Bullet Experts?

[cornspike]

Bullet ID please?

Looks to be 36 cal but very long about an inch, any ideas on year/gun? Found in TN. Thanks for looking

 

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[NOLA_Ken]

Looks home cast to me, was it found on dry ground? I ask because there's no corrosion or patina on it.

 

[cornspike]

Others found in same area

These were all surface finds on an old river bed/road. Any info would help. found south of Nashville, TN.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

being found in a river bed would explain no patina if it had been underwater for a long time. It looks like a home made .30 cal bullet. Definitely not fired, and from the casting lines on it, not actually finished either.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Cornspike, to accurately identify your bullets, we need super-precise measurement (in hundredths-of-an-inch) of their diameter and length. Please borrow or buy some Digital Calipers ...because a ruler cannot show the size difference between a .30 or .32 caliber bullet.

In the meantime... your sharp-pointed very long ones look like a latter-1800s bullet from a metallic cartridge. I cannot be more specific than that without knowing their exact diameter.

Please also measure the diamter of the short conical bullets, and the short-&-fat one.

Also, I'd like to see some additional photos of the short-&-fat one. What is its base-cavity shaped like? Conical, or rounded like a coffee-cup, or bowl-shaped (like a shallow soup-bowl, or does the cavity have a flat bottom?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Some of the longer conicals show brass gas-checks or the recessed base to accomidate them. Those, at least, are relatively modern. 1950's or more recent. None show rifling marks, and some even show mold flashing. They are unfired.

 

[cornspike]

Ok I'm on it, thanks for the help! Will post soon....