mystery bullet

19KSoldier

I found a bullet pretty much intact and i am unable to identify it, nor anyone on the team im with. help would be appreciated this is driving me crazy. my guess is possibly russian.



the left round is a 7.62 the middle one is unknown by me and the left is a .50 cal.

A right had twist is visible on the middle round waking me think that the round did not have a coating around it.

If you know what it is i will be greatly happy to hear it.

NN

Welcome aboard, it looks like the steel core from a .50 cal or 12.7 mm armor piercing rnd.

19KSoldier

damn that looks right on i appreciate that

ironduke

Yes. That's what it is. The copper jacket was torn off leaving just the steel penetrator. The rifling engraved on it is pushed in thru the copper jacket. I used to find these a lot back in my Armor Corps days. As a junior EM, I used to draw range clean-up detail a lot. Being a shooter I always looked for good samples of fired bullets. I have found these like your sample as well as complete bullets with jacket, and I even found some with the jacket in various states of being peeled back.