Im thinking bite bullet.

[clf_02]

I'm thinking bite bullet.

Looks like front teeth marks on one side and jaw tooth mark on other side.

 

[Critical Recovery]

That is a myth.

 

[Peyton Manning]

but it looks like silver? not sure silver is that soft

 

[smokeythecat]

Probably just fired and hit something to flatten it. Chewed bullets do NOT get flattened.

 

[clf_02]

It's lead

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, lead is the general material used. I have a few chewed bullets from Brandywine Battlefield in PA. Dug over 20 years ago. The bite marks are noticeable, but never did the bullets flatten out. Animals, especially pigs, like to chew lead bullets they find. don't know why but I did find a few animal chewed bullets over the years.

 

[clf_02]

May not have been a bullet to start maybe have been camp lead but at some point in time someone definitely bit this

 

[Tnmountains]

When fired and they hit chert it often looks like bite marks.can you imagine the poor health of teeth and chewing on something so hard? Try biting a chunk of lead down like that. Sill a cool find.

 

[Peyton Manning]

ya know, those look like squatch teeth marks.....

 

[John Boy]

Sure looks like a chewed bullet. Cool find

 

[HutSiteDigger]

I have hunted several civil war hospital camps and it is somewhat common to find a couple bullets that have bite marks in them at every hospital i remember hunting.. I can recall at least a few bite bullets that came out of all the hospital spots or spots right next to where a house was in the civil war (since lot of houses were used for civil war hospitals) and I have noticed for me that it is quite rare digging a bunch of bite bullets in a camp.

That being said like SmokeyTheCat mentioned a lot of the bite bullets (in fact i think mostly all) can be from farm animals or smaller animals, I think I can tell in most of my bite bullets that they are from animals though there are a few that I have found right next to a hospital that could be from human bite marks.

I know lot tell about How when a soldier was getting amputated they would give them a bottle of whiskey and then a bullet too bite on. Did this really happen? if you read in some civil war soldiers or medical doctor/staff diaries you will hear that this did occur during treatment for wounds but also a soldier could bite down on leather or something in that nature rather than a bullet but biting on bullets did occur in the civil war.

 

[clf_02]

So what does this look like to you?

 

[HutSiteDigger]

i can somewhat see the two front marks on the front there and if these are bite marks it appears a smaller animal like a squirrel would have done it if you notice the photo of a squirrels teeth they leave impressions kinda like what you have. When I get time i will get a photo of one of the bite bullets I have and show you. When a human bites on something they tend to have a little more crooked type pattern if you get what i am saying, I do not think this was a human bitten bullet and I myself have sat there many of times looking bullets thinking to myself if it is or wasn't and have ruled out a lot of bullets being human bite bullets. I guess really the only way you could go about figuring if it is a human is having a dentist or some crime scene type investigators who are experienced in human bite marks take a look at it and maybe one day i will get around too do doing that with my bullet bite mark collection sora speaking! Good luck!

 

[DJWEHAGE]

Love the find and the debate here. Keep up the thoughts and ideas. TN members offer a lot of useful information. I appreciate all of it!

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[materdigger1]

Awsome find - looks like jaw teeth marks of someone hurting for certain to me - HH