✅ SOLVED longest .22 bullet ever?

[Older The Better]

I was detecting a farm field looking to see if I couldn't tease up anything unusual, I was finding the normal tractor/wagon parts, scraps of cans, and as usual .22 slugs and round balls, then I found this, its lead like a bullet, its got a base like a bullet, its got a tip like a bullet, but there's way too much middle. the largest round ball is a .49 for reference

 

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[augoldminer]

Are you sure its a bullet.

To me after many years mining it looks like a # 6 blasting cap

 

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[Older The Better]

Im pretty confident mine was not a blasting cap there’s nothing to blast in a farm field in the river bottoms... never impossible, but unlikely

 

[Madmox]

Are you sure its a bullet.

To me after many years mining it looks like a # 6 blasting cap

I’m inclined to agree. I don’t think that’s a bullet. It could also be a lead wire splice. We use ones like that in the utility industry, albeit much larger.

 

[Madmox]

Im pretty confident mine was not a blasting cap there’s nothing to blast in a farm field in the river bottoms... never impossible, but unlikely

Nonsense. Farmers have been blasting tree stumps since forever.

 

[Older The Better]

Maybe, Like I said never impossible, but the area was prairie that was frequently burned, I’ve seen pictures from the 60’s and it’s crazy how few trees there are. The only places that people could log were sharp river bends where the trees were protected from fires.

Its easy to forget my “outside” May be very different from others living in places where a farm field had to be carved from the forest, or had 200 more years of European settlers

 

[Reanm8er]

Greetings OTB! I see that this thread has been marked solved, so what was your conclusion?

 

[Older The Better]

I don’t remember haha I just reread the thread and it didn’t help, maybe I thought it could be the mauser or carcano