r/whatisit • u/Lopsided_Ad_4156 • 9h ago

Solved! Found this in my shower

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Found this tiny metal thing in my shower weeks ago. Been keeping it, just in case i found out where it belongs to. Still didn't figure it out.

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u/wavethatflag44 9h ago edited 9h ago

Wadcutter Pellet for an air rifle

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u/Lopsided_Ad_4156 9h ago

Solved!

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u/verivicious 8h ago

Now why was it in your shower?

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u/Lopsided_Ad_4156 8h ago

Still no clue! I don’t have kids ór an air rifle. My bathroom window is facing the street and I open it regularly for fresh air. But as most of you suggested it doesn't make sense since it is "unused"?

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u/Abolish_ICEIS 8h ago

Do you have a communal laundry room?

If so that'd probably be it. Someone did a little plinkin and missed a pellet in their jeans pocket that came out in the laundry, you cleaned your bathroom towels and it got caught in a fold then when you hung up the towels it fell out in the shower.

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u/garbage-girl-xoxo 7h ago

I don't know, I think the truth is a lot more complicated than that.

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u/meepmeepmeep9999 7h ago

…What?

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 7h ago

I also want to hear their theory now. I bet it involves quantum mechanics and time travel

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u/notsoFunNegotiation 7h ago

If it had been shot, it would not be in perfect shape. That was dropped by somebody.

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u/Pnut1022 2h ago

Actually depends on what you shoot

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u/jnievele 1h ago

If you shoot aerogel at a long distance maybe. But even then there would be evidence of the rifling engaging with the rim, which is not visible here

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u/Good_Contact_6163 8h ago

Double check your window screen for a hole.

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u/zamufunbetsu 29m ago

"unused"? many air rifles will leave a pellet seemingly unused if the deceleration was not severe (as in hitting a shower curtain after entering an open window)

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u/andreystavitsky 8h ago edited 8h ago

it's used. Flat head means it was collided with a flat surface.

UPD I was wrong. There are many types of diablo pellets, and some of them has a flat head. I only used coned 

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u/Think-Economics-400 8h ago

There many different types of pellets this is a flat head style

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u/Spare_Chemical122 8h ago

No, the flat head is by design to make it cut clean through paper targets. This pellet is definitely unused.

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u/Rumplestilskin9 8h ago

No. Some pellets are just shaped this way.

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u/Think-Economics-400 8h ago

They are made flat head btw

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u/Kangermu 3h ago

Seen the update, and probably just autocorrect, but they're "diabolo" rounds

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u/Agitated_Village4281 8h ago

They come like that.

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u/CleanOpossum47 8h ago

Kid taking pot shots at hanging laundry?

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