Bullet - is it CW?

[Kent in AL]

Hi all,

Got off work early today and after lunch with the wife, went detecting. Found this lead ball and I'm assuming it's a bullet? Has a very slight flat spot. Sorry for the poor scan, my wife is gone with her camera. I don't have calipers but eyeballing with a ruler shows ~5/8ths which is .625. The only thing close to that caliber I saw on the internet was a that a Le Mat pistol in addition to its nine .42 caliber bullets had a .63 caliber shotgun charge. Any ideas?

Also in the same pic is a greenish watzit and a couple of shotgun brass. I thought the UMC New Club was kinda neat.

Thanks for looking,

Kent

 

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[Felinepeachy]

Here's a link to check the headstamps for dates.

http://members.shaw.ca/cartridge-corner/shotgun.htm

 

[warsawdaddy]

Appears to be Rememington shot shells.The lead ball could be CW but here in the Ozarks,I know people were still using them clear up to the 30's.Couldn't afford anything else.

 

[Kent in AL]

Thanks for the link Felinepeachy!

I thought of that too warsawdaddy. I guess they made bullets before and after the war, folks still hunted - just not each other. I thought it might be CW because I found a Confederate infantry button at this home site a few weeks back but it could have just been one dropped by the family.

Kent

 

[east tx digger]

cool finds