Need help identifying a possible bullet

[Maniac Detector]

Found this close to 4 inches down. It has one ring around it, showed up as lead, and soft. Any help is appreciated.

 

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[AU Seeker]

It looks like it is a bullet, can you post the size as accurately as possible of this please?

 

[Maniac Detector]

3/4 of an inch long and over 1/4 of an inch bore

 

[nova treasure]

it looks like you have a Maynard bullet
Bill

 

[Maniac Detector]

I think your right! Thanks!

 

[nova treasure]

I hope I am right, but also hoping a couple others will add their thoughts on it. A maynard bullet is pretty hard to come by, being a maynard carbine was mainly carried by the Confederates. Another history tidbit, the Maynard rifle was actually made by a Dentist, if memory serves me right. Bill

 

[ekeisler]

Here's my carved Maynard I found in a Union camp.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Maniac Detector, your bullet does resemble a civil war era Maynard Carbine bullet. However... you said its length is 3/4-inch and its diameter is "over 1/4 of an inch bore." In the photo, it looks less than 1/2-inch diameter, so that excludes one of the two calibers of civil war era Maynard bullets. The other caliber was .36-caliber. The shape of your bullets nose is different from the civil war .36 Maynard bullet. Yours MIGHT have been "whittled-on" -- which would explain the sifferent nose-shape. We need super-precise measurement (in hundredths-of-an-inch) of your bullet's diameter, measured slightly above the groove. If it isn't "right-at" .36-to-.37, it isn't a civil war era Maynard bullet.

 

[Kieth-Tx]

Possibly a Hanoverian

 

[Maniac Detector]

Thanks, will get on those measurements asap!

 

[Maniac Detector]

Approximately it is .6875 of an inch long and .375 wide. Hope that helps! Thanks

 

[Maniac Detector]

Here's my carved Maynard I found in a Union camp.

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VERY cool bit of lead you have there!

 

[ekeisler]

VERY cool bit of lead you have there!

Thanks I also found an 1847 large cent and 3 .58 caliber 3 ringers.

 

[AreYouSerious]

thought colt but not

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Could it be a Dimick? But I don't know if Dimmick's had flat bases? I'm not up on CW era bullets.

 

[Maniac Detector]

Well the funny thing is, I dug this 3 mi from the Mississippi river in Quincy IL. Sooo no matter how much I hope, I dout its civil war.