Bullet?

[inkslinger74r]

I was metal detecting my uncles property where there was supposed to have been civil war activity. I found a shoe heel plate and this. It looks like it could be a bullet, but I'm not sure. It was in the middle of a 20 acre field.

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

Are you on Instagram? I think I follow you lol

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

Asides from that it somewhat resembles a Pickett bullet from the CW but I believe it's modern.

 

[inkslinger74r]

Yep. That's me.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

In the photo it looks like it is not made of lead or a lead-alloy, and if that assumption is correct, it is not a civil war era bullet.

In the photo, it looks like it is made of brass or copper. There are "copper-jacketed" lead bullets from the very-late 1800s and afterward... but it's not shaped one of those.)

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

In the photo it looks like it is not made of lead or a lead-alloy, and if that assumption is correct, it is not a civil war era bullet.

In the photo, it looks like it is made of brass or copper. There are "copper-jacketed" lead bullets from the very-late 1800s and afterward... but it's not shaped one of those.)

I see what you are saying about the color. But I have found CW bullets with that color. It's the soil. I agree that it's not CW though.

 

[inkslinger74r]

It is lead. Soft and heavy.

 

[inkslinger74r]

It is discolored from the ground.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Looks like a stud from a dog collar.

 

[allen_idaho]

I think it most closely resembles either a .44 colt or .36 colt pistol round. But I don't think that it is either.

 

[inkslinger74r]

I'm thinking it probably isn't a bullet. It doesn't look like it would fly very good if it was. It was just odd where I found it.

 

[THUNDERCHIEF]

Could it be an old fishing weight? Maybe the hole is where the eye-loop was attached?

 

[inkslinger74r]

I think it could be.