Worm-Slicer
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These are some of my most rare pieces I've ever dug up. They were unknown at the time. Even veteran relic hunters that had been hunting 40+ years had no clue about them. Well it turned out to be an experimental muzzle loading bullet (the barrel was even supposed to have a depression to hold this bullet as can be seen in the patent) and even the world's foremost expert on Civil War bullets had no clue about it until he discovered the patent. It's the Confederate C.A. McEvoy cartridge and was supposed to be re-loadable and also to prevent rashes caused by soldiers biting off the paper on typical rounds. You can look closely in my photos and see the little brass fins in the back of the cartridge. I found these in five feet deep hut pits all in the same location. To my knowledge, only two others were found and all known came from this same, very small location. I managed to find two in one hut, then a few years later I got into a hut pit and found another one along with two crushed hulls. The one with the individual bullet was the first one I found and it was a blob of iron and not knowing what it was, I crushed it in my hand(Still sick of this one.) It does show the bullet design though and it has a little nipple inside it. I thought I would share this with all the bullet posts here. This is perhaps one of my rarest finds ever. There is a Union version called the E.C. Dunning. I'm not sure if any of those have been found or not, but it was patented a year later, so apparently they copied this southern version. These are a prized centerpiece of my collection and as far as bullets go, I'll never find any more rare than these.
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