musketballs?

[donkarlos]

Found these in a hole on the beach...

 

[donkarlos]

Oh, and they are lead - found five of them along with sinkers and coins. These aren't split-shots

 

[bigfoot1]

they seem a bit random in size and shape for musket balls...the ammo gang will be along and know for sure....perhaps slingshot ammo...just a guess

 

[donkarlos]

I found five of them - they're all the same size, I'd say. Just some have a bit more beach crud on them than others.

 

[BosnMate]

.50 caliber round ball muzzleloader bullets.

 

[donkarlos]

The modern ones, I take it? I started to wonder if they could be buckshot ..

 

[NOLA_Ken]

It's hard to give an age on a round ball, they are still made pertty much exactly the same way as the have been for hundreds of years.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Older muskets usually will turn white or dark brown or sometimes a blackish color. Those seem to be a light bluish so I would Guess early 1900's. but just a guess.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Older muskets usually will turn white or dark brown or sometimes a blackish color. Those seem to be a light bluish so I would Guess early 1900's. but just a guess.

True, but in wet environments that patina doesn't grow. Lead pulled out of water will still look pertty much like the day it was dropped.

 

[donkarlos]

I'm thinking they're modern now . they hunt along this area for deer , and you can't really unload a musket so maybe they just fire out into the water

 

[Bryanhashemi]

True, but in wet environments that patina doesn't grow. Lead pulled out of water will still look pertty much like the day it was dropped.

Thats true too if its in water continously.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

What beach??

 

[donkarlos]

Ocean