I'm sure this is cool.....jus wish I knew what it was.....

[mncricket]

Found this last night next to a long time farm field. I rang at a 57 (zinc) on the F2's VDI. It weighs 1.23 oz......it was about 3 or 4 inches down.
Patterned lines go all the way around but are melted (or smashed maybe) on one side. Mostly hollow in the bottom with a small divet in the top....I suppose it could be a bullet of some sort (and I am certainly no expert), but I have never seen anything like this.......

 

[Ism]

12ga Shotgun slug

 

[Ant]

Yeap, rifled shotgun slug.

 

[mncricket]

Ok....maybe not as cool as i thought....thanks!

 

[Ant]

That's still cool. JFYI rifled or smooth/non- rifled shotgun slugs are used in smooth bore shotguns per the manufactures instructions and are still used today. It is dangerous to shoot a rifle shotgun slug out of a shotgun with a rifled barrel. The slugs that are used in a rifled shotgun barrel are known as sabot slugs, they are housed in a plastic cover/sheath that embeds itself inside the rifling (lands and groves) that spins the round. So to sum it up rifled shotgun barrels shoot sabot rounds, it is unsafe to shoot a rifled or smooth shotgun slug out of a rifled barrel, smooth bore shotgun barrels per the manufactures instructions are meant to shoot smooth or rifled slugs, not sabot slugs.