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Thread: Weird looking bullet

  1. 02-07-2020, 09:23 PM #1
    JT78
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    Weird looking bullet

    I've never seen a bullet like this before wondering if someone can help identify it?
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  2. 02-08-2020, 01:35 AM #2
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    looks like a 38/30 which is 38 special necked down to 30 caliber.
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  3. 02-08-2020, 05:45 AM #3
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    No neck
    All shiny
    stencil on the side
    Looks like a novelty item or a toy
    Does it have a headstamp?
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  4. 02-08-2020, 05:48 AM #4
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    Is it made of lead or lead coated with something ?
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  5. 02-08-2020, 08:54 AM #5
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    That I'm not sure a friend of mine sent me the picture and wanted to know if it was real, she did send another pic and no head stamp but looks like it has a primer and looks as if it's crimped at the bullet she said it weighs like a bullet. I've just never seen one like it before wondered if y'all could help identify it.
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  6. 02-08-2020, 04:18 PM #6
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    My guess is, it screws apart and holds pills.

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  7. 02-08-2020, 08:50 PM #7
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    Definitely looks like a novelty or advertising item.
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  8. 02-14-2020, 02:40 PM #8
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    Look like something from a gas station. Unscrew the bullet.
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  9. 03-09-2020, 03:01 PM #9
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    May be one ounce of silver?
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  10. 03-09-2020, 03:20 PM #10
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    It'd help to have some measurements for case/shoulder length, and the different diameters.

    Maybe not as detailed as the case pictures in a loading book, but something more to go on than the one picture.
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  11. 03-09-2020, 04:46 PM #11
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    Looks like a cigarette lighter to me once you figure out how to pop the top open.
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  12. 03-12-2020, 06:45 AM #12
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    It certainly doesn't appear to be a real cartridge, at least based upon the one photo. Is that a gap I spy, between the "projectile" and the case mouth?
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