Strange bullet I dug

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

I was hunting a Mississippi Calvary camp and I was digging the usual stuff, some eagle buttons some sharps just the basic stuff. Then I pulled this strange bullet, it's a 36 cal. My friend thinks it's a dimmick but I'm not sure. What do y'all think? I dug it in an area where dimmicks are never found. I also found a weird cut hammered silver coin

 

[Mark A]

The bullet, damaged as it is, looks like it's possibly for a Walch Navy revolver. Here are the left & right blocks from a 36 caliber Walch Navy revolver mold.

 

[Joe Whitworth]

The bullet, damaged as it is, looks like it's possibly for a Walch Navy revolver. Here are the left & right blocks from a 36 caliber Walch Navy revolver mold.
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Spot on, that's a rare one.

 

[Seduzal]

Awesome never seen that kind of bullet before! Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed it.

 

[VaFredneck]

For comparison, this is a 36cal Walch I dug out of a Cav camp.

 

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

For comparison, this is a 36cal Walch I dug out of a Cav camp.

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Now that I look at it they are different. Walch bullets seem more fatter than mine. Mine is a little deformed though so who knows

 

[ole miss rebel]

"I was hunting a Mississippi Calvary camp", Confederate or Union camp? Around Abbeville perhaps, many camps there.
Great find!

 

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

"I was hunting a Mississippi Calvary camp", Confederate or Union camp? Around Abbeville perhaps, many camps there.
Great find!

I've wanted to try over there, there are some forts that way with a lot of earthworks but they have sadly been hunted out. I hunted a spot one time with very little success. This camp I was hunting was north of the talahatchie near a period church where the soldiers stopped