A few CW finds...

[Wldbil]

Got to hunt a well known camp site this past weekend and found a few .69 caliber balls, a chewed .69 and some buck balls. The tooth was just laying out in the field, so I grabbed it for my son, he loves it. Some kind of canine I believe. Does anyone know what the more modern 2 ring bullet is? Thanks for looking and hope everyone gets out soon!!!

 

[VOL1266-X]

Nice ones Bill. The modern day bullet looks like a muzzleloader bullet. It appears to have checkering in the groove and that plus a thick cavity wall are dead giveaways. HH, Q.

 

[Wldbil]

Nice ones Bill. The modern day bullet looks like a muzzleloader bullet. It appears to have checkering in the groove and that plus a thick cavity wall are dead giveaways. HH, Q.

Thanks Quindy... I appreciate it!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Precision measuring is crucially needed for certainty when trying to ID a mystery-bullet. Please measure your bullet's diameter in hundredths-of-an-inch by using a digital caliper, and tell us the measurement. Until then, having only photos to go by, all I can say is: 1- Your bullet has been fired, which tends to narrow the original width of a bullet's body-grooves. 2- It APPEARS to be a fired .45-caliber Colt Army Model-1874 Revolver bullet. Compare it with the sideview and baseview photos of the one in the photo, below. However, comparing your bullet with what you say are .69-caliber (.64-inch diameter) musketballs in your photo, your mystery-bullet looks larger than a .45-caliber. That is why we must have precise measurement of its diameter to ID it with certainty. If we are indeed seeing "reeding" (multiple tiny parallel ridges) in the body-groove, it dates from 1878 at the very earliest, and is probably from the 1880s or 1890s.

 

[markp]

good digs

 

[vpnavy]

Thanks for sharing...