✅ SOLVED musket ball or fishin weight?

[Pelegzer]

i found it yesterday near to beach in israel in ruins of old village from the 19th century it was on the ground and i dont know if this is modern fishing weight or musket ball.

 

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[No gold in NY]

Your profile doesn't say where you are from. Did you get it way inland? Did you get it panning for gold? Details, Details. Surely a musket ball expert will chime in on this one.

 

[No gold in NY]

Welcome to TreasureNet Pelegzer.

 

[GaRebel1861]

It looks like an unfired musket ball to me. How old? I have no idea.

 

[Pelegzer]

thank you garebe1861

 

[ticndig]

I think it's the jig head to a lure.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Could well be a musket/rifle/pistol ball. Not uncommon for them to have a sprue left after casting.

Not all molds had sprue cutters and you did the best you could.

 

[A2coins]

A fishing weight would be a soft lead you should be able to tell looks like a fishing weight to me

 

[A2coins]

Is there a seam

 

[Tony in SC]

Is that a ram rod imprint on the bottom? Size might help.

 

[fmerg]

what does it measure

 

[nsdq]

Musket ball is possible

 

[njrelicgairl]

Lead Barring

 

[smokeythecat]

Musket ball. No rusted hook remains.

 

[njrelicgairl]

I found Some thing like this i my yard,my brother said that its possibly Lead Bearing ball.

 

[Tony in SC]

Lead was used as a bearing, but not as a ball bearing.

 

[A2coins]

Squeeze it with pliers if a lead fishing weight it will squish some if a musket ball you wont even hurt it.

 

[civil_war22]

Without precise measurements, and weight it’s hard to tell, but I can say that at least 60% of all unfired pistol rounds I find are crudely made, and in an area with lots of camp lead. The sprue is still left on lots of them, either due to them not liking the outcome of their forge or lack of time to cut it, or file it off.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Squeeze it with pliers if a lead fishing weight it will squish some if a musket ball you wont even hurt it.

I respectfully disagree.

I use as soft a lead as I can manage for cast round balls. ESPECIALLY rifle balls for cloth patching. Hard lead is near impossible to load without excess force on the rammer. Soft lead expands and makes larger wounds. It wasn't until breech-loaders that alloys of antimony and zinc were used for hardness because of increased velocity and barrel leading problems.

Fishing jig heads are better hard because the paint won't chip off if they get deformed. Lots of guys use Linotype lead and wheel-weight lead (now they're some zinc alloy) because it was cheap and hard.

 

[civil_war22]

I respectfully disagree.

I use as soft a lead as I can manage for cast round balls. ESPECIALLY rifle balls for cloth patching. Hard lead is near impossible to load without excess force on the rammer. Soft lead expands and makes larger wounds. It wasn't until breech-loaders that alloys of antimony and zinc were used for hardness.

Same here. I use softer due to the fact the bullet has a harder time getting down the bore if it’s too hard. Lots of CW bullets I find are the size of that one he found and if I took pliers to them they would still squash some even after 150+ years underground.