Any input would be great!
They appear to be jacketed slugs, so I'm going to say modern. How they came to collide must be quite a story.
Is that a display of modern bullets? And when you mean "moder", that's up to year 2016? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the terminology.I agree with Patrick and John. Modern bullets. Here is a display at Gettysburg.
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Is that a display of modern bullets? And when you mean "moder", that's up to year 2016? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the terminology.
The display is of Minie bullets fired in the battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863.
I'd say "modern" for ammunition would be that which uses a smokeless propellant. In the United States you could ball park that as from about 1900 to the present. The same is true for shotgun slugs. Yours look to me more likely fairly recent; likely no older than the 1980s (just a rough guess).
Almost impossible to replicate without very strict testing conditions, they did the colliding bullet test on Myth Busters, it took many attempts to get the timing right. What they found was that in order for two bullets to collide, they would have to be fired at exactly the same time down to the millisecond, both weapons would have to have the same amount of powder and the two weapons would need to be held at exactly the same angle. The Myth busters used lasers to align the weapons but even then they struggled. Myth Busters tested the theory in the episode Firearms Folklore.I wonder if someone just tried to replicate a relic or something.
They look identical to the two fused bullets from the Myth Buster show.View attachment 113951 View attachment 113952 View attachment 113953 View attachment 113954 View attachment 113951 View attachment 113952 Hello, I bought what I thought was very interesting at a yard sale. The gentleman that sold them it to me said it was dug up in Georgia. I am not expert on bullets or anything but any idea on how to properly identify them? Here are a few pictures. They may or may not be civil war but who knows. I also took a caliper to them so you can see the diameters of the base of the bullets. One is slightly bigger than the other.
Any input would be great!
Almost impossible to replicate without very strict testing conditions, they did the colliding bullet test on Myth Busters, it took many attempts to get the timing right. What they found was that in order for two bullets to collide, they would have to be fired at exactly the same time down to the millisecond, both weapons would have to have the same amount of powder and the two weapons would need to be held at exactly the same angle. The Myth busters used lasers to align the weapons but even then they struggled. Myth Busters tested the theory in the episode Firearms Folklore.
I just don't see any way to replicate this unless as John says, it was at a firing range and one was a spent round and hit head on during training, There were quite a few WWII training bases in Georgia, that have been subsequently shuttered and these two look to have been in the ground for some time?