My first REV bullets i think.

civil war hunter · Jun 2, 2009

God it was HOT!!.

Me my dads worker and me went to the Ohio river to do some surveys. There was i very old house close by and a field! :hello:

To my luck they didn't need that much help other then trying to find pins with my MDing skills. :headbang:

I did the field for awhile and the first second i got an 1zinc signal on the screen of my metal detector. I dug i big butt hole and said whoops didn't mean to dig that much. I guess it was a good thing loosens up the dirt. ::)

Anyhow it was light signal too. I finely after for ever i popped out a small ball. I thought was a rock but my MD picked it up. I knew what it was too.
I found another one after awhile but a little bigger. I question is is it REV or CW i did some research on here but came across some bullets in the REV topics here.
HELP!

HH CWH Sorry need to search up on my reading posts on here.

briankb70 · Jun 3, 2009

way to go

dcinffxva · Jun 3, 2009

It's hard to tell from the photos the exact size. Measuring them with calipers will help. GENERALLY, Rev. war bullets will be from .72 cal, up to .80 cal (for muskets). The US Models 1795, 1816 and 1842 muskets were .69 cal. This only applies for government made/issued, and wouldn't apply for the huge numbers of Rev. war muskets that were made locally, or privately owned.

Just from appearances, it looks like possibly a .69 and a .31 "buck and ball" load. Could have also been used in the Mexican war/Indian war time frames.

civil war hunter · Jun 3, 2009

Cool thanks. It was by the Ohio river.

dcinffxva said:
It's hard to tell from the photos the exact size. Measuring them with calipers will help. GENERALLY, Rev. war bullets will be from .72 cal, up to .80 cal (for muskets). The US Models 1795, 1816 and 1842 muskets were .69 cal. This only applies for government made/issued, and wouldn't apply for the huge numbers of Rev. war muskets that were made locally, or privately owned.

Just from appearances, it looks like possibly a .69 and a .31 "buck and ball" load. Could have also been used in the Mexican war/Indian war time frames.

allen · Jun 3, 2009

wtg on that musketball !!

l.cutler · Jun 3, 2009

Could also be rifle and smoothbore balls from hunting over the years. Most Revolutionary war muskets were either .69 caliber (French muskets) or .75 caliber (British muskets), but as stated there were many other militia muskets and Dutch muskets , as well as rifles. Nice find anyway!