✅ SOLVED Bullet #10

[fyrffytr1]

Here's #10 in my small collection that I need help with. Hagerstown, Md area (Antietam/Gettysburg). In case Y'all are wondering, it's raining and I can't get out to hunt!!

 

[MentalMetal314]

I'm gonna say based my reference that it's either a .577 cal or .54 cal 3 ring percussion cap rifle musket. I'm from MD myself Silver Run area. I think I have 3 off these but I think I may have them listed as .58 cal on my blog. I have pics out there.

http://mentalmetal314.wix.com/mm314mdm

Cannonballguy will prob chime in and nail it down for you.

 

[dnewbury2]

It looks very similar to a Merrill carbine bullet. M&M #137

 

[mirage83]

It looks very similar to a Merrill carbine bullet. M&M #137

Yeah, the dims aren't quite right (smaller in diameter and somewhat shorter), but it does strongly resemble it.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Dnewbury2's "it looks similar" ID is correct... it is an unfired civil war US .54 Merrill Carbine bullet. This one's original .550" diameter appears to have been reduced to .520" by more than a century of burial in "wet" acidic ground. See bullet #91-B in the updated "Handbook Of Civil war Bullets & Cartridges" by James E. Thomas and Dean S. Thomas.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thank you all. Not too many more to post. Unless I find another box in my closet!