What is this strange projectile found in bullet trap.

[rockydoc]

I found this strange projectile in the 10 yard bullet trap on the pistol range. I found 2 of them. There may have been more.
The shaft measures .227" the "mushroom" head measures .282" It is very hard. The hardest pencil "F" slid right off. I couldn't scratch it with a knife, and a scratch is all I could produce on it with a triangular file. The flattened portion is where it hit the 30degree angled steel plate in the backstop.
There is no rust on it so it is stainless if it has any iron in it. It IS attracted to a magnet. It weighs 36.2 grains.
That is a Nosler Varmageddon .224 40gr bullet as a reference.

[dragon813gt]

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[CT-shooter777]

Savage .22 hi- power ?, 5.7x28fn armor piercing, steel core from a jacketed bullet? need pics..

[tryNto]

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[zuke]

Sound's like a solid copper bullet

[rockydoc]

Please note I have edited the OP and added photos.
Rockydoc

[rockydoc]

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Thank you for that. Please note that I have used that info and have added the photos.

[Dan Cash]

AP core from some .30 bullet, 7.62x39 perhaps.

[JSnover]

It looks like a rivet to me…
I've sectioned a few AP bullets (GI and ComBloc) and the cores I've seen didn't have that rounded head. They were just plain steel pins with a slight taper and/or a spitzer-type nose.

[khmer6]

Someone shooting random objects from a blunderbust

[CT-shooter777]

It looks like a rivet to me…


+1 on that

[62chevy]

It looks like a rivet to me…
I've sectioned a few AP bullets (GI and ComBloc) and the cores I've seen didn't have that rounded head. They were just plain steel pins with a slight taper and/or a spitzer-type nose.


+1 on that

+2 on rivets.

[GoodOlBoy]

I gotta go +3 on the rivet. I suspect somebody had something on the range that was riveted and was used as a "junk target".

GoodOlBoy

[bigjake]

+4 on a rivet! Like goodolboy said, someone shot up some metal thing and a couple rivets ended up in you hands. as far as it not rusting and is magnetic, it is probably a 400 series stainless steel, its magnetic.

[10 ga]

I'm also thinking it may be some sort of air gun projectile?

[rockydoc]

I agree it is shaped like an UNUSED rivet. There are no rifling marks, but it hit that angled steel plate hard enough to flatten one side. So I believe it is a projectile not a target. But shot out of what? Blunderbuss sounds plausible, but this is a private club range and I know of no one who has a blunderbuss.

Rocky

[GoodOlBoy]

It hit something with that kind of force, or something hit IT with that kind of force?

GoodOlBoy

[Hardcast416taylor]

I`d say that it was fired from a military piece of hardware on a range that isn`t meant for it. I`ve heard of ranges being shut down for the reason just mentioned.Robert

[ascast]

rivit is my guess---from target

[JSnover]

Who knows where it came from? That damage could have been inflicted anywhere and the unused rivet migrated to your range in the sole of someone's boot.
I've picked rivets, screws, safety wire, metal chips, etc out of my shoes. If any of your members work in a fabrication shop, I'd call the mystery solved.

[rockydoc]

Who knows where it came from? That damage could have been inflicted anywhere and the unused rivet migrated to your range in the sole of someone's boot.
I've picked rivets, screws, safety wire, metal chips, etc out of my shoes. If any of your members work in a fabrication shop, I'd call the mystery solved.

It was recovered from inside a bullet trap. Not a place where one could walk. It is still a mystery to me. Target backing was wood particle board. Still don't think it was part of a target.

[JSnover]

Call it a projectile if you want.
So far no one else has ever seen one like it but I've seen an awful lot of rivets and most of them looked exactly like that. You would not believe the strange things I've found inside machinery and other odd places.

[coyotewacker]

It might be from a air gun pellet. I had some pellets in .22 caliber in the 80's that were white plastic outer with center stainless steel.

[bhn22]

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Sure you can.