question about your bullet. It is a .58 cal three ringer..used by the northern army during the Civil War.
If you do not live in an area where civil war battles were fought does not mean its not Civil War. A lot of these bullets
were carried home by the solders and later lost. I have dug several thousand of the bullets and feel qualified to make the identification. Very nice fine and cool piece of history.
 
Not to belabor the issue, but I have attached a photo of a lead .50 cal "Maxi Hunter" bullet that I cast up several years ago for muzzle loader hunting. Note the three rings and the white "oxidation". I took the photo of it sitting on a dime to give you an idea of the diameter. As a .69 cal, yours should cover the dime. It appears from the photo that yours looks to be a .69, and congrats are in order.
 
I was told that bullets had been found before in the area I was hunting. I was just not expecting to find one myself. Here is a picture of it beside a .50 caliber muzzleloader bullet and the dime on the bottom.
 
Bill...the second photo, with the dime on the bottom of the bullet, clearly proves it a .69 cal not a .58 cal as I first suspected.
 
WTG Bill, nice find.
 
I found a .69 cal. a couple months ago..they are big!! Mine had hit something hard.. not in as good shape as that one!! Nice find sir

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Definitely 69 caliber of Civil War period, but not absolutely from the Civil War. The patina tells you the approximate age, but many guns from that era were 69 caliber. I hunt in an infested Civil War area, but I'm sure not all bullets I find were used in the war. Maybe someone out hunting for dinner. But they're all the same to me. Civil War period bullets. Great find.
 
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