Two bullets that hit each other

[smokeythecat]

Found on a CW site, however they are post 1880. If you look carefully the one impacted the side of another one. This is the first time I have found something like this. Enjoy.

 

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[Gene Mean]

Wow, nice find! That's one in a billion.

 

[Al D]

Awesome find, thats a real keeper,

 

[smokeythecat]

Thanks. Best guess is it is from firing at a stationary target.

 

[Al D]

Thanks. Best guess is it is from firing at a stationary target.

Still a cool find

 

[Terry Soloman]

Simply Amazing!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[smokeythecat]

I knew it was post CW, probably 100 years old or less. At least 40 years old because that's when the current owners built the house. Anyway, I was cleaning everything up, and realized what it was. I also found some dropped minie balls, percussion caps, eagle buttons, lead scrap, kepi buckle (jeesh, those things are bringing $20 each now on Ebay), some nice horse or cartridge box iron buckles and on and on. Just getting stuff cleaned up. Haven't posted it. The big snow distracted me. I HATE the feeling of being home bound. Covid, go away now before I take you out behind the wood shed!

 

[Wildcat1750]

Probably not a mid-air collision but a rare event nevertheless.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice find Smokey. I once did that with a couple of arrows at 30 yards. They call it a "Robin Hood". I was practicing for a Bear hunt I was going to take up in Canada. The guide wanted to see me shoot a few arrows before the hunt, so I did. Shot 1, then shot the 2nd and drove it right into the shaft of the first one. He said "ok, that's good enough for me". It's a lucky thing I took 6 arrows on that hunt. After doing that, I only had 4 left. I still have them in my basement, along with a nice bear hide.

 

[PetesPockets55]

An intriguing find.

I can visualize someone target shooting, seeing only one hole in the tree/target and wondering how their sites got so far off that they
missed completely?

ps. I did try to convince a gun safety instructor one time that all five shots from the free standing position went in the single "dead center" hole on the target. They didn't buy it!

 

[smokeythecat]

Thanks all. Like I said previously, probably target practice but as many ranges as I used to get shot lead from (my dad was a CW reenactor in the 60's), no one ever found one impacted on another. And we found thousands...

 

[Megalodon]

When we had a MD club 30 or so years ago, one of the members brought in a piece of locust post from a CW site. Confed minie in the wood in one direction and a Union minie facing it about an inch away. Several members had found minie balls in old pieces of wood, but this was the only one like that. Wish I had taken a pic of it with my cell pho...oh wait a minute...

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Nice!! Looks like a pair of .38 wad cutters put on the same target like you said, I’ve seen a couple at my gun club just like it. Have you ever seen the two minnies that hit head on at the Gettysburg museum?

 

[smokeythecat]

Joe-Dirt, yes I've seen pics of them.