✅ SOLVED Bullet ID Help

[Lost Signal]

Dug this in a field where we have found some musket balls, a minie ball and some modern bullets. Not sure that this is even a bullet, but it's lead, and I don't know what else it would be. Anyone know? Thanks!

 

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[Dfxcobb]

not sure..very interesting

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your long hardened-lead bullet's apparent diameter being less than .50-caliber but above .40-caliber, and its shallow cup/bowl base cavity, make it appear to be a late-1800s rifle bullet, from a metallic cartridge. Being in such heavily corroded condition, I can't be sure whether it is one of the Sharps rifle bullets from that time period, or some other variety.

 

[Lost Signal]

Your long hardened-lead bullet's apparent diameter being less than .50-caliber but above .40-caliber, and its shallow cup/bowl base cavity, make it appear to be a late-1800s rifle bullet, from a metallic cartridge. Being in such heavily corroded condition, I can't be sure whether it is one of the Sharps rifle bullets from that time period, or some other variety.

Thanks! That time period would mean that the bullet probably belonged to one of my own ancestors.