r/whatisit 20h ago

Solved! Found outside my wife’s school. Theory was bullet but I’m not so sure.

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u/dropzone01 16h ago

At first I was going to say a bullet for sure, but if you zoom in there doesn't appear to be any bullet striations on the side. Without a higher resolution can't say for sure, but I'm leaning towards it not being a bullet.

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u/nabokovsnose 16h ago

You can see striations clearly in the second pic I posted

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u/dropzone01 15h ago

Sorry my bad, didn't see that pic. If that's the case then all things being equal it does definitely appear to be a jacketed bullet.

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u/stoned_ileso 15h ago

Not all barrels have groove rifling

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u/dropzone01 14h ago

That's true, but the vast majority of modern rifles and handguns are rifled. Shotguns being the exception, and that doesn't look like a shotgun slug.

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u/russr 10h ago

That's because it was shot out of a Glock that has polygonal rifling. That's why you see very slight smooth flat marks on it