CW Bullet??? SOLVED

[eclipsegt3]

dug this about 4 inchs down in rock!! looks very old.. could it be a CW bullet

Edit.. the bottom of the bullet isnt flat its on a slight grade... and the groove around the bottom is wider in some areas and doesnt go all the way around it. about a 3/16 to 1/4 inch gap in the grooving, as seen in the top right photo, hope this helps

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Re: CW Bullet

Sorry to have to disappoint you ...but your bullet is definitely from a later era than the Civil War era.

Your bullet has what is known as a "reeded" groove. In other words, the groove looks like the edge of a US dime was pressed into the bullet, all the way around the bullet's diameter, creating a groove filled with many-many tiny parallel lines inside it. The "reeded" grooving of bullets first shows up around the second half of the 1870s (plus or minus a few years), and is still being manufactured today.

 

[wstgo]

Re: CW Bullet

good info, I have a bunch of bullets that i believe are civil war era that I need to date