✅ SOLVED Cast iron or steel....bearing?

[RVRoamer74]

Found this large ball hunting the woods in Northeast Virginia. I can't come up with anything that is this size even after beating the rust off of it with a hammer. Could it just be a large bearing?
Sticks to a magnet big time..thinking shotgun pumpkin balls are made of lead.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Icewing]

It's ammo alright.... for a slingshot.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=slingshot+ammo&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=MOZB

 

[RVRoamer74]

It's ammo alright.... for a slingshot.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=slingshot+ammo&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=MOZB

Don't recall calling it ammo....just asking what it may be. Maybe a bearing, probably not for a sling shot...lol..

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You say you found it in "northeastern" Virginia. It could be a civil war artillery Rifled Canister ammo ball, IF there was some civil war Rifled Artillery (Parrott Rifle, Ordnance Rifle, etc) firing at the spot where you found the ball. If not, then it most probably is a ball-bearing, or perhaps a slingshot ball.

I specified Rifled artillery because all of the Smoothbore cannon (such as a 12-pounder Napoleon Gun) canister ammo balls are larger than the ball you found.

 

[Icewing]

 

[RVRoamer74]

You say you found it in "northeastern" Virginia. It could be a civil war artillery Rifled Canister ammo ball, IF there was some civil war Rifled Artillery (Parrott Rifle, Ordnance Rifle, etc) firing at the spot where you found the ball. If not, then it most probably is a ball-bearing, or perhaps a slingshot ball.

I specified Rifled artillery because all of the Smoothbore cannon (such as a 12-pounder Napoleon Gun) canister ammo balls are larger than the ball you found.

Thanks! Either way.....I'd hate to be smacked upside the head with that bad boy...lights out!!

BTW...saw a long ago post of yours about taking a hammer to the ball of rust...cool..