Exploded gun barrel?

[mn9000]

Found this sticking out of a creek in SW Missouri over the weekend. Not 100% positive, but it looks to me like the last few inches of a gun barrel with 2 round balls stacked on top of each other jammed in the barrel.

 

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[nsdq]

Looks like the breech end has been cut off , possible barrel split to over pressure

 

[Davers]

That's Cool as heck..
Banner in my book.

What caliber do you reckon it is 'or the bullets'.

 

[mn9000]

That's Cool as heck..
Banner in my book.

What caliber do you reckon it is 'or the bullets'.

I wish I knew, the balls look quite a bit smaller than the barrel so I'm not sure what was going on there.

I also found what looks like a possible horseshoe sharpened into a weapon laying about 10 feet away. I thought it was just a rusted out horseshoe until I brought it home & cleaned it up. What do you guys think?

I picture in my mind a settler being ambushed by natives, he fires off a shot but the gun over pressures. He throws it down & draws his curved blade knife as a last resort to defend himself and things quickly turn out badly for him. Or at least that's how my vivid imagination sees it haha.

 

[N.O. noir et d'or]

Agreed - Very Cool!

 

[villagenut]

That's just how worn out horse shoes look. I have found lots of shoes that are worn paper thin at the toe....yours is just broken at the thin spot.

 

[mn9000]

Oh very good, thank you for the info Villagenut.

 

[Worm-Slicer]

I'm definitely no expert and was just wondering about how that looks like a separate round pipe inside the iron and looks to be a different metal. I've never seen a gun barrel designed in that manner and all the dug ones I've held they are one solid piece of metal. I hope I'm wrong, but doesn't look like a gun barrel I've ever seen before. As I said though I'm no expert on gun barrels so I would love to learn if I'm wrong about that.

 

[Worm-Slicer]

After examining the photos more closely. I'm 100% certain it's not a gun barrel. Notice the last picture you see threads. Gun barrels did not have this. It's some kind of piping and the iron could possibly be remnants of a iron nut.

 

[Davers]

I'm definitely no expert and was just wondering about how that looks like a separate round pipe inside the iron and looks to be a different metal. I've never seen a gun barrel designed in that manner and all the dug ones I've held they are one solid piece of metal. I hope I'm wrong, but doesn't look like a gun barrel I've ever seen before. As I said though I'm no expert on gun barrels so I would love to learn if I'm wrong about that.

Hey.
I'm learning here to, lol ; Heck I'm still wondering if the bullets are pointed.

Now that I look better, it does seem that the barrel would be kinda thin.

An interesting 'mystery' piece indeed.

 

[hbru123]

That's a very interesting piece!