Ammo need help IDing

[senecalisa]

Ammo need help ID'ing

Found this under an old maple tree in the side yard. Any help ID'ing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day.

 

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[TomPA]

Looks to be a shotgun slug made by Federal. I know these were around in the 1960's (paper casings) but it could be older or more recent.

 

[cactusrat]

I don’t think it’s a bullet, not with a star on the tip. But then again, I know very little about bullets.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It appears to be a copper-jacketed shotgun slug, from the latter part of the 20th-century. Yours seems to be missing most of the lead which the copper jacket covered.

 

[d2]

A Foster type slug I think they are called...d2

 

[TomPA]

Here's one that I pulled out for a picture.

 

[Monty]

An old style shotgun slug. The newer shotgun slugs have either a sabot shaped lead projectile or a conical shaped one, some being solid lead while others are copper coated. Instead of solid copper the cover is often some type of cupro/nickel alloy known as gilding metal. This particular one looks like it is mostly solid lead and the Federal brand is probably a very good guess. Monty