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Saturday's hunt

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Hunted Saturday and came away with some nice bullets. All were found between 5"-10" deep. Only question I have on ID'ing bullet would be the 2 ringer with small cavity in top center of picture. Haven't ever found a 2 ringer like that with small cavity. Same size as the Smith's bullet,pretty close, any guess on what it might be? Thanks for looking!
 
Mystery Bullet depends upon caliber..if .52 then Sharps if .56 then Colt Revolving Rifle. Also the "smeared" bullet below your mystery bullet might be a .58 squeezed into a .577 Enfield. Hope this helps. HH.
Dave
 
Thanks Dave, bullet measures out at .52, must be a sharps. I was wandering about that smeared bullet your talking about, I thought it looked kinda weird. You may be right about it being a .58 squeezed into a .577 Thanks again buddy!
 
Joe Bilby in his book <EM>Civil War Firearms</EM> which is an excellent stocking stuffer for Santa to buy. It has an interesting story about the 15th NJ and their plight with enfields of two different bore diameters. Enfields reaching this country had 2 different bore sizes. Stamped on each barrel was either "25" for 25 gage intended for British .577 ammo or "24" for 24 gage intended for the American export market and used ammo intended for Springfields. The Jerseyans were issued rifles of both types and after a few wrong rounds were fired in the rifles at Salem Church bore fouling became so extensive that soldiers had to push their ramrods against trees to seat the bullets in their guns. Similar situations occured in the Confederate army.
Check out Bilby's book it's full of rifle tidbits like this.
Dave
 
Thanks Dave for the interesting comments. I'll check into that book, sounds very interesting indeed! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
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