Description: Recovered "dug" 75 caliber bullet (from Brown Bess?)Struck by a modern jacketed bullet... new meets old?The Brown Bess bullet goes as far back as the Revolutionary war and this one has a modern jacketed bullet embedded in it. There may not be another one like this one on earth! I have been collecting, recovering or digging bullets for years. My first experience was digging into a hillside behind a gun range at a boy scout camp in the 1960's. I have been hooked on recovered and recovering bullets ever since. I have over 1000 bullets in my collection... this one is my prize! The dating of bullets is always tough... generally you date them by what they are because you find them in a hill, creekbed or chasing a hole in a cracked piece of wood. It takes a developed knack to spot them. A log with multiple holes will help you to find "shot" bullets. Someone shoots them into a tree and then hits them again. Bullets "shot" by other bullets. Those are a particular favorite of mine. They are unique, accidental and illustrate the randomness of life. . . Then you found them after who knows how long? This is my favorite bullet of all that I have collected, bought or traded... It is from a 75 caliber smooth bore musket. It weighs over 700 grains! But here is the neat part... it has also been dead centered by a modern jacketed round. (the identity of the modern round is impossible.)This one is so totally unique, in all these years I have never seen another like it. An old smoothbore round from what is clearly an antique rifle struck by a modern rifle bullet then dug from the side of a hill. If you took this to an expert he would date the original round based on it's identity with a Brown Bess. That is the most likely gun to have fired it. There was at least one documented Brown Bess at the battle of Shiloh. I have not cleaned the dirt or patina off it from its time in the side of the hill. At the start of the Civil war both sides were pretty much shooting anything that would shoot at each other. The smooth bores were quickly discarded as a sufficient quantity of rifled guns became available. If you collect "dug" bullets... you have to have this. I did! Note these are artifacts... They are completely unable to be re-used in any manner whatsoever. They are only fit to be placed on a shelf as a trinket or added into a collection, just like any other artifact from a bygone age. They are "dug" from various places... Once a bullet has been fired, it can never be re-used, it is bent squished, disfigured etc. It cannot become a component in any future bullet or ammunition configuration.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico
End Time: 2025-01-15T16:27:32.000Z
Shipping Cost: 7.5 USD
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