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Relic Discussion => Bullets => Topic started by: CarlS on September 06, 2020, 11:38:21 PM

Title: Carved Bullet
Post by: CarlS on September 06, 2020, 11:38:21 PM

A couple months back I bought a couple thousand bulk bullets.  There were both fired and drops in the groups.  As I went through them to sort by fired and dropped and type I would occasionally find a carved bullet.   Most were non-de-script and only deemed carved by virtue of knife marks on them.  But a couple were really cool at least to me.  This is my favorite one.  It appears to be a 58 cal made to resemble a pine cone.  You can't tell clearly due to the angle of my picture but it has a serrated bottom edge.  I don't actively collect carved bullets but when I see a neat one like this I keep it.

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Post by: speedenforcer on September 07, 2020, 12:05:03 AM

Very nice.

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Post by: Dave the plumber on September 07, 2020, 06:44:12 AM

definitely a keeper !!

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Post by: CarlS on September 07, 2020, 12:45:16 PM

Thanks y'all.  Here is another one that is kind of cool.  Looks to be a chess piece possibly.  Nice artsy piece.

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Post by: speedenforcer on September 07, 2020, 05:31:14 PM

Makes me want to collect carved bullets. :o

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Post by: relicrunner on September 08, 2020, 07:04:50 AM

yeah, me too. I found some neat ones out of a bullet collection I bought a few months ago.....then I bought some at the Chattanooga show (first time I ever paid for a craved bullet) and then I bought a few from Carl. Y'all look for the Carved Bullet page on FB....very interesting posts

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Post by: speedenforcer on September 09, 2020, 05:00:06 PM

If you decide to sell the chess piece looking one let me know ill buy it. I like that one

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Post by: Daveslem on September 12, 2020, 08:00:43 AM

Here’s one I bought on Facebook. The guy I bought it from found it at Cold Harbor when he got a call to remove a tree that had been knocked down during a storm. He made a deal With the home owner to remove the tree if he could metal detect the property. He found it in the root ball of the tree.

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Post by: speedenforcer on September 14, 2020, 03:53:38 PM

WOW, AWESOME.

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Post by: CarlS on September 17, 2020, 02:09:41 PM

Now that is a cool carved bullet!

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Post by: Mike in cranberry on October 02, 2020, 08:32:06 PM

Very nice!