got a hunting partner and a CW bullet

[funkman]

Went out last Friday to a site that had a house from the mid 1800's to at least the 1950's and we searched a wooded area that would have been behind the house. Did find the old well we believe and did not want to try our luck going down it. It is a brick lined square hole in the ground and there are openings in the walls as if bricks are missing but the ones at the bottom if these opening are slanted as if to let water roll down the slant. My hunting partner took pics of the hole and hopefully I will get copies of the pics to show you all.

Anyway after we treked a little into the woods we began to notice trash laying around and he went home with a bunch of bottles that I believe were from the early 1900's. As he was collecting the bottles I was detecting and I got a great coin signal that I could not make it fail into trash. As a started to swing away from the coin signal just dropped. Most times if as I am swinging away the signal goes from coin to trash and then drops then I know it is not a coin. This dropped in coin signal so I thought it could be a good find and I was right. My partner heard I had a good signal and came over by me to see what I had and we both recognized it right away as a three ring bullet. I guess the owner of the house must have been a veteran and came home with his rifle or whatever or kept the bullet as a souvenier, we never know.
Anyway if anyone with more experience on CW bullets can give me some information on this one I would appreciate it. I know it is a three ringer but is it a revolver or rifle bullet and did they only have these bullets during the civil war or did they still manufacturer them afterwards? I feel it is form the civil war but don;t want to bet the house on it though.

Thanks

Funkman

 

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[allen]

very cool bullet...

 

[duggap]

It is hard to tell just from a pic but I would say you have the .58 cal Minie ball which would be fired from a rifled musket. (Yours does look to have been a drop, never fired) There might have been a training camp near by or it may be an artifact from the great war. Nice find for that part of the country.

 

[BuckleBoy]

It is hard to tell just from a pic but I would say you have the .58 cal Minie ball which would be fired from a rifled musket. (Yours does look to have been a drop, never fired) There might have been a training camp near by or it may be an artifact from the great war. Nice find for that part of the country.

Yes, I'd say .58 cal Minieball--however this one has either been fired or carved.


It's not necessarily CW--in an area with no CW activity. In fact, it likely isn't. It is CW-Era. Those bullets were used for a lot more besides shooting at the Sesesh.


-Buckleboy

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I found my share of musket balls, but never a three ringer.

Nice job,

Keep @ it and HH!!