GarySTL
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I was at my local range yesterday an found this spent bullet on the ground. It appears to be a 9mm to me, but the markings are what I found interesting.
The markings on the base look like an imprint of the nose of the same type of bullet. I imagine that there was a squib round, this one, with another round fired right after. The nose of the second round made the marks on the base of this one as it pushed it out the barrel. This one appears to have hit one of our steel plates, but only hard enough to do the little upset shown. The nose marks could also have come from someone driving this bullet backwards out of the barrel.
Any better guesses?
The markings on the base look like an imprint of the nose of the same type of bullet. I imagine that there was a squib round, this one, with another round fired right after. The nose of the second round made the marks on the base of this one as it pushed it out the barrel. This one appears to have hit one of our steel plates, but only hard enough to do the little upset shown. The nose marks could also have come from someone driving this bullet backwards out of the barrel.
Any better guesses?