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Some cornfield finds...

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Talking to a local farmer I found out where an old farmhouse once stood that is now a cornfield. Pretty tough hunting as it has not been tilled yet, the cutoff stalks are over knee high. <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":(">
Got the 2 IH's and what looks like a Spencer boolit... a first for me up here in the northern lower peninusla of Michigan. Don't find many musketballs up here either!
HH Tom
 
John,
The one I think is a Spencer is just over a half inch (.52?) and the musketball is about .58
Tom
 
OK,
the bullet is a 56/50 Spencer, .52 cal and an early one too. You can see how the copper jacket covered the lead grooves. The later, larger ones did not.
The musketball is not common. Common ones are .69 cal.
That one is possibly an 1843 North-Hall carbine or Mississippi Rifle. .58 cal musketballs are hard to find. I get about one in every 200.
hh
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