I found this about a week ago in a local park. It appears to be lead and has some weight to it. I looked at it and thought it looked like Civil War era grapeshot? Any thoughts?
I found this about a week ago in a local park. It appears to be lead and has some weight to it. I looked at it and thought it looked like Civil War era grapeshot? Any thoughts?
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Grapeshot is iron I think. Lead could be roundball or bullet? Would like to see some pictures…
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Sorry, here is the pic
Jbolf6 , is there any way to measure the size (have any calipers) , most grapeshot is iron and pretty large too (maybe an inch to an inch and a half in size) but i've see some canister shot that was lead ball.
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Del. I will try and borrow some calipers tomorrow and measure it
I was reading about "Peters" ammunition, come to find out that Peters made ordinance even during the civil war, I never realized they had been around that long till I started researching a 32ACP Peters round that I found
I had no idea Peters was making ammo that many ears ago. Amazing!
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