Can anyone ID this bullet? ?

[RelicMedic]

I cant say I've ever found a bullet like this before. Is it pulled and a piece of the puller broke off in it? I'm lost lol. Thanks for your help folks!

 

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[pistol-pete]

What is the caliber and weight to go further? Winchester made at one time what they called an express bullet, with a covered copper tube in the front. Kind of a covered hollow point.

 

[RelicMedic]

I'm pretty sure it's a .57

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is definitely a .577 Snider-Enfield bullet, from the late-1860s into the early-1870s. The Snider-Enfield rifles and bullets are known to have been issued to Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. It was manufactured with the small iron plug in its nose.

Although your Snider-Enfield bullet resembles an American civil war "Minie-bullet," unlike that type it has 4 body-grooves and it is absolutely from after 1865.

To learn more (and see a photo of a Snider-Enfield bullet in its metallic cartridge), go here:
.577 Snider-Enfield bullet-cartridge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.577_Snider
.577 Snider-Enfield Rifle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snider–Enfield

 

[Tony in SC]

And I don't see any rifelings. It may be a dropped. Tony

 

[RelicMedic]

Thank you so much guys! I don't see any rifling on it, but there is a spot where it had impacted against something, or something was dropped on it.