✅ SOLVED Any Ideas

[RelicHnter]

Bullet is .576 cir. .951 tall deep v

 

[Tony in SC]

58 cal with a ram rod impression?

 

[RW]

Shotgun slug? 28g maybe?

 

[sawmill man]

I maby wrong but wasent someone else on here finding bullets like that. seams like there was somewhere .

 

[DCMatt]

58 cal with a ram rod impression?

 

[Yak1366]

Interesting segment of grooves? What does the cavity look like?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The "high" base-ring and the somewhat-smeared flat-bottomed grooves mean it is a FIRED civil war .58-caliber 3-groove "US Regulation made by Williams" Minie-bullet. Yes, the indention which encircles its nose was made by hard impact by the ramrod during muzzle-loading the bullet. I'd post a photo showing an unfired one, but my computer died this afternoon, and I'm using my wife's Notebook.

By the way... the photo posted by DCMatt shows another version of 3-groove Minie, one whose nose-cone got "engraved" by the pointed twisting arms of a double-helix bulletworm... not by a ramrod.

 

[Yak1366]

RelicHnter could you post more profile pics?

 

[RelicHnter]

Thanks everyone for the help. [More to come/B]