✅ SOLVED Bullet ID Please and Thank You

[fyrffytr1]

I found this one today here in South Georgia but haven't been able to ID it. It weighs 8 grams on my postal scale. That converts to about 123 grains.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Its body looks nearly identical to a .44 Ballard Rifle bullet... but your bullet isn't a .44-caliber.

In the .36 to .38-caliber rnage of civil war bulets, it most closely resembles a .36 Allen bullet (for .36 Allen & Wheelock Lipfire Revolver). But the Allen bullet actually has a raised band on its body, instead of two grooves.

Because I cannot find an identical match for your bullet's shape and caliber in any of my research library's books of civil war era bullets, I'll have to do additional research, and get back to you later.

I have to mention that your bullet is definitely from a metallic cartridge ...which raises the dreadful possibility that the reason it isn't shown in the M&M and T&T books is that it's from the post-civil-war era. I hope that's not the case this time. I'll let you know if I can discover anything more about it.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thanks. If it helps any, I cannot see any ridges in the grooves. The line around the bottom is something I haven't seen before either. And there is a casting mark across the bottom.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think I have IDed my bullet. I think it is a 40 cal CD Leet. Here's a link to the bullet and a link to the site for anyone interested. My calipers may be off or the bullet could be worn down enough to read as a 38.

19th Century Bullet Collection - Tom Henrique

American Civil War Bullet and Relic Collecting Association

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Friendly advice... try measuring it with the flat-edged section of the caliper's jaws. The knife-edged section of the jaws can be difficult to get precisely "centered" on round-bodied objects. As you see, even a .02-inch error can throw a bullet identification search off down a blind alley.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thanks for the tip. I measured the bullet again as well as another one just like it and they both came in at .395". And, they are both identical to the one in the link.