Please help identify this bullet if anyone knows what weapon it may have been fired from. It measures .69 cal. in diameter (17.5mm) and is about 1 inch long (25-26mm). The bullet was found while metal detecting in a town site in South Mississippi, USA that dates around 1810-1880's. Thanks for any help you might provide. The base is flat.
There is visible flashing at the base, from whn it was cast.
thanks!! GeoDiggerMike
Picture of bullet (http://www.troycustomdetectors.com/pics/Austrian_bullet1.jpg)
It is not from the Norwegian kammerlader. The kammerlader bullet looks like this:
(http://www.forum.svartkrutt.net/images/uploaded/image596.jpg)
I have seen that bullet somewhere before, but I cannot remember exactly right now.
Thanks for the help. Please let me know if you find anything about this bullet.. By the way, I just got back from Tromso 2 weeks ago.
GO TIL!!!
GeoDiggerMike
It rather reminds me of bullets for the French carabine a tige or pillar breech rifle, numbers of which were bought by Marcellus Hartley in Europe for importation to the North during the American Civil War.