Bullet Expert Needed

[secondcup]

I found this bullet when MD'ing the front yard of my family's summer cottage. Can anyone tell me anything based on these pictures? Caliber, age etc. Not sure why it would be in the front yard in the first place!

Thanks!

 

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[Ant]

Looks like a cheap modern day bullet that was fired out of a rifled pistol barrel most likely a .38 Special or a .32, I cant tell using a quarter. By the way, you can except to find bullets everwhere.

 

[secondcup]

Thanks Ant!

Now that I'm thinking about it, I seem to remember someone shooting out a window on the house back in the 70's. The neighborhood has gotten better since then!

 

[hasbeen]

The type of bullet shown would be fired from an auto loading pistol. Scaling from the top picture tells me it is a 9mm dia. bullet,probably from a 9x19mm pistol.

A 9mm bullet measures .355",a quarter measures .950".The picture shows the quarter to be about 2.66 times as large as the bullet. 2.66x.355=.9443 Close enough it's a 9mm.

hasbeen

 

[blurr]

This is just a guess, but it appears to be a .40 caliber pistol round. You would have to measure it to be sure, but the flat top of the bullet is consistant with a .40 cal round.


John

 

[l.cutler]

More likely a revolver than an autoloader. Autoloader bullets are almost always round nosed to make chambering more certain. Probably .38.

 

[blurr]

More likely a revolver than an autoloader. Autoloader bullets are almost always round nosed to make chambering more certain. Probably .38.

.40 auto rounds are flat nosed, check it out. That doesn't mean that's what this is though.


John

 

[junkdigger]

Hornady .355 diameter 124 grain full metal jacket flat point. Most likely fired from a 9mm Parabellum auto pistol. I scaled it too,for size,but can't weigh the photo LOL! Search Hornady's sight to see that the ogive style matches the Hornady bullet.

 

[l.cutler]

Yeah, that looks like it. It always amazes how many bullets are found where you wouldn't expect it.

 

[montepollock]

Cutler made appropriate comment,I tend to think wheelgun,but rifling appears consistant with autoloader.

 

[Monty]

Most assuridly a semi-auto pistol of some kind. The bullet has no crimping groove. I reload nearly every pistol caliber from .44 mag. on down and that shape bullet is made for 9mm, 40 S&W, 10mm, and .45 Auto just to name a few. Several manufacturers make that same shaped bullet. Monty

 

[secondcup]

You guys are amazing! The wealth of knowledge on this forum is nothing short of astonishing.

Thanks for the info!

 

[SquirrelDemon]

does anybody know what kind of bullet this is?
It is 2cm by 6cm