🔎 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

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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.
 

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ivan salis

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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
 

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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
 

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