I have come across a lead bullet encased in a tapered piece of brass that looks like an ice cream cone. Anyone know what it is?

Sure sounds like one of the Burnside, or Burnside type, cartridges.

quote:

Originally posted by Tailgunner:
Sure sounds like one of the Burnside, or Burnside type, cartridges.

If it has a flash-hole in the small end, and has a bullet of about .52 caliber, I concur-a Burnside. A round for the Burnside carbine of the Civil war.

Contraption "invented" by Ambrose Burnside, the Yankee moron ("GENERAL") who presided over the slaughter of 12,000 Union soldiers at the battle of Fredericksburg, VA., slaughter provided courtesy of R.E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia......