Bullet-like but awfully big
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Junkminer
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Large rifle bullet, maybe a 30.06?
Coin Operated
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Probable 50 cal. Possibly from a fighter aircraft or ground machine weapon.
Captain Silver
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A 50 cal. round...
If it is 1/2" wide, it is a .50 cal. bullet with a steel core rather than copper-sheathed lead. The .50 cal. is not your usual hunting rifle, for sure. For one thing, the beast weighs too much to be carrying for any distance, and second - it makes a really big hole in whatever you are shooting at. Plus the gun would cost you probably $5000 minimum and even the cheapest bullets cost over $5.00 each, so you can't do much target shooting.
Cost of 50 cal rifle = 5,000...wow. The guy who used to live there once sold us his .22 so he could get some booze. Hope he didn't have a 50 cal stashed away. He probably got the shell as a souvenir of some type.
Thanks for the ID on this, all who ID'd it, thanks for the help.
When it was fired it seems like it would have been smashed to smithereens, but it is only a little bent. Must have fired into something soft.
BottleCapKing
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5k for a .50 is the lower end of things. Barrett makes a .50Cal that goes for 13-17k. Weighs about 34 pounds, and it costs about $12 a round to fire. It makes Danny Vermin's .88 Magnum in "Johnny Dangerously" look like the Red Ryder BB gun from "A Christmas Story".
worm12ga
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I hate how deceiving photos can be. When I mentally turn the bullet 90 degrees, it looks much more like .30 caliber than .50, but the length is dead on for a .50. I think some of the rust you are seeing is from a bi-metal jacket (copper over steel) but could very well be steel core as well.
50 cals do not smash easily. They are steel core for armor piercing. MOST are like his since it is attracted to a magnet. I would guess like all the ones that I have found that it was fired from an airplane. However that is speculative.
I have never found a damaged one yet and I am sure I have over 50 of the critters.
It for sure is a 50 cal
Wow, thank you for this information.
Dogfisch
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Do you live near an airport? Or was there an air-force base near you at one point? Looks like a 50cal ball ammo most likely target practice from an aircraft. Its got to be from WWII. During the war live ammo exercises were conducted all over the US. I know of a spot in New England and I have found literally hundreds of them.
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hawgdawg
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I have a 50 caliber . Great hunting rifle. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $5,000.
Yea, that's a 50 cal black powder rifle. Big difference between the black powder and a BMG.
I have a 50 caliber . Great hunting rifle. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $5,000.
For sure a black powder. For a 50 cal BMG you are looking at over 5.00 EACH bullet. I have three live ones from before WW2 I found in a lake. Not going to stuff one of these in your rifle!!
50 Cal, 30-06, 45 Cal, 357, 22 Cal
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I know. Sarcasm.
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