Thought I hit a nail but I was mistaken. After I went back to work I thought... I didn't hear anything, and the "head" was concave. Then I tried pulling it out but it didn't want to come... And it deformed from tweezers.

Ah... Lead ball.

How old do you think it is?

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turned a hunk of maple once that had so many bullets stuck in there I named the thing "sweating bullets".
It got to be fun diggin them, saving, and trying to figure out what they were. Most seemed to me 9mmP, a couple of 22's, and 1 was around a .270. Someone had to have hung a target, once upon a time.

I've had a few boards like that from local harvests. Out here on the plains, there were no trees until about 100 years ago, but Joisy, dey bin der forevah! People still shoot balls with black powder or it could be a "pumpkin" slug from a 12 ga. shotgun. If it is an unjacketed lead bullet, it is probably 40 years old or more.

You could just count the tree rings from the cambium layer in and guess when the tree was harvested. The sum will be when it hit the tree.

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I think the maple is Canadian actually... but I like to think it's from an old musket.


Everything I know about guns I learned here .

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Nuther one! Just the shell this time, the pencil fits inside.

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