🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Is this a bullet?

[dagwood67]

This is pure lead - solid - bullet shaped - us it a bullet?

 

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[CreakyDigger]

Yes, it looks like a blackpowder bullet I used to shoot out of a kit-made Hawken percussion rifle in the 1970's...although it is rather small....

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Yes. Thompsn Center Maxi-Ball.

 

[dagwood67]

Yes. Thompsn Center Maxi-Ball.

Wow! Cool! Thank you!

 

[dagwood67]

Yes, it looks like a blackpowder bullet I used to shoot out of a kit-made Hawken percussion rifle in the 1970's...although it is rather small....

Interesting! Thanks!

 

[metrotec]

It's from Spanish American War.. found 2 pockets full at firing range near Ft Oglethorpe,GA cavalry

 

[CreakyDigger]

It's from Spanish American War.. found 2 pockets full at firing range near Ft Oglethorpe,GA cavalry

Except you can still buy them.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The fact that some of these Maxi-Ball bullets have been "found at Ft. Oglethorpe GA" does not mean they date back to the Spanish-American War (1898). For example, I dug a pocketfull of very-modernday FIRED .58 Lyman Mold blackpowder repro Minie bullets in a patch of deep forest at the Cold Harbor VA battlefield. (Not on the National Park land there, of course.) Maxi-Ball blackpowder bullets are from no earlier than the 2nd half of the 20th-Century. For proof, see the photos below. Note that Charlie P. (NY) gave the exactly correct ID-name for them, a Thompson Center Maxiball.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

It's from Spanish American War.. found 2 pockets full at firing range near Ft Oglethorpe,GA cavalry

Unless there was a second one faught after about 1968 I do not think so.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Charlie P got it right in one!

 

[Gare]

Charlie P in NY I think got it and also The cannonballguy got it