Are these bullets? Or something else?

rastinirv

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Found a whole mess of these projectile-looking things at the base of a large old tree on what was once rural farmland but now a suburban park.

The ones marked No. 1 are mostly hollow; no. 2 the same, 3 has a solid base but is hollow at the tip; likewise no. 4, though that seems more like a shell than a slug. Are they bullets or some other thing that I haven't thought of? :icon_scratch: Needless to say, I don't know enough about ammo to tell. Thanks in advance for your help! Let me know if you need more/better photos.

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The hollow bases first made me think of field(practice) points for arrows, but the boattail shape of group#1 has me second guessing.
3 & 4 seem to be bullets.
 

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I'd say they are the jackets of bullets with the lead melted out? I used to pitch all my empty copper jackets after melting but my bullets never looked that pretty after impact?
 

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After WWII, I was a pre teen, and all the inexpensive target arrows that were for sale had tips made from surplus 30 caliber bullets. I assumed then and now that these were left over in the manufacturing process for making ammunition, the copper jacket part before they had the lead added to them. In a year or so those type of tips disappeared. The army didn't use boat tail bullets, and the arrows I speak of didn't have boat tail tips either. Tracer bullets burn out and are hollow, but not boat tail. The larger bullets look like 45 cal semi wad cutters. Are they lead or is that a hollow copper jacket? The last two look like rifle bullets, and the one is called a hollow point.
 

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