Weird Bullets - Any Experts

[TrashedTiger]

Went out with Matt this past tuesday and kayaked our asses off (5 miles each way). Explored south tranter's creek looking for the battle site at the location of an old mill. Not much left to look for and it will be very hard to find. Got in far enough where I thought it would be and got out near a clearing (thought it was natural but was cut recently for a gas line). Anyways we went into the woods and I got many bullet signals right in a row. Thought we had found the spot but these are the bullets I came out with. I don't know much about bullets but they are def. not the traditional large miniballs. These look like pistol rounds or other rifle rounds. Here is a small variety of the ones I got. One of them has the cone in the back (the one above the tiangle) and one I have never seen before in my life but has some characteristics of old bullets I looked at while trying to ID. I know the one on the right is a shotgun slug. The one on the far left has the nose smashed in. I would greatly appreciate any input as to the type of bullets and age. Thanks, Adam

 

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[Wetgreenie]

I'd say #3 is .38/.357 and #5 is a shotgun slug both modern.
The first one reminds me of a 9MM but the second Looks like a muzzle loader to me.

<---PS not an expert :P

 

[stryker-one]

Seems fairly accurate with that bullet evaluation. I see (L to R) #3 as what is called a semi-wadcutter--it should be all lead in composition and flat based. Usually wadcutter are used for target practise because (1.) they are cheap, and (2.) the "square" shoulders cut very clean holes in paper targets. I can not tell the size but looks like it would be .38 caliber. No 1 and 2 look like full metal jacket bullets (FMJ) and some of them (pistol FMJ) have concaved bases. Best guess without holding them. I say also slug on the big guy.

Hey, Lead and gold read fairly close on most detectors--so you find lead you can find gold if it is there.

Keep going.

Sherm

 

[cwdigger]

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