🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found this I’m pretty sure lead object in my yard today? It’s VERY heavy, has a hole on bottom and marks carved into it on the sides and it’s white.

[DarthYoda333]

 

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[Limitool]

Maybe hollow point shotgun slug...?

 

[DarthYoda333]

Maybe hollow point shotgun slug...?

I think it’s a rifled slug but with that patina it’s got to be old right? The modern ones online are dark gray not bright white like old bullets get over time.

 

[Limitool]

I totally agree its got to be old. Now I am NOT a ballistic expert AT ALL.... but it may have been dropped (not shot) and had the old paper casing which is now gone but that is ONLY a guess on my part. But if that's true I don't even know it rifled slugs existed....?

 

[Tpmetal]

Modern slug, though now that I think about it we keep calling these modern but they have been around awhile now. Makes me think how old I'm getting and I'm only in my late 30s.

 

[Almy]

Fired "rifled" shotgun slug. A dropped one would have the rifling marks going all the way to the base.

 

[MisterHelix]

I think it’s a rifled slug but with that patina it’s got to be old right? The modern ones online are dark gray not bright white like old bullets get over time.

I have found white patina on .22lr rounds that I dropped in the back pasture less than ten years ago, as an anecdotal reference point.

That said, shotgun slugs have been around since 1898, so it could be older than one might think.

I concur that it is a rifled slug. It probably weighs an even 7/8ths of an ounce or like that.