Civil War! *fist pump*

I went to a store in where a Guy had a full barrel of those. He was selling em off at 50 cents a piece <.=.>

Yes these are quite common but very collectible...They have little or NO monetary value, but are quite interesting and we like to find these old casinga...

I'm aware. I was just surprised he had found so many. He was also selling off glass bottles and other little war bobs and ends as "relics" XD things that any relics dealer would laugh at you if you asked for a hefty price on.

One Metal Detector I know has over 5,000 antique cartridges he found..

I wonder which side it belonged to :O

It was after the Civil War...this was a civilian-owned gun. Probably doing some target shooting...

WRA -- Winchester Repeating Arms, now owned by Olin Industries, made cartridges in literally hundreds of calibers. Hard to tell if it was a S&W .38 Long or Short (Smith and Wesson made revolvers that chambered only shorts or both) but it's a neat find. I have a few singles of undetermined age old and a few boxes going back to the 1920s, but nothing as old as this. I don't think anyone but Ruger has made a gun to chamber it since the 1940s. Cool find!

One of them was a LONG Cartridge...

There were some real oddball cartridges at teh end of the 19th Century, weird competitions between rifle and ammunition companies. The .38 Ballard Extra Long comes to mind; the empty case alone was an inch and a half long. It only survived a couple of years in the mid-1880s. There are other, similar rounds that were even longer. There are whole books dedicated to old rounds. I love Frank C. Barnes' Cartridges of the World; it's a quick read at only 552 pages...

I found most of the iron from an old wagon there plus a horseshoe, TWO Ax heads, a copper silver plated spoon, and a fish hook about a 1/0 done about 6"

I found a .22 Long Rifle cartridge in the yard of a 200 year old house...It had the letters "US", stamped on the bottom...