Other than #1 which I know is somewhat controversial because not everyone agreed with my brilliant insights when I first did this thread years ago, these bullets bore the crap out of me and I want to dispense with these 15 quickly. Still, I am posting this to commence a complete review of McKee and Mason. Perhaps my cavalier attitude will touch off a firestorm of debate about the 1000s of an inch difference between many of these, and I hope someone has great insights to share. Absent that, I am looking forward to comments on the other threads.
1: This appears to be one of the post-war match Whitworth bullets. The one in the book has no patina, nor a cavity. I believe Jim or Dean told me that the ones with the hex cast into them are post war. There are some lightly fired war-period ones recovered which picked up the twist from the bore, but all those have a base cavity. I say PU!
2. Looks possibly fired to me
3 Dean and Jim list this as a Picket type. Is an odd one as the only one on this page of M&M with > .55 diameter
4 Cosmopolitan?
5. See above
6. Fired
7 & 8. See #s 4&5
9 – 10: Carved
11: Jim & Dean list this as a CS slug for the Mississippi Rifle
12: Dean and Jim list it as fired
13-15 Fired or carved
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