Projectile?

[hudsonlarking]

Found along the river of course. Know very little about bullets but I’ve seen/held a few here And there. My first thought was bullet but who knows. Thanks for your help.

 

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[40 Rounds]

It certainly looks to be a bullet...unfired based on the condition but hard to tell. getting some measurements on it would likely narrow down the caliber.

 

[hudsonlarking]

Not sure what measurements but the length is 3.5 cm by like 0.5 cm

 

[TerryC]

Scrape an area to make sure it's metal. Use a magnet to see if any (core?) is iron. If solid, do specific gravity to see what metal and how heavy.... most likely lead with copper "skin". Using a digital calipers (I'm sure you have one, snicker) measure length and width in metric (cm/mm). May be 7.62 mm in width if most common rifles or even 6.5. The different base suggests it may have been a tracer... they hollow the base and fill with substance, usually magnesium, to get the base to give off bright light. Match your findings to available bullet identification tables. If not metal, start over with another approach (tsk,tsk). ╦╦C

 

[NOLA_Ken]

It looks to be a .30 cal with part of the decayed cartridge still on it. Most likely 30-06, or 308, but you'd need a measurement in 100ths of an inch and a weight in grains (without the left over cartridge neck) to positively ID it. Datewise, 20th century somewhere....