Any ideas on a backyard find?

[HI-McDunnogh]

I found this about 4" down in the back yard today. It hit really strong for being so tiny.

Any ideas?

 

[mk4125]

Looks like a small caliber, lead bullet.

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

Looks like a small caliber, lead bullet.

Appreciate the help.

When would something like this have been shot/produced?

 

[pistol-pete]

No rifling and mushroomed sideways if it is. I doubt it is a bullet

 

[Rookster]

What did it ring up on the machine?

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

What did it ring up on the machine?

Probably should've included that from the get go.... hit at 71.

 

[Reanm8er]

maybe ricocheted off a tree.

 

[invent4hir]

Perhaps a lead drop. I found some a few years ago in the vicinity of a homemade bullet that had been chewed by a hog.

 

[signal_line]

Perhaps a lead drop. I found some a few years ago in the vicinity of a homemade bullet that had been chewed by a hog.

chewed AND passed

 

[Peyton Manning]

Passed?

 

[T.C.]

Passed?

Passed out the north end of a south bound hog.

 

[Nitric]

I'm not sure that's a bullet. What is the dark brown? The outside doesn't look lead to me.

I may be seeing things wrong, but when I blow the pics up it looks like a sandstone looking material. I've just never seen lead that looks like that. It doesn't have that white or gray look.

Maybe, it is and I've just never seen bullets come out of the ground from VA..That could be too.... and....I don't have a better ID.

 

[roy2bears]

If lead a sinker from a seine or net . Is the brown dirt?

 

[Holyground]

I've found a few of those. It's a gall stone. People used to go out into the back yard to pass them so they wouldn't scare the kids with all that screaming.

 

[BIGSCOTT]

hematite, encased in some other natural mineral

 

[d2]

Looks like a fired and deformed pistol bullet to me...d2

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

Appreciate all of the ideas folks.... I'm thinking this might be one of those where I don't get anything definitive.

 

[signal_line]

I have an AT Gold and it really hits hard on lead, too. Looking at the numbers scale in the manual (page 21), 71 is in the upper part of the lead projectiles zone. That must be really old with that thick of crust.

 

[s.c.shooter]

Possibly a lead ball from a 00 buck shotgun shell