🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Fishing weight or musketball?

[Nathan W]

Found some wheat Pennie's and some random iron and this ball. I think it's lead , I didn't know if it was a bullet that struck something or a fishing weight that was to be crimped on a line a

 

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[robertk]

Hard to tell, but it does resemble a "split shot" type of fishing weight. It looks like it has the "ears" on the back, but it's hard to tell. If so, this is what it would look like before being pinched closed.

 

[Nathan W]

Hard to tell, but it does resemble a "split shot" type of fishing weight. It looks like it has the "ears" on the back, but it's hard to tell. If so, this is what it would look like before being pinched closed.

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[robertk]

Still not sure, but it looks more like a sinker than a musket ball to me.

 

[Nathan W]

Still not sure, but it looks more like a sinker than a musket ball to me.

Idk man it does have that one ear , maybe it is a split shot

 

[Nathan W]

Idk man it does have that one ear , maybe it is a split shot

Need cannonball guy to chime in

 

[Jack873]

It looks more like a pistol caliber shot to me. The "ear" looks like a deformation from what ever it hit after being fired.

 

[Nathan W]

It looks more like a pistol caliber shot to me. The "ear" looks like a deformation from what ever it hit after being fired.

I posted it on civil war talk , some of the guys say it's a .44 caliber pistol ball but a few think it might be a sinker with broken ear too so hell I don't know. Would a sinker be oxidized like that . How many years does it take to change color and when did people start using them or t what I got to factor in

 

[Hunter1805]

I have hundreds and hundreds of musket balls from the War of 1812 ... I am 999999999999 % sure its a musket ball.

 

[Nathan W]

I have hundreds and hundreds of musket balls from the War of 1812 ... I am 999999999999 % sure its a musket ball.

Thanks for your response.

 

[robertk]

I have hundreds and hundreds of musket balls from the War of 1812 ... I am 999999999999 % sure its a musket ball.

I must admit, if it's a sinker, it's missing an ear, but I also don't see even the faintest hint of the "split" where it would have been clamped onto the line. So maybe musket ball is more likely.

 

[AU Seeker]

Found some wheat Pennie's and some random iron and this ball. I think it's lead , I didn't know if it was a bullet that struck something or a fishing weight that was to be crimped on a line a

I say musket ball, I have never seen a split shot sinker that big, the largest I have ever seen is a #0 which weights 1/4 ounce, I would say that ball weights at least 2 to 3 times that much.

 

[Nathan W]

I must admit, if it's a sinker, it's missing an ear, but I also don't see even the faintest hint of the "split" where it would have been clamped onto the line. So maybe musket ball is more likely.

Thanks for your response

 

[Nathan W]

I say musket ball, I have never seen a split shot sinker that big, the largest I have ever seen is a #0 which weights 1/4 ounce, I would say that ball weights at least 2 to 3 times that much.

Thanks for looking