Mystery CW bullet and strange pipe thingamajig

[rastinirv]

Good evening, experts!

I found a bullet today in the same area where I was finding regular 3-ringers. It's a bit different (the one on the left with the rounded top) and I hoped someone would tell me what it is.

Also found this brass pipe/tubing fitted into a rubber stopper. Looks familiar but I can't think of what it is. By the way, that's a Lincoln cent in the picture for scale.

Okay, do your magic! Thanks!

 

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[bigfoot1]

lol....bottom picture vintage 1980s water pipe part.yup its for wacky tobacky....lol

 

[bigfoot1]

btw...errr...uhhhh...I musta read that somewhere...ya thats it...I read it

 

[Michigandirtdigger]

small hand held water pipe circa 1970's

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your mystery CW bullet is definitely a "hard-rammed" and fired US .58 Williams Regulation minie. Firing squeezed its flat-bottomed grooves a bit narrower than you see on an unfired one. Distinct ramrod mark is visible on the undamaged part of your minie's nose.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Forgot to mention, there are two versions of the Williams Regulation minie. Yours is the longer version. The base is shorter on the other version.

Also, your hard-rammed minie's nose was compressed to a rounded shape by the inside of an Enfield ramrod's nouth. The inside of a civil war era Springfield ramrod's mouth is conical. So, your minie was fired from an Enfield rifle. Contrary to widespread belief among diggers, the yankee armies had lots of Enfield rifles -- not just the Confederates.

 

[mical66]

lol,,
im glad to see BF1 spoke up first about the water pipe , when i seen it that same idea popped into my head quickly followed by
" should i admit i know what it looks like?"

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Forgot to mention, there are two versions of the Williams Regulation minie. Yours is the longer version. The base is shorter on the other version.

Also, your hard-rammed minie's nose was compressed to a rounded shape by the inside of an Enfield ramrod's nouth. The inside of a civil war era Springfield ramrod's mouth is conical. So, your minie was fired from an Enfield rifle. Contrary to widespread belief among diggers, the yankee armies had lots of Enfield rifles -- not just the Confederates.

well...thats a new one for me! makes me question all the enfield bullets ive dug. Yanks or confederates? jeeeez!

 

[rastinirv]

well...thats a new one for me! makes me question all the enfield bullets ive dug. Yanks or confederates? jeeeez!

Okay, that makes sense, because I don't think there ever were any Confederates in Bethesda, MD, to be firing them.