Intact bullet found in lumber after cut. What is it?

[Spear Dane]

So, this Brit is rebuilding a 1910 sailing yacht. He is Washington state I think so his frame lumber is sourced from the area. Appears to have been copper jacketed and quite large.

https://youtu.be/2YEriweBD0s?t=752

 

[Punkinhead]

I've found quite a few lead bullets in lumber over the years but they've always been misshapen from the impact. In fact, just a couple weeks ago I was planing some ash and found one so I left it embedded since it will be in the underside of a table top. I've never seen a bullet that kept it's shape like that.

 

[femurphy77]

It's located right next to a knot in the wood, I wonder if junior was playing with daddy's reloads one day and shoved the bullet into a knot hole and the tree grew in around it? That's oak so there should have been some deformation upon impact. Be curious to know how old the tree was and you can't get any indication of it's previous size from the raw lumber being cut.

 

[AtTheMurph]

Or maybe Daddy put it in there for just such a discovery decades later?

I've done similar.

 

[Leadeye]

Looks like a heavy bullet from something in the 340-375 range. Pretty stout copper jacket, might have hit the tree many years ago, then the tree continued to grow around it.

 

[1911ly]

I have been watching Leo's video since the beginning. He is truly a craftsman. I thought it looked like a 30 cal. Jacketed for sure. That load of wood came from Georgia If I remember correctly.

 

[Punkinhead]

The real stroke of luck is that he just happened to saw through the bullet end to end and ended up with a nice cross section. The odds of that are really low. I might have tried to stabilize it in place with some epoxy and leave it showing as a design feature.

 

[chocktaw2]

30-06?

 

[Spear Dane]

I have been watching Leo's video since the beginning. He is truly a craftsman. I thought it looked like a 30 cal. Jacketed for sure. That load of wood came from Georgia If I remember correctly.

Yeah it's an amazing project. I just wonder how much of that boat is going to be original wood when he is done.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

.338 WM 250 grain.

(Guess)

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Looks like a heavy bullet from something in the 340-375 range. Pretty stout copper jacket, might have hit the tree many years ago, then the tree continued to grow around it.

Speer Grand Slam projectile?

 

[4651feeder]

Yeah it's an amazing project. I just wonder how much of that boat is going to be original wood when he is done.

None of the timber that I know of.
I never heard how he recently cut his finger and who's generous enough to allow the Tally Ho rebuilding mess in their backyard?
Those are the two things I wonder about.

 

[1911ly]

Yeah it's an amazing project. I just wonder how much of that boat is going to be original wood when he is done.

In one of his videos he mentioned he figured maybe 10 to 15 percent. Due to his work and previous repairs. I can't wait to see it hit the water.

My first thoughts were WFT, how is he ever going to make this thing float. It did not take long for me to figure out how brilliant of a shipwright he truly is. A real craftsman.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I've found quite a few lead bullets in lumber over the years but they've always been misshapen from the impact. In fact, just a couple weeks ago I was planing some ash and found one so I left it embedded since it will be in the underside of a table top. I've never seen a bullet that kept it's shape like that.

You be surprised at how often jacketed bullets keep their shape, especially through flesh.