who knows what this is or what happened to it??

[skinny killer]

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I found this half buried in the dirt when I was walking in my back woods a while back.

It's a bullet obviously but I was just wondering, why is the cartridge all mangled and pushed up around the bullet like that??? What sort of malfunction would cause this??

Also does anyone know what kind of cartridge this is??

The bullet itself appears to be steel. It had a bit of rust on it before I cleaned it up and it will stick to a magnet.


I just thought I'd puzzle you guys with this.