Flat-top bullet ID help

Dougie Webb

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Now that y'all knocked my last two items off the list, I figured I'd add another. I bet this one is easy for someone. Maybe someday I'll learn enough to be useful to this thread!

Put the caliper on this and it appears to be .35 caliber. Overall length of .5 inches. Found in the front yard of my house, which is a suburban neighborhood outside of Atlanta. My neighborhood was nothing but farmland up until about 1965.

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Charlie P. (NY)

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That's the bottom. It was a semi-jacketed bullet - likely a .357 or .38 Special. (both 0.357" bore).

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Dougie Webb

Dougie Webb

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That's the bottom. It was a semi-jacketed bullet - likely a .357 or .38 Special. (both 0.357" bore).

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What about those vertical "stripes?" Does that give any clue? I had a friend look at it today and said he thought it might be from a 348 Winchester.
 

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What about those vertical "stripes?" Does that give any clue? I had a friend look at it today and said he thought it might be from a 348 Winchester.

The vertical lines are called the cannelure or crimping groove. The end of the case is crimped against the grooves so it doesn't have the possibility of coming loose. Gary
 

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Dougie Webb

Dougie Webb

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The vertical lines are called the cannelure or crimping groove. The end of the case is crimped against the grooves so it doesn't have the possibility of coming loose. Gary

Gary, sorry I wasn't clear on that. I was talking about the longer vertical lines running the length of the bullet, not the crimping. XR7ator I think guessed what I was talking about when he said those were rifling marks.
 

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