Is this a musket ball or bullet

[dirtyJohn]

I don't have VDI numbers on my detector but this sure looks like either a rounded fired bullet or musket ball. I found it near an old indian trail. It's small so I figured it was for small game but I don't know. It was about 8" deep.
Thanks for any responses.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Looks like a pistol shot (similar era to the musket)

 

[GL]

Or a shotgun pellet.

 

[ivan salis]

humm they did make blackpowder small game rifles in a pistol type caliber .36 cal.--- so it could be either a .36 cal pistol or .36 cal rilfe round ball type projectile-- plus its was not unheard of to shoot a rabbit / squirrel with a handgun (pistol) long ago.

 

[l.cutler]

Way bigger than .36 caliber, and too small to be a musketball. I would say a muzzleloading rifle ball of approximately .50 cal or so. Just measure the ball and that is your caliber half or .50 of an inch is fifty caliber, .36 of an inch is 36 caliber, etc.

 

[dirtyJohn]

Thanks for your responses. I figured some of you civil war relic guys would know since you educated yourselves on the various bullets in that time.