lead Pea?

[CAPTIANJACK]

First hunt of season and a "what is it". 3/8" lead ball with cast mark running through it. Flat on one side. Any ideas? age?

 

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[EggyOG]

I'm not a gun expert, but it looks like a cast roundball. The flat part is the parting where the sprue was connected from the fill hole. It doesn't look that old to me, old lead turns white.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

3/8" would be the ball size for a .36 cal revolver (0.375").

Age could be 1 to 200 years as that size (0.38 cal) wasn't uncommon in rifles, either.

Muzzleloaders are still being made today in that caliber.

I'd go with the not so old. I reuse my lead and I dig balls out of my dirt backstop that are 10 or 20 years old that are crusty white with oxidation and look as old as CW fodder.

 

[ivan salis]

BLACKPOWDER era type --.36 cal round ball pistol or "squirrel rifle"-- I'd say its a newly made one for a replica gun shooter since there is no oxidation on it -- old lead in the ground tends to have a whitish coating type color due to oxidation.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Its the 'jingle' from the inside of a sleigh bell