✅ SOLVED Lead bullet or what ?

[Roger Mn.]

I found this today and it looks like a bullet made into a sinker. I used a needle nose pliers and tried to twist the loop out of the lead but it wouldn't budge . Any bullet experts on here know what it is ?

 

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[sutphin]

man that is neat.if it was me I would leave all together, that's a rare find .

 

[bigfoot1]

That would be my favorite bullet....very cool..

 

[Tony in SC]

I have been told that bullet molds were used to make sinkers, but this is the first that I've ever seen. Tony

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Neat, but the cod line tied to it looks synthetic which would make it modern. If you hold a lighter to it and it melts it's post WWII. If it chars - earlier.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry to have to answer that your .58 caliber lead bullet is a modern-era "Lyman Mold" imitation of a civil war 3-groove Minie bullet, made for use by 20th Century blackpowder rifle shooters. The ID-clues for it are the wide-spaced very deep grooves, and flat-tipped nose. For verification, go to the following online catalog of Lyman Mold bullets and scroll all the way down to the bottom row, where your bullet is listed as #575213:
Ol' Buffalo Bullet Mold Tables

 

[Roger Mn.]

Sorry to have to answer that your .58 caliber lead bullet is a modern-era "Lyman Mold" imitation of a civil war 3-groove Minie bullet, made for use by 20th Century blackpowder rifle shooters. The ID-clues for it are the wide-spaced very deep grooves, and flat-tipped nose. For verification, go to the following online catalog of Lyman Mold bullets and scroll all the way down to the bottom row, where your bullet is listed as #575213:
Ol' Buffalo Bullet Mold Tables

Thanks for the ID and your time spent looking this up. I put it on the scale and it comes out 32.71 g. That's a loss of 17.79 g. It is worn and the inside may have been drilled to insert the loop. Or was the iron loop put in when it was molded. Not sure that could be done unless the mold was made to hold the iron loop. I held it up to the picture of the #575213 and eyeballed it and it looks to be the same.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

As you guessed, it's much-much simpler to add the wire loop after the bullet is cast. Your bullet has a large cone-shaped cavity in its base, which was formed by part of the iron/steel bulletmold. It's impossible to cast the bullet with a wire loop in that type of bulletmold.

 

[Roger Mn.]

Neat, but the cod line tied to it looks synthetic which would make it modern. If you hold a lighter to it and it melts it's post WWII. If it chars - earlier.

Thanks Charlie P . I can tell it's synthetic because it stretches when I pull on it.

 

[Roger Mn.]

As you guessed, it's much-much simpler to add the wire loop after the bullet is cast. Your bullet has a large cone-shaped cavity in its base, which was formed by part of the iron/steel bulletmold. It's impossible to cast the bullet with a wire loop in that type of bulletmold.

Thanks again to TheCannonballGuy .