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Walking across the paddock yesterday and look down on a patch of bare dirt and this is lying there.
https://i.postimg.cc/3rvshZX4/projectile.jpg
Looks to me to be 257 in cal.
No one here has ever used a 257 on this property, and given the lack of expansion Im guessing a shot was fired along way away and its come down here?
What a cracker - have you weighed it?
Maybe from a 250 Savage?
Looks like a dirty old corelokt
Im not sure what it is, its flat based, but looks like it had a plastic tip or maybe a hollow point.
Definitely has the look as though it has just fallen out of the sky totally expended at the end of its trajectory. I have found .308 projectiles in that state under a gong a thousand metres down range but nice and shiny rather than tarnished with age like that.
I think it underlies the importance of having a backstop. Whoever fired it probably never thought it would land where people could be walking.
That sure is an interesting find. Looks like it has been there for a long time.
I have found a .22 embedded in a cedar weatherboard the angle I the bullet suggested it had been fired at a high angle ie at a possum up a tree. Nearest house was a k
Brings back a memory.25 years ago I was milling the head log of a Rimu Id cut down and flown out of the bush. Big tree, some 35cube of log, and the mill cut through a lead ball embedded in the wood.
What a cool find!
We were in the Porirua hunting Tahr years back and my brother in law picked up a mushroomed projectile on a clay pan, it had been shot by the previous party as there were a few carcasses about. The bullet must have passed through and land there.......what are the chances of finding a spent bullet in that big country, not that good but can happen.
I found a perfectly intact .303 fmj projectile sitting on the backstop weeks after shooting paper, funny thing was it had lots of little round dents in it as I had been shooting bird shot that day too. Weighed it 180gr so it had gained weight! Made it into a nifty keyring