Fired lead bullets with cylinder flat ends?

[Underwonder]

These two items were found in a park along FL east coast about 3” down and look like some kind of lead bullets, but they each have a cylinder looking back side and the diameters of the cylinders are different sizes. Any ideas?
Bullets or something else?
Kind?
Age?
Thanks for looking!

 

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[skateandcreate]

Modern bullets. Looks like 9mm/.380 and a .40/.45

 

[Underwonder]

Thanks, skateandcreate.

 

[Roundness]

I agree with Zach. Modern pistol bullets.

 

[Underwonder]

Thanks, Roundness. So I wonder why I am finding modern pistol bullets in a park. Who would be firing them there?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

As far as why? Because someone shot a gun there, or someone used gravel or topsoil from a quarry where people shot (very common).

I was sexton of a 100 year old church and we pulled a section of wood over dirt flooring up in the unfinished utilities room and I found .45 ACP cases and fired bullets. Someone making sure a pistol worked? A murder? Who knows?

 

[vhs07]

As far as why? Because someone shot a gun there, or someone used gravel or topsoil from a quarry where people shot (very common).

I was sexton of a 100 year old church and we pulled a section of wood over dirt flooring up in the unfinished utilities room and I found .45 ACP cases and fired bullets. Someone making sure a pistol worked? A murder? Who knows?

I had to google what a Sexton was. Learn something new on here all the time.

 

[Roundness]

Thanks, Roundness. So I wonder why I am finding modern pistol bullets in a park. Who would be firing them there?

When I was able to dig the parks around me, I found several fired bullets. Maybe from the dirt being hauled in, illegal activity, who knows, but they always seem to be there.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I find bullets in tot lots that have impacted the playground equipment, they are common to be found in parks at least around Fresno,Ca.

 

[smokeythecat]

Do you want to ask why modern fired bullets in a park? I got a laugh when we discovered my friend's farm was littered with Thompson submachine gun bullets. That must have been fun a long, long time ago.

 

[Calgarychef]

Even here in Canada where handguns are only legal to use at ranges (pity) I find handgun bullets all over the parks.