.58 Cal. bullet with weird rifling marks

[RustyRelics]

The title explains it pretty good. I have never seen these marks before. It was rammed really hard, so I think it might be a .577 Cal. gun it was fired out of. Really tough question, but do any of you know what kind of Civil War musket this was fired from?

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

RustyRelics wrote:
> .58 Cal. bullet with weird rifling marks. The title explains it pretty good. I have never seen these marks before. It was rammed really hard, so I think it might be a .577 Cal. gun it was fired out of. Really tough question, but do any of you know what kind of Civil War musket this was fired from?

Your hard-rammed .58 civil war yankee-styled 3-groove .58 Minie-bullet has 3 wide rifling-groove marks on it, so I believe it was fired from a US .58 Springfield Rifle-musket. So, your bullet wasn't too large for the rifle's bore... the bore had become very "fouled" with gunpowder ash & bullet-lube grease (that's what the bullet's body-grooves are for) from firing all day without being cleaned.

 

[A2coins]

And there you have it I concur

 

[Reanm8er]

Since it doesn't seem to have hit anything can you get an accurate diameter in thousandths and post that?

 

[RustyRelics]

Since it doesn't seem to have hit anything can you get an accurate diameter in thousandths and post that?

Let me get a pic of the other side. I showed this side because you could see the rifling better. The other side is pretty messed up. I also don't have any calipers.

 

[callicles]

It kinda looks like an Enfield ramrod impression to me. Is that a possibility, CBG?