Bullet I.D. Help Needed

[Ripcon]

Here's a pistol bullet I found in a Vicksburg campaign site.
As you can see, it has been fired but it has 7 very nice, defined rifling grooves.
Any idea what pistol could've fired this? It appears to be a .44 caliber.
Thanks for any help.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Again, just enough energy left for one reply-post tonight.

According to the rifling-grooves list on page 169 in the McKee-&-Mason book on civil war bullets/projectiles, there were only two kinds of .44 pistols which had 7-groove rifling, which is what we see on your bullet in the base-view photo. Those two pistols are the .44 Colt and the .44 Tucker & Sherrod. The latter was a rare pistol, while at least 100,000 Colt .44 pistols were used in the civil war. So, the odds heavily favor your pistol bullet having been fired from a .44 Colt. The short-looking bullet is the correct length to be from a Colt New-Model bulletmold.

I must also mention, that's a really major loading-lever impression on your bullet's front end. The pistol's cylinder must have been heavily "fouled" with gunpowder ash from nonstop all-day fighting, causing the pistol's owner to have to use great force to press the bullet into the cylinder.

 

[Ripcon]

Thanks, Cannonball Guy!

 

[Tpmetal]

Again, just enough energy left for one reply-post tonight.

According to the rifling-grooves list on page 169 in the McKee-&-Mason book on civil war bullets/projectiles, there were only two kinds of .44 pistols which had 7-groove rifling, which is what we see on your bullet in the base-view photo. Those two pistols are the .44 Colt and the .44 Tucker & Sherrod. The latter was a rare pistol, while at least 100,000 Colt .44 pistols were used in the civil war. So, the odds heavily favor your pistol bullet having been fired from a .44 Colt. The short-looking bullet is the correct length to be from a Colt New-Model bulletmold.

I must also mention, that's a really major loading-lever impression on your bullet's front end. The pistol's cylinder must have been heavily "fouled" with gunpowder ash from nonstop all-day fighting, causing the pistol's owner to have to use great force to press the bullet into the cylinder.

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