✅ SOLVED longest .22 bullet ever?

[Older The Better]

I was detecting a farm field looking to see if I couldn't tease up anything unusual, I was finding the normal tractor/wagon parts, scraps of cans, and as usual .22 slugs and round balls, then I found this, its lead like a bullet, its got a base like a bullet, its got a tip like a bullet, but there's way too much middle. the largest round ball is a .49 for reference

 

[TomPA]

Maybe it was part of a much longer piece and was used for bullet making (cutting off pieces for the mold). It looks like it was nicked with a blade. Just a guess.

 

[Red James Cash]

Your .49 ball is for a .50 rifle.Not a musket.

 

[sawmill man]

Your long bullet could be from a 22- 250. Remington.

 

[Tony in SC]

If it is a bullet it is probably a 6mm. I have seen a 6mm about that long but not without a jacket?

 

[Older The Better]

might be misunderstanding you red james cash, but the largest hunk of lead in the pic I would agree is from a rifle because you can sill see the base, I'm not sure what caliber I think too much lead for a .22 but not a good size reference if I dont know what it is
the largest of the round balls is .50 cal according to my digital scale and a conversion table.

tony and sawmill you may be along the right lines, I find .243 and .270 casings around the field and jacketed slugs in it from deer hunting, maybe somehow the lead separated from the jacket

 

[A2coins]

Nice relics I wonder why you would need a bullt that long? Looks like a fun place to hunt

 

[Yak1366]

Nice finds, congrats!!!

 

[Red James Cash]

might be misunderstanding you red james cash, but the largest hunk of lead in the pic I would agree is from a rifle because you can sill see the base, I'm not sure what caliber I think too much lead for a .22 but not a good size reference if I dont know what it is
the largest of the round balls is .50 cal according to my digital scale and a conversion table.

I believe you are,I'm talking about one of your round balls,not the bullet at the bottom of the picture.

 

[Older The Better]

thought I might be, but I wanted to eliminate the obvious first.
im no expert on lead balls why is it from a rifle over a musket?

 

[Older The Better]

thought I might be, but I wanted to eliminate the obvious first.
im no expert on lead balls why is it from a rifle over a musket?

 

[Red James Cash]

muskets were large bore usually .69 or bigger.I use to shoot a .50 muzzle loading rifle.The balls usually Mic at around .494 give or take.The ball has to be smaller than the rifle bore so you can put a patch on the ball so it grips the rifling.

 

[Madmox]

Could be 6.5mm jap. That's a helluva long bullet too.

 

[Red James Cash]

Good call,forgot about the arisaka.

 

[Icewing]

I don't think the long bent piece is a bullet at all

 

[Older The Better]

may not be icewing, I really have no idea, I cant come up with anything else shaped like that I dont see how it would connect securely with anything and I dont see a function as it is. So I just went with what it most closely resembled, a bullet.

 

[Madmox]

It's a lead suppository

 

[Red James Cash]

It's a lead suppository

If it's a bullet and it hit somebody in the azz,yeah,I guess you could call it that.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

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I was detecting a farm field looking to see if I couldn't tease up anything unusual, I was finding the normal tractor/wagon parts, scraps of cans, and as usual .22 slugs and round balls, then I found this, its lead like a bullet, its got a base like a bullet, its got a tip like a bullet, but there's way too much middle. the largest round ball is a .49 for reference

Is it copper jacketed? 6.5mm bullets are up to 1.5" long (0.264" diameter) but invariably copper jacketed. My "modern" deer rifle is a .260 Rem that is kind of an updated 6.5 x 55mm Mauser.

 

[Older The Better]

if it was jacketed it separated from the core and at some distance from where I found it, it was an isolated hit on my big new coil. I was googling some of your suggestions and came across this

the 6.5 x 52 carcano looks like a winner, but an Italian/german military round ending up in a farm field in Kansas seems unlikely, im wondering if there is an American equivalent that matches as closely.