Is this a bullet?

[lcirak]

Someone on another forum suggested this looked like a mushroomed bullet. Any ideas?

 

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[RTR]

Could be,whats the weight ? looks big ,possible 12 gauge slug

 

[lcirak]

12 grams.

 

[RTR]

12 grams.

not 12 gauge slug

 

[crashbandicoot]

Is it lead or other soft metal?I,m not feeling bullet,looks like some kind of gear or cog.I could be and often am wrong of course.Just my two cents.Jim.

 

[SweepNbeep]

It is a bullet I believe. 12 grams puts it at just over 185 grains. A good bullet designed to take big game animals will retain the vast majority of it’s weight, 90% or more. So I would assume it was probably a 200 grain bullet which is fairly common in the larger, magnum type rifles of the later half of the 20th century, and still sold today. Without knowing the diameter of your bullet, I’m going to guess it’s from a .300 Win Mag, 7mm, or .30-06. It has the classic mushroom shape of a bullet that made impact with something soft such as a deer or moose. If it had hit rocks or trees, or dirt it probably wouldn’t be so perfectly mushroomed out like that. A large bullet such as that can easily pass completely through a deer and come out the other side, in which case the hunter would have never found it, or even try to. It’s a pretty common find actually, but cool none the less. I still save every bullet I find, the more common and modern ones go in a glass jar, and are still cool to look at. If your object is made of lead, or shows signs of a copper jacket, it is almost certainly a bullet.

 

[Tedyoh]

I see no rifling on the base and never seen a bullet or slug mushroom like that....my guess is something else.....possibly a .410 slug shot from a smooth bore barrel.....but again....never seen a mushroomed "pattern" like that.

 

[Timbermaster]

Hard to tell for sure from the photos but I’m going to say no, it’s not a bullet.