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Title: Found a Bullet
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 03, 2013, 01:46:36 PM
Yep...... in, of all places, a parking lot.

I'm one of those people who notices things...... I mean nit-picky little things that usually go un-noticed by most others.

So.....

While preparing to get in my truck, in a large public parking lot, (in a fairly good-sized city; around 80k in area population), I look down there lay a SWC lead bullet.

The diameter is .430" so that would be a .44 caliber.

As you can see from the photo, it is pretty chewed up surface-wise, but not in bad shape.
It wasn't there when I got out and went in...... I always look down to check for heaven-knows-what-may-be-there.


My theory on how it may have got there is that it was maybe part of a key-chain or such. I had a .45 ACP cartridge on a key-ring once and lost the HP bullet out of it......so I know that is a feasible possibility.
Maybe it fell out from the floor of a reloader's vehicle.
Heck, who knows.


(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd352/pegleg45/430.jpg)
Title: Re: Found a Bullet
Post by: GASPASSERDELUXE on December 03, 2013, 02:27:39 PM
It hasn't been fired, so if you reload that will save you about .08 cents. Find a few more and you are looking at some real cash.
Title: Re: Found a Bullet
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 03, 2013, 02:35:57 PM
It hasn't been fired, so if you reload that will save you about .08 cents. Find a few more and you are looking at some real cash.

I have a couple of boxes that are in better shape than this...... but I might save it for when times are hard......  ;D

Oh, wait!!! Um, yeah.........we are about there now...   :-\
Title: Re: Found a Bullet
Post by: TAB on December 03, 2013, 04:17:17 PM
if you cast thats gold there. 
Title: Re: Found a Bullet
Post by: Solus on December 03, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
Another cast bullet just like it, with a unique rare metal ingredient, was recovered from the body of a murder victim and the police are feverishly searching for a gun nut who might have others cast of that same unique alloy thus linking him to the crime.

But probably not.  ;D