🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Modern bullet?

[Nathan W]

Found this along a wagon road in the woods near a river. Wasn’t sure if modern or older

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Modern? 20th century, but possibly early. So . . . 120 years(?)

 

[Almy]

Diameter measurement and weight would help ID it. I agree it's likely early 20th, or perhaps late 19th century unless it is a modern casting for an old caliber. There are lots of handloaders who make ammunition for their vintage guns.

 

[ColtsPop]

It appears to be a Savage, so Civil War range. Caliber would be the tell. White patination suggests it’s pre-1910ish

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Civil war era Savage bullets had a plain flat solid base, not the shallow "dish" cavity seen on your bullet.

Does your bullet's body-groove have multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove? (See the photo below.) That is called a "reeded groove" or a "knurled cannelure" -- which first appears around 1877... and did not become commonplace until the 1890s.

 

[ColtsPop]

Civil war era Savage bullets had a plain flat solid base, not the shallow "dish" cavity seen on your bullet.

Does your bullet's body-groove have multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove? (See the photo below.) That is called a "reeded groove" or a "knurled cannelure" -- which first appears around 1877... and did not become commonplace until the 1890s.

^^ Always trust what this guy says ^^

 

[Nathan W]

Civil war era Savage bullets had a plain flat solid base, not the shallow "dish" cavity seen on your bullet.

Does your bullet's body-groove have multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove? (See the photo below.) That is called a "reeded groove" or a "knurled cannelure" -- which first appears around 1877... and did not become commonplace until the 1890s.

It appears it has or did have traces of the parallel groves

 

[fyrffytr1]

You can take what TheCannonballGuy says to the bank.