old semi-wadcutter?

[kyphote]

This looks like a wadcutter to me, but how far back do wadcutters go? I know it's not Civil War but it's got that bleached look. Ideas on age? Thanks!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Looks like one to me?? Lead doesn't necessarily have to have that bleached look to be period.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks more like an "upset" solid-base hollow-point to me.

I think wadcutters only go back to the 1930's of so. But a lead hollow point could be older or cast this morning. I still cast round balls that are identical to those used in the Revolutionary War and earlier. After five years in the soil they look ancient. It's all about where found and near what.

 

[kyphote]

Looks more like an "upset" solid-base hollow-point to me.

I think wadcutters only go back to the 1930's of so. But a lead hollow point could be older or cast this morning. I still cast round balls that are identical to those used in the Revolutionary War and earlier. After five years in the soil they look ancient. It's all about where found and near what.

Thanks. It was found on a CW campsite that produced a lot of old bullets and a lot of obviously recent ones. By recent I mean 10 - 50 years old and it was obvious they were modern. This particular bullet seemed to fall beyond that range, and I was guessing turn of the century while questioning whether wadcutters were even around then. I have a bucket full of junk bullets and none of them look like this.

 

[Monty]

I agree with Charley, most likelly flattened by impact. Check mark? Monty