✅ SOLVED Too small for a musket ball? Too big for shot?

[ToastedWheatie]

Dug lead round ball.
Measures .498 st the widest spot.
Weight is 11 grams.

Is this too small to be from a musket?
Maybe pistol?
Too large for buck shot?


Any thoughts?

 

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[ticndig]

I dug one today as well , I was going with pistol ball but could be wrong .

 

[l.cutler]

More likely from a rifle, muzzleloading rifles were much more common than pistols.

 

[Baribal]

Maybe grapeshot?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Possibly part of a Buck N Ball?

Dave

 

[creskol]

A Hawken's .50 musket ball measures .47 to .48 in diameter. which is fairly close and yours looks a bit distorted which may account for the fractional difference. The patina on that ball would also suggest that it is is earlier than the 1900's.

 

[Tony in SC]

You can still see the spure. Looks like it would work just fine in a 50 cal. rifle.

 

[ToastedWheatie]

Thanks guys!