✅ SOLVED OLD WEST BALL ROUND AND ?

[DIGITMAN]

I dug the ball and the casing buy Texas point...A hydrolic minning area in so. cal. IS it a Ball round ? and what does the H mean on the casing,are they old west ?

 

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[huntsman53]

Frank thats a big slug ! for what a bear ? are the ball rounds of an earlier pistal ? the area got shut down in 1880s for bad ground water and a shooting.

I meant the casing not the ball! The outside casing diameter of 13mm equals 0.5118110236226 caliber! The ball is probably not a ball round at all as 16mm equates to almost .63 caliber (0.6299212598432) but it is possible that it may have been used in an old European Muzzleloading Rifle. Of course these sizes could be wrong since a ruler was used and not a micrometer!


Frank

 

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[DIGITMAN]

Thanks..Ill go back to texas point this weekend,see what else i find,And buy a Micromiter,see ya.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The measurement of the ball being 16mm seems to be incorrect. You say the diameter of the bullet-casing's "tube" is about 13mm, and your first group of photos show the ball is smaller than the opening in the "tube."

A precision-measuring Digital Caliper, like the one in the photo below, can be bought online from Harbor Freight Tools (or on Ebay, or at Home Depot stores) for about $15. It's well worth that price, because super-precise measuring is ery important for correctly identifying other relics, such as belt-buckles, coins, and buttons.

I'm going to wait for precise measurement of the bullet-casing before I say anything else about it.

 

[huntsman53]

The measurement of the ball being 16mm seems to be incorrect. You say the diameter of the bullet-casing's "tube" is about 13mm, and your first group of photos show the ball is smaller than the opening in the "tube."

A precision-measuring Digital Caliper, like the one in the photo below, can be bought online from Harbor Freight Tools (or on Ebay, or at Home Depot stores) for about $15. It's well worth that price, because super-precise measuring is ery important for correctly identifying other relics, such as belt-buckles, coins, and buttons.

I'm going to wait for precise measurement of the bullet-casing before I say anything else about it.

After reading your post, I went back and looked at the photos again! You are right, the measurement of the round ball is wrong and by sizing up where they fall between the millimeter lines on the ruler, they appear to be 13mm and if so, they are probably .50 caliber lead balls. Sorry, I should have noticed this before!


Frank

 

[DIGITMAN]

Hello Frank and Cannonball guy , I bought the digital Calipers and my ruler was pretty close with the casing,but WRONG on the ball rounds.the new pictures say it all.Also to clairify the casing is of iits own..and the ball rounds i found in different area of canyon.are ball rounds older then the casing ?

 

[Hobojo]

Peace to all and HH, recently my wife and I spent a week in Idaho. We managed to dig some small but cool finds.
One of the finds matched the round on this thread
We spent some time measuring and looking for possible candidates on the net. Based on our search we have concluded that it might be a Spencer .56-52 rimfire. We could be wrong but I think that based on the measurements and location where it was found that this is a pretty good guess for the round in discussion on this thread and the round we found.