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  • BeatTheTunaUp

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    My sister lives less than 50 yards from where Fort Griffin was in the mid to late 1800's. I go there to shoot sometimes, and while picking up my brass, I find this old muzzle loader bullet near a spoils of a pit he's digging. No one we know, or the previous owners I grew up with shot black powder. Does this look like a modern black powder bullet, or an old 1800's one that got dropped 150 years ago?

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    Wiliamr

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    Diameter and weight? Looks like an old Government Model 1873 bulllet. Lee hollow base bullet molds make a near exact copy. I have a couple of those molds
     
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    I shoot a hollow base 45/70 bullet out of a Lee mold that looks very much like that. I can see what might be rifling marks, but the nose is deformed and there appears to be a tear on the side, so I certainly could have been fired.

    I don't think it is an old bullet, but I've certainly been wrong before, and likely will be wrong a few more times.

    Alan
     
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