If it is 1/2" wide, it is a .50 cal. bullet with a steel core rather than copper-sheathed lead. The .50 cal. is not your usual hunting rifle, for sure. For one thing, the beast weighs too much to be carrying for any distance, and second - it makes a really big hole in whatever you are shooting at. Plus the gun would cost you probably $5000 minimum and even the cheapest bullets cost over $5.00 each, so you can't do much target shooting.
Probably a .50 BMG military round ?? Interesting to se a fired one, I've had surplus live rounds
Cost of 50 cal rifle = 5,000...wow. The guy who used to live there once sold us his .22 so he could get some booze. Hope he didn't have a 50 cal stashed away. He probably got the shell as a souvenir of some type.
Thanks for the ID on this, all who ID'd it, thanks for the help.
When it was fired it seems like it would have been smashed to smithereens, but it is only a little bent. Must have fired into something soft.
50 cals do not smash easily. They are steel core for armor piercing. MOST are like his since it is attracted to a magnet. I would guess like all the ones that I have found that it was fired from an airplane. However that is speculative.
I have never found a damaged one yet and I am sure I have over 50 of the critters.
It for sure is a 50 cal
Found this in a modern yard. It looks to be copper clad with some kind of iron inside because it is attracted to a magnet. It is 2.25 long and one half inch thick. Thanks for any help.
I have a 50 caliber . Great hunting rifle. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $5,000.
I have a 50 caliber . Great hunting rifle. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $5,000.
Yea, that's a 50 cal black powder rifle. Big difference between the black powder and a BMG.
I know. Sarcasm.