✅ SOLVED Bullet ID please...

[7creeks]

Found this today while hunting an old home site. It looks to me like a fired civil war 3 ringer. This part of Ohio never saw any action, so I'm guessing it was brought back from the war. Any info is appreciated. It weights 482 grains.

 

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[duggap]

They had to have training camps somewhere. But I think it is a minie ball. Fired.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

That bullet sure is seen better days.. Looks like a .69 Teat Base

 

[7creeks]

They had to have training camps somewhere. But I think it is a minie ball. Fired.

The training camp for the area soldiers was 50 miles south.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

civil war 3 ringer. they are found all over even places that never saw action.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It's well-documented that after the end of the civil war, the US Government sold off millions of rifles to "war-surplus" dealers like Bannermann, who sold them to the public for game-hunting. Reportedly, famous World War One sharpshooting soldier Alvin York (born in 1887) used a "war-surplus" civil war muzzleloader rifle for hunting in the Tennessee mountains as a teenager (1900-1906). So, due to "postwar" game-hunting by civilians, fired Minie-balls can be found almost anywhere in the US.

The weight you reported for your 3-groove Minie-ball, 482 grains, is in the correct weight-range for a .58-caliber Minie-ball.