One ring bullet? Late 1800's? Ghost Town find

[Hunter101]

I was out at the first ghost town of the year. This ghost town was a mining town/tailings area. The mine dates back to 1860. The town FLOURISHED from 1910-1960. Nothing I can find will say when the buildings were built. I found this bullet like thing. At first I thought it was that little metal pointy piece on a chain link fence crossbar. But I took it home and compared it to one I already had in my trash pile. Not even close. I found a website with civil war time period bullets and it was closer of a match. I found the only one ring bullets were made in error. I'm not sure if this could be one of them. If it is from the 1800's that would be sweet! Who knows the age. The ghost town has been in use for quite a while. One can dream. I had a blast st this little ghost town and was surprised to find this and some old tools (which I'll put up later) because the whole site in the 80's was a paintball and general shooting range for law enforcement.

Thanks for looking.

 

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[vpnavy]

I pulled this from another TN thread...

Civil War Bullet ID Chart (Sep 05, 2013)http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/civil-war/374406-civil-war-bullet-id-chart.html

 

[Hunter101]

I pulled this from another TN thread...

Civil War Bullet ID Chart (Sep 05, 2013)http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/civil-war/374406-civil-war-bullet-id-chart.html

Thanks for the chart. I actually tried looking under the 52 sharps ringtail and it led me to other one ring ringtails and they seem to fit very closely.


The second is confederate. I have an acquaintance who collect bullets so I'll check with that. At work one guy said it should be at least WWII and before. Thanks for the lead!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats

 

[Hunter101]

Hopefully it is what we think it is. That would be cool to find that old of s thing in little old Utah.

 

[against the wind]

Very interesting, , I have so many bullets I have dug over the years. None of them are 3 ringers, so I never bothered to try to I.D them. That may take locating a bullet expert first.
Congrats on your finds.

 

[A2coins]

I would love to hunt an old Ghost Town!!!I guess the grass is always greener somewhere else and the finds !!!Cool Thanks for sharing !!Hope you find lots more

 

[Wildcat1750]

Cool bullet find!

 

[sutphin]

AINT NEVER SEEN NO RING TAIL PHEASANT LIKE THAT , MUST BE RARE BREED. NICE FIND.