I was digging a trench to bury a cable, and I found what looks like a spent rifle bullet. It seems to be in all right condition, despite however long it was in the ground.

It has two small, oval-shaped holes in the side of the surface of the bullet, one under the other, and I can see what looks like lead cylinders behind the holes.

I brushed it off with an old toothbrush, and I found these inscriptions on it:

"Reliable" in cursive writing, then under that:

"CAT No 81" ( the 81 may or may not be a partial number)

then "8 SOL"

then the numbers "050" which I assume measures the caliber of the bullet.

As you can tell, I know very little about guns and bullets. I'm wanting to know what gun this bullet most likely went into, and the meaning of CAT and SOL. I know if I can find a major in nuclear engineering in Earth's IRC, then I can find someone who's into weapons.

Thanks.


EDIT: I just noticed it has some sort of grooves in what I think is the front of the bullet, but these grooves aren't spiraled; they go straight down the bullet. Not sure if a gun barrel with spiraled rifling produces straight grooves on the bullets they fire or not.

Then again, it may be some sort of line sinker...dunno really.

It's not a bullet that I'm familiar with... at least, not from the description. Though I doubt there's anyone in the world that can identify all bullets.

Would you be able to post a picture?

-Fooglmog
Guy with no clue.

The grooves on the front of the bullet are there to hold the bullet itself to the casing.

(I'm assuming you only found the spend casing, and not the bullet)

Don't put the bullet in your head.

Best advice you will get from me!

A picture would be good

and there is no way you found the actual slug win all that writing

has to be the shell. No one puts that much writing on a projectile

killers put tgt's name on it. :P

I dunno; it's kinda heavy. I'm seriously thinking it's a line sinker. It's about 4 inches long, and I think it's too heavy to be a shell.


http://i25.photobucket.com/.../c70/NukEvil/whatisit.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/...c70/NukEvil/whatisit2.jpg

Lol

most def not a bullet

and marshal, you watch too many movies. Any writing on the actual bullet would completly mess up the aero characteristics by creating drag and if deep enough a low pressure pocket pulling it off course

looks like a line sinker probably nuke

Bah...who puts the word "Reliable", in cursive, on a line sinker? What's so reliable about a chunk of lead? "Oh, I'm guaranteed to make your line sink into a body of water." What?

Could be the brand? I'm not saying it is a sinker, but that's what it looks like

I am 100% sure it's not a bullet though

i messed up the other day. I had an old lawn mower my mom gave me to use this winter ( snowblower attachment) while mine was being fixed. She didn't want it anymore and it was taking up too much space in my garage so i listed it on craig's list. I got a text from someone asking if i was interested in trading a rifle for it. I waited 2 days and text him back asking for more info. He said it was a sks 7.62 x 39. two days later i asked for more about it as there are many different types. To those who don't know the sks is a pre ak-47 model, machine gun, favored by the reds. He text back saying that he just sold it and it was a yukslovian model with the grenade launcher attached. retailed for around 500, and i was asking 350.
might have been hard to find the grenade amo, but would have made a nice toy.

More like illegal to find the grenade ammo other than powder rounds

doubt you would have found grenade ammo's for that in us nor elsewhere, if you had tried to buy you could have ended in fed. prison.

U can have powder rounds

but for explosive rounds, silencers, and other stuff like that I need a advanced liscense usually needing approval from the sherrif himself.

the grenade launcher on an sks is just a tube that attaches in lieu of a bayonet lug where a grenade could be attached and launched by firing a regular round. Its a WWII design, not t he self propelled kind of grenade as seen on something modern like an M-4.

$500 is pretty high for an SKS

Nuke, there is no scale on those pictures, if the item is less then 2-3 inches then it is probably a sinker for fishing. If it is a lot longer, it may be an old window counter-weight.

nuke - I think you're correct. That's an old 50's or 60's lead line sinker, I think (pictures are kinda crappy, but it looks exactly like the ones I have). Most likely the little nub at the top at one point in time had a lead loop attached to it which has since broken off.

I inherited a tackle box from my grandfather after he passed several years ago, and there was about 2 dozen of those things in there. I seem to remember that the 2 indentations are something to do with air pockets and allowing the sinker to sink straight down. Scale wouldn't matter much, as they made them all the way from about 1/2 inch to 3 inches (1 gram - 56 grams, in my box)

i just got a norinco SKS last fall actually...

500 is definitely too high to pay

and all sks shoot 7.62 rounds, same as AK

its a different rifle, and not a 'pre-AK'

and that image is definitely not a bullet...

as for what you found:

http://www.lakemichiganangler.com/...os/lead_pencil_sinker.jpg

look like that kinda doesn't it?

thats a lead pencil sinker for fishing...

llaar wins the boobies prize

*flashes llaar and runs away*

its a multiverse sun capturin like device

BOOBIES! *chases nowie*

Got this from googles :

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