How can this happen?

[tymcmurray]

I found this bullet at the battle of williamsport site.
It looks like it's been imprinted.
Can a bullet be fired, hit a hard object and become imprinted?
This is the same weight as a 58.

 

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[{Sentinel}]

They can hit something so hard that it leaves an imprint. But it could have been "shaped" by a soldier too. If it is a minie, I have seen MANY things carved from minies that will blow your mind. That is very odd looking though I have to admit.....Never seen one that looked like this.

 

[tymcmurray]

They can hit something so hard that it leaves an imprint. But it could have been "shaped" by a soldier too. If it is a minie, I have seen MANY things carved from minies that will blow your mind. That is very odd looking though I have to admit.

I have a book that shows all kinds of carvings, but this looks way to perfect. Maybe the leached patina is covering the carved marks. I don't know.

 

[ModernMiner]

Ty,
If you look carefully, it looks like the imprint of the exact spacing a hogs teeth.
O.K., I made that up.
Congrats,
MM

 

[BioProfessor]

That's just weird. Maybe somebody was trying to make something with a bullet. Indented surface seems too flat to have been caused by anything other than a tool. Just the way it looks to me. Could it be shaped by hitting something? Sure. But I have no idea what it might have been. Matter of fact, I can't even imagine how it could be shaped that way.

Good find and conversation piece.

Bet you can't replicate it.

Daryl

 

[texan connection]

The way bullets flew around during a battle it very well could have hit a seam in a wagon wheel or something and changed shapes to that extent

 

[tymcmurray]

The way bullets flew around during a battle it very well could have hit a seam in a wagon wheel or something and changed shapes to that extent

That's just weird. Maybe somebody was trying to make something with a bullet. Indented surface seems too flat to have been caused by anything other than a tool. Just the way it looks to me. Could it be shaped by hitting something? Sure. But I have no idea what it might have been. Matter of fact, I can't even imagine how it could be shaped that way.

Good find and conversation piece.

Bet you can't replicate it.

Daryl

Just in case it is an impression, I took my compass and came up with this.



You guys that know your stuff might know of something this size.

 

[BioProfessor]

Now that's interesting.

Daryl

 

[jmginmd]

Looks to be the size of a breast plate.

 

[haboo]

What give you the ideal its was a bullet and not just a broken piece of some other type of lead object from the same time period?

 

[tymcmurray]

That
s posible. I wonder what, though.

 

[piggman1]

Very interesting indeed.

 

[{Sentinel}]

It could be a "piece" of a lead sabot used on the bottom of projectiles.