GetReal
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Not sure if its civil war or more modern?
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Although I cannot be 100% certain, dur to the smallness of the photo, your bullet appears to have multiple parallel ridges inside the body-groove. Relc-diggers call that a "reeded" groove. There were no such bullets during the civil war era. The earliest appearance of "reeded" grooves on bullets was in the latter-1870s to early-1880s. Reeded-groove bullets are still being manufactured today, which makes dating them accurately extremely difficult, unless the bullet itself can be specifically identified. Here's a photo showing a reeded-groove bullet.
Although I cannot be 100% certain, dur to the smallness of the photo, your bullet appears to have multiple parallel ridges inside the body-groove. Relc-diggers call that a "reeded" groove. There were no such bullets during the civil war era. The earliest appearance of "reeded" grooves on bullets was in the latter-1870s to early-1880s. Reeded-groove bullets are still being manufactured today, which makes dating them accurately extremely difficult, unless the bullet itself can be specifically identified. Here's a photo showing a reeded-groove bullet.