Heavy Small Lead Metal Round Object

[cking1114]

I am new at detecting. I have found a lot of junk metal! :P This is the smallest heaviest item i've found. Its rounded on one side, rough, but round.

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[pganjon]

Hello, Looks like a fired minnie ball, do you think it is lead? Thanks and welcome to T-net Paul

[NHBandit]

Odd that you ask what it is but your picture is titled "bullet" Ummm.. it's a bullet, looks modern. What was the question ?

[cking1114]

Well, I thought perhaps it was a bullet, but again I'm completely new at this....I was hoping it was a bullet. Thanks for the replies!

[montepollock]

bullets pop up every where,I,ve found many in modern school yards.
be patient and learn your machines voice,and talk to oldtimers in your area to find the old spots,
and the goodies will come.
HH,And Welcome to TNet,Mont

[PChammer]

Welcome

Can you post a pic of the other side? It looks more like a button to me with the clasp or an old furniture button. Hard to say.

[Monty]

It's a bullet tha hit a rock or something hard and expanded. Monty

[DirtDigler]

I have the unfortunate luck to dig on a farm where the owner is a firearm afficianado. I have shoveled up enough lead to give me brain damage. Everything from shotgun pellets to Parrot rifle shells and Coehorn mortar rounds. What you have there is certainly a bullet. Sometimes they're just too mashed to tell how old, what kind and even what caliber. Welcome to metal detecting, where the only known is that you'll dig something unknown.

[TheCannonballGuy]

It appears to have struck a tree or wooden board, or perhaps a clay embankment.

Noticing its size in comparison to the US quarter, and its wide "mushrooming" (which indicates it is made of soft, very-pure lead), and noting especially the wide cavity in its base... it appears to have the characteristics of a civil war era Minie-ball.

Fortunately, there is reliable data about the precisely-measured weight of many varieties of civil war bullets. Therefore, as long as a civil war bullet isn't missing some of its lead body, we've got a decent chance of figuring out its caliber, even when the bullet is smashed.

Please get your fired bullet weighed on a precise-weight scale, such as a Jeweler's scale, and tell us the weight. Either grams or grains or ounces will do. Just make sure the scale ins't set for Troy ounces.

[Blind.In.Texas]

Looks like it could be .58 to .64 minie leftovers. Found some myself like that. What's the last thing to go through a bug's mind when he hits a windshield? His butt......

[Monty]

Green check time. Monty