RingMaster44
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- Apr 3, 2013
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ThanksThe 3 Ringer is great, well done..
do you think it's chewedThanks
Maybe,Cool find! I think it has been chewed by rodents and plows, but probably not people.
Thanks manI've found quite a few of these over the years that have apparently been dug up and chewed by squirrels, and there was one field I used to hunt where the farmer used to let his hogs out there after harvest and they would root them up and chew on them! Have no idea why! Anyways congrats on the the find!
Ok cool I wonder if it isI think the teeth marks are explained by soldiers biting down on them. Not sure if that's what's on your bullet or not but I believe when field amputations and things of the sort occurred. They'd bite down on them, because they weren't administering iv pain killers or anesthetic. Pain bullet, also where the term bite the bullet supposedly comes from
Yeah I don't think it a rodent eitherI have found them with very obvious teeth marks that leave little doubt as to them being human. Lot's of controversy over the chewed bullets, but yours doesn't look like just a rodent to me. The larger deeper gouges anyway. Just my 2 cents.
Ok coolHere is some good insight reading: Myth No. 2: Biting on the Bullet For Pain ? George Wunderlich | Civil War Scholars: The Powerful Experience of the War-Torn, Northern Shenandoah Valley even talks about it on ebay: HOSPITAL or PAIN BULLETS | eBay