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sosa961

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Help with bullet ID?
« on: January 22, 2016, 07:04:33 PM »
Found what looks like a lead bullet in upstate South Carolina, but am not sure how to date it. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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tom buckley

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Re: Help with bullet ID?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2016, 11:13:05 AM »
Very interesting. It appears to have two grooves and was fired. Some measurements might help.
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sosa961

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Re: Help with bullet ID?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2016, 01:06:45 PM »

Thank you, Tom.  It is .56" wide at the bottom and 7/8" tall
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tom buckley

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Re: Help with bullet ID?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2016, 02:50:49 PM »
The bullet has been fired which distorts it. It appears to have been base-cast. There is the obvious groove near the base and there looks to be a horizontal line above the deep groove. I'm not sure if that line is from a groove or if this is from a cartridge case being crimped there. This is just a guess but it may be a fired Sharps and Hankins (125 in Jim and Dean's A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges.)
Hopefully some of our more learned forum members give their opinions.  :)
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dlw1610

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Re: Help with bullet ID?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2016, 07:05:33 AM »
Thought it was a Sharps & Hankins from the get go.  Good eye, Tom.
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