Found this along a wagon road in the woods near a river. Wasn’t sure if modern or older
^^ Always trust what this guy says ^^Civil war era Savage bullets had a plain flat solid base, not the shallow "dish" cavity seen on your bullet.
Does your bullet's body-groove have multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove? (See the photo below.) That is called a "reeded groove" or a "knurled cannelure" -- which first appears around 1877... and did not become commonplace until the 1890s.
It appears it has or did have traces of the parallel grovesCivil war era Savage bullets had a plain flat solid base, not the shallow "dish" cavity seen on your bullet.
Does your bullet's body-groove have multiple tiny parallel ridges inside the groove? (See the photo below.) That is called a "reeded groove" or a "knurled cannelure" -- which first appears around 1877... and did not become commonplace until the 1890s.