✅ SOLVED Bullet #8

[fyrffytr1]

Here's #8 in my small collection that I need help with. Hagerstown, Md area (Antietam/Gettysburg).

 

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[mirage83]

This is a curious one. I would almost say it's a carbine bullet based on it's shape, but I can't match those dimensions to anything in M&M, at least not with a solid base. Someone with more field experience will have to make the call on this one.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is an unfired civil war US .50-caliber Warner Rifle bullet, missing its metal casing. Its base is somewhat corroded AND "concreted" by the blackpowder that was in the unfired casing. It is a rare bullet. See bullet #83 in the updated "Handbook Of Civil war Bullets & Cartridges" by James E. Thomas and Dean S. Thomas.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thanks, once again.