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Relic Discussion => Bullets => Topic started by: Jim T on November 23, 2022, 10:43:59 PM

Title: Unknown bullet
Post by: Jim T on November 23, 2022, 10:43:59 PM

For you Iron-heads, it sure looks like a Hotchkiss, but it's lead and .52 caliber!

This is a three-piece bullet; a hollow nose section containing at least a percussion cap (perhaps more), a middle band, and a base cup with rusty remnants of a central iron pin.

0.525" x 1.11" overall. From the same collection mentioned in other posts...will have it at Franklin.

Title: Re: Unknown bullet
Post by: Tex27 on November 24, 2022, 10:20:50 AM

Now that's some amazing lead!
Any idea of the time period? Looks like it's designed to be incendiary?