Pretty sure I found a Smith and Wesson Model 1 .22 bullet

[civil_war22]

Found it at the area of where the other civil war bullets were found this weekend. It’s definitely old, white, and has a little point coming out of the base. I’ve seen the guns before, but never knew what one looked like till I got my book out. To think I was about to throw it in the trash lead bin.

 

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[Gene Mean]

Let's see a pic

 

[bologna321]

Pinfire round?

 

[civil_war22]

Still eating, I’ll post when I get back

 

[smokeythecat]

Cool. I'd like to see it. I think I have found one also years ago. Beware the food coma.

 

[civil_war22]

Cool. I'd like to see it. I think I have found one also years ago. Beware the food coma.

Haha I must still be having food coma this morning because I’m trying to find where I put it. I should have taken a pic as soon as I found it, but didn’t clean it off till I got home, and by then it was time to take off for Christmas stuff. I’m bout to go nuts looking for it. I have my bullet book I’m trying to find the exact picture of it, then I’ll go, and keep digging around all my finds to see where I put it. It’s been such a nightmare lately with all the detecting that we’ve hardly had any time to make sure everything is put where we found everything. I know where the bullet was found was in the same area as confederate encampment that we found all the other round balls at, I put that one up for safe keeping so I wouldn’t lose it since it is so small, now it’s like finding a pellet lost in the grass.

 

[releventchair]

While we wait....
https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2016/10/the-sw-model-number-one-birth-of-22-rimfire/

 

[civil_war22]

While we wait....
https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2016/10/the-sw-model-number-one-birth-of-22-rimfire/

Yeah I’ve seen that page before. I’d personally like to own one myself as they’re pretty neat little guns. This one really stuck with me because out of all the .22 bullets I’ve found over the years in Civil War sites this one was the most odd. People don’t realize that the model 1 in .22 cal was purchased as a secondary weapon, like most LEO today carry secondary weapons. These little pocket pistols were perfect for that reason. I’ve seen them dug before, but they’re not often found. I read a journal entry from a soldier where he had purchased one not long before battle, and was wounded in battle, as the surgeon who was about to saw his leg off due to a bullet wound, he pulled his Model 1 out in the surgeons face, and told him “don’t you take my leg off”. The surgeon put down the saw, had another “physician” remove the bullet, clean, dress his wound, and let him lay down to get well. To their astonishment, the man never got gangrene, fever, or the normal symptoms of a patient near death, or post-op. Within a week his wound had healed enough to walk on his own, and the man never lost his leg. All goes to show that most of the surgeons back in the day weren’t skilled surgeons, nor trained very well. Some didn’t even hold any medical training like other surgeons or physicians of the time, who practiced medicine.