🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I found a knot bullet and underneath it it looks very round but not like the three ringers I normally find is this a confederate

[Truth]

I found a knot bullet and underneath it it looks very round but not like the three ringers I normally find is this a confederate?

18mm long
11mm wide

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Well m'friend, first of all, your bullet has reeded body-grooves (multiple tiny parallel raised ridges inside the body-grooves)... which means your bullet cannot have been made before 1877 (at the very earliest).

Second... your diameter-measurement of it (11mm) and your photos (thanks for giving us three different-angle views) indicate it is a slightly different version of the US Model-1874 Colt Army Revolver bullet dug in Texas by T-Net member Ronson about a month ago.

✅ SOLVED - Prob’ly an easy one for anybody but me… (Minié ball?)

Howdy folks. Yesterday, about a half-hour south of Santa Fe, I dug my first Civil War-era lead slug. Or at least, I thought I did… I’ve had one person opine that it is a “modern, machine-made” Minié ball. (I guessed Sharps .52 cal, but I’m still on vacation and do not have access to the usual...

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[Truth]

Thank you so much TCBG I appreciate the vast knowledge you have your amazing. You have taught me so so much You’re the real treasure

 

[ivan salis]

the parrel grooves are for the cartridge crimping tp seal bullet to case as a gas seal that means its a cartridge case type bullet the hollow back is typical of black powder type bullets to allow the gases to swell outwards making a good fit with the barrel rifling thus its post civil war era blackpowder cartridge ammo pre smokesless powder so about 1880 to early 1900 era

 

[Truth]

the parrel grooves are for the cartridge crimping tp seal bullet to case as a gas seal that means its a cartridge case type bullet the hollow back is typical of black powder type bullets to allow the gases to swell outwards making a good fit with the barrel rifling thus its post civil war era blackpowder cartridge ammo pre smokesless powder so about 1880 to early 1900 era

I appreciate that Ivan I learn something from you guys every day thank you