Found a bullet I had shot today.

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I was at the range today, plinking away with my mosins, and not doing poorly, thanks to the new ATI stock that a member here so kindly gave me a great deal on.

I shot one, with my m44 and saw what looked to be a gigantic dust cloud at the end of the range, well larger than all the others that day. I thought, huh, must have hit a sand rock, or something. As we were cleaning up, I like to poke around and see if I can find any bullets I had shot. yah right, most of the time.

But I saw this very well preserved specimen, just worn with the tip torn off, still warm. didn't know if it was mine, there was another guy with an m44 shooting downrange, and may have deflected way over there but unlikely.

Well, when I got home I decided to check the round out, it was steel jacked and cored, just like the rounds I was shooting that day, and definitely .30 cal. I took it and twirled it around in the muzzle of my 91-30, no dice, wobbly and not fitting. Then I tried my m44, turn turn, plink. fit like a glove, with no wobbles.

I thought that was pretty cool, have any of you guys found bullets that you more than likely shot? I'm not 100% sure this was mine, but the grooves on the round were very sharp, matching my bore, and the glove did fit!
 
The home range I shoot at normally, has tires behind it...I do the same...I go "digging" after shooting, and find the rounds, or try to, that I have shot. Although I do attempt to keep at least 1 round from each firearm I own. Just for keep sakes!!! Congrats by the way on the "find"
 
My range doesn't allow digging in the berm, because it causes it to deteriorate. Apparently in 20 or so years they've never torn it down and rebuilt it, just occasionally throw more dirt on top (so I've been told). I'd like to see the mountain of lead inside that thing.
 
thanks calebjs, Its hard not to keep them all some times, like the rounds we found from the sks, that were flattened, all the lead had evacuated, and they were curved like bananas. They had been hitting the dirt and bouncing up into the berm vertically. now those were cool.



Yeah, I pulled one shot from a 300 win mag out of a deer.
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I'd call it a mobile berm. :p
 
I shoot on my family land at a dirt berm and used to have a swinging 6x12 cedar target. I've found lots of my bullets (30-06, 380, 38, 357, 7.62x25,45 acp but the hardest to find has been the 45 Colt 325 grain lead- they penetrate pretty deep). I keep most of them, especially the XTPs, Gold Dots, and Golden Sabers.
 
I've got a backyard range consisting af railroad ties and a big pile of dirt, I find lots of lead and bits of copper but have only found a few intact bullets. I put them on display along with an expanded HP round I fired into some water jugs. Always exciting to find one!
 
Ive had a .45ACP bounce back at me on the range on occassion. I kept a few. I have recovered bullets and fragments from game I have shot. Also, one time when warming up for a 3 gun match before leaving home, I decided to hit a piece of steel in my scrap pile about 75 yards away. It happened to be a piece of 10 inch cold roll about 2 feet long that had been cut off. Well, I double tapped it and then spent the next few minutes digging out a 1/2 inch long piece of the copper jacket that had burried itsself in my left thigh. A good lesson in why NOT to shoot at soft steel :rolleyes:
 
this is true bnkrazy, you can take as many phone books (3-4 usually) and place them in a 5 gal bucket, fill it with water, let it soak overnight is best, then blast away! Have had a "green tip" .223 go through it.
 
Yep I do the wet phone book thing to test my hp ammo. So I find my bullets on purpose. The only one I found still intact and not expanded was the gold dot.
 
One time I was shooting some Federal Spitfire .22s (hypervelocity stuff) at an empty pop can, and one strike sent the can wildly whirling through the air. When I went downrange to check it out I found bottom of the can creased, and the bullet stuck in the middle of the crevice. Apparently a combination of the angle the round struck at and the thicker ring of aluminum at the bottom of the can combined to catch the bullet.
 
Because the "range" that I use is open, BLM land, and used for sheep and wildlife grazing, I try to pick up ALL of my lead and brass, as well as what others have left behind. I even pick up fractured and .22 lead, as well. Due to the nature of the hillside shape and the soil type (largely compacted sand), I frequently retrieve largely undamaged bullets. They wind up in small "weight sacks" that I find useful for a variety of small jobs. I consider it time well spent, to dig up the lead, as some "Greenie" is sure to complain about all the wildlife being poisoned. A cleaned up range is hard to complain about! :)
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This is a .45ACP FMJ round that had passed through two car doors (the white marking on the nose is white paint from the auto body), and was stopped in sandbags on the other side of the vehicle.

The sides are flattened a bit (it has become more squared off than conical), and the nose is flattened a little, but it has maintained it's integrity and the jacket and core have stayed together.

Yeah I know I need to work on my macro photography...............
 
WW2 45acp

I once had a basket ball that I never used so I turned it into a target. I shot a box of WW2 45s FMJ at it and it just laid there and hardly moved I thought I was missing it so I shot at other things nearby when I checked the ball it was full of holes and inside was a perfect preserved 45. Not 1 dud in the hole box :uhoh: but WW2 ammo is showing its age.
 
Not a round I've shot... but I did have a round come through the roof at work one time. I wasn't there at the time, but found a flattened ball round of 9mm/.38 style on the floor and thought it odd, until I looked at the ceiling and saw the entry hole. Since it was downtown, I can only assume somebody fired warning/celebration shots in the air and it came back down through the roof at work.
 
I have found .45acp bullets, slightly deformed but intact in some grass behind a target. They would rip up a divot of grass, and burrow under the sod. This one had resurfaced, and come to rest a few feet behind the divot.
 
My cousin fired a "bird-bomb" .40 S&W round into a wooden fence post. It wedged right into a crack in the wood without penetrating (at 15 yards). Then it fizzled for a second or 2 and then exploded. It was about like an M-60 firecracker. It was good for a laugh. The back end of the round appeared to remain intact. We didn't dig it out.
 
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