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Second trip to the place I recently found the Draped Bust LC. Working w the Etrac and SEF 6x8 this time it was alot easier to deal with the nails. Right away started hitting shotshell heads. 11 in all or so I thought. Most were 12 GA and a couple 20s. Briefly looked some of them up on Turtleheads Data base and most are from the early to mid 1900's. On cleaning up what I thought was a 410 head I noticed it had no center primer. Smashed pretty good I took a better look and after some measuring (the best I could for the condition) I think what I've got is an old 56-56 Spencer case. A very short rimfire rifle round. In the center where you normally find the primer appears what I think is a "V" and looking closer around the rim I found a pretty distinct squarish dent that I think was from the firing pin. After some looking Navy Arms did produce 56-56 Spencer Rounds and marked them with a "V" Cant seem to find a date window of production as of yet. Also found a junk ring and what looks like a metal piece that you'd put on the toe or heal of a shoe. Any Experts on old rimfire cartridges out there please chime in.
 
I'd like to apologize to our prominent member and shotshell expert " Turtlefoot" In my opening post I unintentionally referred to him as Turtlehead. Respectfully..... not what I meant at all.
 
It looks to me that the way that rimfire case is squooshed in such a way that you can probably get a fair reading of its length.

If it is about .875, you've found a Spencer 56-56.

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I agree. I did my best to mic the case length and crushed as bad as it is, it measures close to your dim. I also mic'd the rim baseand it falls every close to the Spencer round. Being there are not many old rimfire cartridges that fall within the measurements I came up with it should be a 56-56 Spencer. Also being retrieved at between 7" and 8" while most all of the shotshell heads were found at around 4" to 5" leads me to believe it" may" be older.
 
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