11.77 mm is the dimension quoted for the long army so allowing for barrel compression it would seem this is the one. Amazing to find it outside your house!
Yepp, I am pretty sure about it now as I asked on a Norwegian black powder forum. It is very likely a 1860-1867 bullet as just about all of the kammerlader rifles where converted to cartridges in 67.
They where also quite impressed about the fact that I found this as they are rare.
I do know that there was a hexagonal rifle on a farm about 300m from here when my grandfather lived there but I don`t think the lead would oxidize to this extend in that amount of time. It has sand imbedded in the oxide and that really brings the age to its right.
The coin I found from 1908 is also marketed online as a "difficult year" so I do have luck with me!
7.92mm, 0.303", 30-06?
I am not completely sure that any of those actually are WW2 but at my grandmas house I found several rifle cases dated to the 40`s did not check the caliber as I gave them to her for her to display.
Today I went to what once was one of the only bridges over a decent sized nearby river in a deep valley and searched the 800m of trail to the collapsed bridge I am pretty confident the germans must have used, and one of the first good signals was a old 9mm FMJ pistol bullet, completely intact and with rifling grooves.
It seemed to have been fired from pretty far away as it was not deep and there is no signs that it hit something before entering the ground, I went on with the search and eventually I found the source. IIRC about 8 or so 9mm shell casings was lying around in a area of 20m on the trail.
They where marked 9mm 44 and then two letters and an arrow of some kind.
I also found rifle cases in that area but I haven`t looked to closely at them yet, they ended up in my junk bag as I have enough of them.
Think I will search the area one more time later and hope to find a completely intact 9mm casing for the bullet as the best one I have now has a small nick in it.
Hope that answers some questions
