New bullet?

[Garabaldi]

How old is this bullet?

 

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[Buck Bagaw]

I'm guessing it's about 8mm from the comparison with the quarter, and it appears to be jacketed. I would date it from the 1890s to recent times.

 

[sasnz]

My guess is a early 20th century bullet

sasnz

 

[Monty]

I agree with Buc. But I am not so sure about the caliber.Monty

 

[Garabaldi]

I dug it in South Boston. I cleaned the bottom and it doesn't say anything

 

[CRAZY-TEXICAN]

Looks like a 7.62 or a 30-30 .

 

[TiredIron]

You can't use Spire point bullets like this in a 30-30 or any other tubular fed rifle without serious risk
of more excitement than you asked for. The single shot and bolt rifles in that cartridge could but that ammo would have to be reloads since the Factories won't load it. This particular projectile from the pictures appears to have a concave base. No new pictures since he cleaned it....and no actual diameter measurement. Other than it was found in the North-East.... I doubt much more can be determined. I would guess it to be at least post 1900 since popularity with jacketed ammo in the U.S. prior to that was limited to the long and round nose projectiles like the Krag and Carcano cartridges used. So...a hundred years is a pretty big window. The patina on the copper looks pretty thick.
With no other information and guessing it is .30cal and weighs approximately 150 grains I'll venture out further on the limb than the others here and say "Its a U.S. .30 Ball Projectile of 1906."
The 30-06 was adopted in 1906 as the "Ball Cartridge, caliber .30, Model of 1906". The nomenclature was eventually shortened to the well known "30.06".
The round designated as "7.62 NATO" wasn't adopted until the early 1950's and was a replacement for the U.S. M2 .30 round mentioned above.

TiredIron

 

[Monty]

I am pretty sure the 7.62 NATO had a boattail bullet too. So if it was around 150 grains and .308 diameter it could be a Springfield or M-1 rifle either one. Wasn't the M14 a 7.62X54? Monty

Oh, and I forgot the Enfield in 30.06 used by the Marine Corps in WWI and early WWII!

 

[TiredIron]

You are correct Sir... most of the U.S. 7.62 Nato rounds were 147 & 150 grain boattail with the exception of tracers and projos of other foreign countries. The 1903-1903A3-A4, 1917, M1 Garrand all used the U.S. .30 M2 Cartridge (30.06) (this doesn't include all the machine guns). The M14, M1A, M60 all use the U.S. 7.62 Nato (7.62X51).
Its tough to try and gleen the history from a picture of a projectile that was (and still is) in use for over 100 years. I have 40k rounds of this I'm still shooting in my watercooled Browning. His picture reminds me of the thousands of bullets I picked up on the beaches of Okinawa when I was there in 1959 at nine years old. Every single one was a treasure...and it crushed me when it was time to come back to the States and they pulled all my boxes of treasures out of our household goods and tossed em'.......

TiredIron

 

[Garabaldi]

I am sorry I didn't take another image of the bottom and try to measure it. I didn't realize there was so much details to bullet heads. When I get home from work I will try and take a measurement (iv'e never done it before) and take more images. You guys are amazing with your details. Thank you for the info.

 

[TiredIron]

Considering what a dissapointment I have been so far in the Metal Detecting arena as far as finding Silver or Gold anything...... I try and make up for it a little in the areas where I can like Vintage Military Weapons, Vehicles, and Aircraft where I dabble in all three. When I'm not flying, driving or shooting I try and wave my F5 & CZ7 around.....only to frustrate myself. I seem to find more enjoyment lately pouring over what all you Xspurts have dug up. In my own defense Colorado and surrounding areas are tough for finding the quanity and quality of items ya'll find near the Right & Left Coasts. People have only been here dropping things for nearly 125-130 years, and the peoples out here didn't have that much to drop I think.
Since I know you must have a scale for weighing all that fine jewelery you find...give me a tight weight on that bullet. If you can't do grains...grams or ounces will work....I'll convert it. My math teacher told me I'd need it someday.

TiredIron