Slug in a blanket.

Ummm -- the *solid* kind of slug, not the squishy kind.

Looks like a Crayola metallic bronze crayon in a 12-gauge shotgun shell. LOL

Looks like a Crayola metallic bronze crayon in a 12-gauge shotgun shell.

aka "slug in a blanket" -- that's how you take out Bambi with a firearm here in NJ (unless you're a black powder fan) because those sporty cervine sniper-scoped smoke-poles just carry too far to suit the local brie-on-a-biscuit munchers.

Looks like it's 1920 vintage or earlier...

Bronze cone nosed bullet, with a sabot to fit into a 12 gauge shotgun shell. AP, probably police or FBI.

Sabot for Shotgun. Sometimes called "Lockpicks" think they were replaced with a Shredder type shotgun round in the 90's

A shotgun shell thats glad to see someone.

Al, yer a bad man. I'm surprised you didn't say: "A gentile shotgun shell thats glad to see someone.

Kinda looks like the paradox the brits used in their doubles in Africa. One barrel was normal and held birdshot for food, the other was rifled just in front of the muzzle and fired something much like this. It gave them a last chance if they got charged by something big.

Transylvanian slug load. Fires a jacketed wooden stake. This is the cheap model, with copper-jacketed wood; the better ones use a silver jacket.

I looks like wood. I vote a novelty pen or something like that.

Hard-rock tent peg.
Power piton.
Load for the M1887 "Tepes" antipersonnel mine.
Intermediate firing pin for an Austro-Hungarian 224mm gun, creatively solving the problem of hard primers.

I vote for Al's guess, with John's "extra" added on!

LMAO

Dunno, but I'm wondering if that could be one of the early experiments with caseless ammo -- that mottled brown reminds me of dynamite-in-the-raw...

Breech round

Whatever it is is relatively small. The background is carpet from the looks of it. Probably shotgun shell-size.

P.S. Here's an interesting webpage for big-bullet admirers:

http://cartridgecollectors.org/introtoartyammo/introtoarty.htm

Oh, and that looks like worn paper along the top edge of the outter casing, right of center, so I'd guess it's an older shotgun round of some kind.

I can't help but wonder though, what the max effective range of that could be. The bullet must extend at least a 4th of the way into the outter case, and if that's a solid copper jacketed slug, it must be a bit weighty. 20 meters?

So

No. The headstamp gives it away. It is an 8-gauge indistrial shell designed for breaking kiln slag in foundries. Remington still make them with a zinc wadcutter and makes the gun that fires them too.