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Is this a musket ball? Not magnetic, about 5/8 diameter
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Sure looks like it. What is the diameter?
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It might be, but diameter and composition are needed. Is it attracted to a magnet? The orangish tint looks kind of like rust but might just be the soil where it was found.
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5/8" = .625" is In the size range of a muzzleloading musket or rifle. Is it heavy like lead? If you could weigh it, a table on the internet would tell you whether the weight for that size of ball is lead.
Welcome to Tnet!!! Could be a musket ball
I’d weigh it like Almy said. With the dimensions and weight You should be able to figure it out with the tables that he suggested.
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Bruh, he legit said it. It's a 5/8 Diameter
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According to (https://classroom.synonym.com/identify-revolutionary-war-musket-balls-7633630.html), the diameter of a musket ball is between 0.39 - 0.80 inches. So, what I need you to do is weigh your musket ball (because they are usually heavy for their size compared to glass balls or marble balls), look for a mold seam or the evidence of a mold seam (which would look like the image down below; Mold Seams on a musket ball would have a line right down the middle or a crack down the middle), then look for a casting sprue (which would look like a bump or a hole on the top of the ball), and carefully clean it professionally (google how to if needed), and if the color is a light tan, white, or a reddish-brown, then it might be a musket ball.
If that ball matches all of these things, then you have a musket ball! Enjoy observing!
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That's fine. I just joined too, like last night, but I know my stuff, and I'm good at researching too. Like I said, try to look for a bump or hole on the top, and look for a line right through the middle. So, if you find that, you might have a musket ball. Where'd you find it by the way?
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Homemade lead gun balls often had mold seams and sprue marks, but they were sometimes filed off too. Many of these balls were factory made and were perfect spheres without any marks. They were shipped from England by the barrel for years in the early colonial days, I recall reading. If you ball is lead, its diameter and patina strongly suggest that it is a muzzleloading gun projectile. They're commonly called "musket balls" but might be for a rifle as well as a smoothbore musket.
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