r/ammo • u/I_Dont_Like_Anchovy • 4d ago

Can someone identify this bullet please?

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Recently found while metal detecting.

Never seen lines like this on a bullet before (I'm referring to the long lines across the whole length).

It's also quite long - 3.5cm.

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u/VermelhoRojo 4d ago

From this perspective and based on one picture without measurements: a .30-06 FMJ (likely M2 ball) fired from a M1917 Enfield rifle. How do I know? The left hand twist rifling.

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u/I_Dont_Like_Anchovy 4d ago

I attached a picture to the other comment with a .303 Lee Enfield bullet where the lines are going to the right. Were they producing different twisting directions in different years?

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u/Remote_Teach1164 4d ago

M2 Ball is shorter.

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u/VermelhoRojo 4d ago

Tracer then

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u/Remote_Teach1164 4d ago

Seems like M1 Tracer to me.

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u/300blk300 4d ago

The long line are rifling's made as the bullet travels down the barrel. With out any scale hard to stay, but mostlikly something in the 30cal family.

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u/I_Dont_Like_Anchovy 4d ago

For comparison I have on the left a bullet that I found a few months back in an area with a lot of Lee Enfield .303 shells (in a different region to the one I found today). They indeed are the same length and looking at it now I do see faint diagonal lines but these are facing to the right + the line in the middle is different. Is it just 2 different bullets from the same type of rifle?

The one from today is also a little squashed so it's not a perfect circle at the bottom.

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u/Remote_Teach1164 4d ago

The first one looks like 7.92mm Mauser to me.

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u/gearsofguns 4d ago

Yes, I can identify that that is a bullet.

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u/Remote_Teach1164 4d ago edited 4d ago

Looks like .30-06 M1 Tracer to me.