✅ SOLVED bullet found last summer

[oldtimer82]

found this bullet last summer, just took a pic of it. is it new or old. ty for the help. h.h oldtimer

 

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[KeyaPaha]

Could use a little better picture. But from what I can see, it appears to be a fired 30 cal that hit something.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks bigger than a .30 cal . . . I think.

Almost certainly a bullet, though.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

At this point, due to the low-quality photo, the bullet is looking to me like a fired .45-70 Springfield Rifle bullet.

Also, whatever kind of bullet it is, we can't estimate it's age until we see whether its body-grooves are "reeded/knurled" (have multiple tiny parallel ridges in hem), or are plain.

Here's a photo of a bullet with a "reeded" or "knurled" body-groove. If your bullet's grooves look like this, it is no older than about 1877, and probably a good bit younger than that. (Bullets are still being manufactured today with reeded/knurled grooves.)

 

[oldtimer82]

ok will try to take a better pic today. yes its bigger then a 30 cal cause i own a 30.06, and 30.30

 

[Yak1366]

Scaling from the tape measure, that bullet is ~ 0.5" diameter & over an inch long before it impacted.

Also, Oldtimer82, the groove style of the bullet TheCannonballGuy posted is called a cannelure. Look on Google images for it and you'll see nearly every conceivable variation. The reason the groove is there is for lubrication.

 

[vpnavy]

I pulled this from another TN thread...

Civil War Bullet ID Chart (Sep 05, 2013)