Old Looking White Bullet

[thedukeofdelaware]

Can anyone put an age on this? .16 inch / 4 mm.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

The groove has vertical reeding, so it has to be from the 1880's or newer.

 

[Yak1366]

1877 was the first year for a cannelure bullet.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

There are 4mm Flobert rimfire bullets - but those are invariably almost the same width as length.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Yak1366 wrote:
> "1877 was the first year for a cannelure bullet."

Just trying to be helpful here. No offense intended, but... in regard to a bullet, the word cannelure simply means groove. Various pre-civil-war bullets had body grooves. The first bullets whose body groove was "reeded" (also called "knurled") appeared in 1877.

For anybody here who doesn't already know what we are talking about, see the photo below. It's not the one from 1877, but it shows a bullet with a reeded/knurled cannelure/body-groove. It has multiple tiny parallel ridges in the groove. That type is still being made today... so, having a reeded groove does not necessarily mean a bullet is "really old."

 

[NOLA_Ken]

looks like a .22

 

[mick56]

looks like a .22

+1 on a .22

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

To me it, looks like the bullet in the photo I posted, which is either a .30 or .32-caliber.

Duke, please measure your bullet and tell us whether its diameter is a little bigger than 1/4-inch. or a little smaller.

 

[Yak1366]

Yak1366 wrote:
> "1877 was the first year for a cannelure bullet."

Just trying to be helpful here. No offense intended, but... in regard to a bullet, the word cannelure simply means groove. Various pre-civil-war bullets had body grooves. The first bullets whose body groove was "reeded" (also called "knurled") appeared in 1877.

For anybody here who doesn't already know what we are talking about, see the photo below. It's not the one from 1877, but it shows a bullet with a reeded/knurled cannelure/body-groove. It has multiple tiny parallel ridges in the groove. That type is still being made today... so, having a reeded groove does not necessarily mean a bullet is "really old."

Correction noted.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

going off his measurement of 4mm, without knowing if that measurement was taken in the lands or grooves of the rifling marks, all I come up with is .22

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

.22" is 5.56mm, BB/0.177" is 4.5mm

4mm is teeny tiny. There were such things, but I suspect we need better measurement.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I have a Flobert somewhere. It is much smaller than the OPs. I'll try to find it. I too, suspect the original measurements may be off.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Here's a link to mine. It's a 6mm Flobert, about the same size as a modern 22.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/287751-another-bullet-id.html