Old bullet

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Wondering if someone could help me with this bullet I found metal detecting it looks old and looks like brass it's 1" long by a 1/2" in diameter just wondering if its old and how old thanks

 

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[ripvanb]

Kind of looks like a fishing weight

 

[Mine Shaft]

Whats stuck in the hole ? looks like wood ?

 

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Yep it does have wood stuck in it

 

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Kind of but it doesn't have a hole thru it

 

[Tony in SC]

Modern plated hollow pint.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Tony is right, mostly. It is a copper-jacketed (not "plated") hollowpoint bullet from sometime in the 20th Century. The copper jacket is manufactured separately from the bullet's lead body, and is MUCH thicker than plating. Here's a photo showing a sawed-in-half copperjacketed bullet, on the left, but that one not a hollowpoint. The other photos shows the hollowpoint version.

Although you say your bullet's diameter is 1/2-inch, its body is too short to be a .50-caliber US Machine Gun bullet... so it is probably a .45-caliber.

 

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Thanks for the info I appreciate it