Strange Bullet ID Needed

[jerseydigs]

 

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[rmoor]

That looks like a more modern cast bullet too me.

 

[gunsil]

My Lyman mold for my .54 muzzle loading rifle casts a flat nosed minie very similar to that. There are hundreds of them in the woods behind my place from target practice. My mold is close to fifty years old but I don't think they were making that pattern much earlier than that.

 

[Gitschlag]

Also possible the tip was cut off for whatever reason, and that it is CW period.

 

[Mudflap]

Maybe a wad cutter.

 

[Rookster]

Looks like a 50 cal. Muzzleloader bullet. Modern