Found a surprise in my whitetail

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I went out Sunday for a meat whitetail , looking for a dry doe or a buck . My brother came along since my back has been wrecked all deer season limiting my walking or dragging . We found a doe in a field near the farm that appeared to be feeding and I walked down a fence row to get close enough and shot her. I was butchering her today and found this in her neck.

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Its a 22 caliber bullet that was lodged in her neck about 3 inches from the spine . It looks like someone tried a neck shot and pooched the shot, one of the reasons I prefer the "boiler room " shots. It must have earlier in the morning she was hit since there was fresh looking clots around the wound. I'm glad I got her so she didn't suffer a lousy death. Sorry for the poor photo as it was taken with my phone that doesn't have macro.
 
Why do you assume she wouldn't survive?

I was eating supper one night and heard and felt my knife hit something, turns out to be a bullet in the shoulder roast. No idea it was there and found it at the dinner table.
 
I shot a buck with a cross bow one year. It was a town buck. A friend was having a hard time so I gave him the meat. He got a .177 pellet in a roast. My guess is it was eating grandma’s flowers and she capped his ass with a pellet gun. Ha ha.
 
I remember my Dad fetching home a deer when I was a lad and we were skinning it out in the shed when we found a lump under the skin between two ribs. When Dad cut it open there was a nicely mushroomed bullet inside. Examination of the opposite side of the rib cage showed evidence of an entrance wound and a piece missing from a rib. So that deer had been shot in a previous year through the chest cavity and survived. Hard to believe an animal could survive that.
 
Her neck muscles were shot up pretty bad and I don't think she could lift her neck which is why I think she looked like she was feeding , there was enough damage inside that I can't see a recovery though anything is possible I guess.
 
I shot a 3 or 4 year old Moose, recovered my bullet from the lung shot under the offside hide.
While butchering, I found another slug in that heavy yellowish backstrap. It was obviously a
"hail Mary" shot, since it was not expanded, and had not penetrated very much at all.
30 cal, RN 165 grain slug.

Another one found was a 22 Long Rifle bullet that had stopped against a rib of a big cow
moose. It had broken the rib, but failed to get through to lungs. That bullet is displayed
in my collection of conventional C&C bullets above. Dave.
 
I shot a bear one time with my bow and we found three different caliber bullets under it's hide when we skinned it... apparently that bear had "four" lives, unless the other five were pass-throughs or we missed a couple. The wounds were all fully healed and clearly made in previous years.
 
hunter5425 said:
I went out Sunday for a meat whitetail , looking for a dry doe or a buck . My brother came along since my back has been wrecked all deer season limiting my walking or dragging . We found a doe in a field near the farm that appeared to be feeding and I walked down a fence row to get close enough and shot her. I was butchering her today and found this in her neck.

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Its a 22 caliber bullet that was lodged in her neck about 3 inches from the spine . It looks like someone tried a neck shot and pooched the shot, one of the reasons I prefer the "boiler room " shots. It must have earlier in the morning she was hit since there was fresh looking clots around the wound. I'm glad I got her so she didn't suffer a lousy death. Sorry for the poor photo as it was taken with my phone that doesn't have macro.
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This is a likely result of our new SK caliber restrictions for big game hunting. Opens up the legal opportunity to hunt big game (including moose, elk, etc.) with cartridges far to small to get the job done properly, regardless of shot placement.
 
Both deer my friend shot during our college years in the early eighties had buckshot under their hides in a shotgun only hunting zone.The wounds had healed but I imagine that many deer don't survive after being shot and wounded to not be found.
 
The 4x5 mulie I got this fall had no meat on his right scapula ,just a fibrous white callous where the larger of the two pieces of meat should be peppered with copper bullet jacket encapsulated in yellow tallow.No worse for wear but the healed wound was at least a year old.Bone was not even fractured.Was running 150gr TTSX out of an 06 and we found the bullet 148grs /classic petals ,missing only the polymer tip.He was also full of rut/fighting puncture wounds but tender as a fawn after canning him in entirety.
 
I had no idea finding bullets in deer was that common , I've been hunting for 53 years and never had this happen after taking many deer. I still stand by my heart/lung shots comment as there is more room for error here than a small target hitting the CNS. I hope everyone had a good season enjoying the outdoors with good friends.
 
At times around here you'll find a deer with small bird shot in its rump after skinning it out as acreage owners try to scare deer out of their gardens with the shotgun.

In my mind the bullet failures listed on this thread is why it's worth spending the extra for premium. Performance from a garden variety bullet like a corlokt can be different than from say a Nosler Accubond or other premium bullets. Money well spent IMHO.
 
big bull moose I shot many years ago had a monolithic broad head and about 4" of shaft in its neck. The wound had completely healed over and it looked like the arrow was shot from above.

I've never found any extra bullets.... I guess I need to try harder :)
 
woodchopper said:
big bull moose I shot many years ago had a monolithic broad head and about 4" of shaft in its neck. The wound had completely healed over and it looked like the arrow was shot from above.

I've never found any extra bullets.... I guess I need to try harder :)
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Broadheads are biggest safety threat to butchers around here putting game through band saw, so I am told.
 
Somebody else posted a 1/2 hour vid by "the real gunsmith" about using the proper bullet. He seemed to be more upset about the guys shooting 6.5 Creed utilizing target rounds claiming to hammer elk at 800yds.
I'm a boiler room guy myself, but my friends dad still swares by the neck shot.
 
cbh560 said:
This is a likely result of our new SK caliber restrictions for big game hunting. Opens up the legal opportunity to hunt big game (including moose, elk, etc.) with cartridges far to small to get the job done properly, regardless of shot placement.
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Meanwhile in AB, my 22 Creedmoor shooting an 88gr bullet at 3100 fps is not permitted but my wife's 243 Winchester shooting a 90gr bullet at 3100 fps is good deer medicine ;-).

But in all seriousness, a man we were hunting with in the Queen Charlottes shot a big black bear that had a burl looking growth on a rib where the bone had grown around a bullet. It happens!
 
cbh560 said:
This is a likely result of our new SK caliber restrictions for big game hunting. Opens up the legal opportunity to hunt big game (including moose, elk, etc.) with cartridges far to small to get the job done properly, regardless of shot placement.
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Hogwash. A 223 through the lungs kills deer just fine. Big difference between an unethical cartridge and an unethical shooter.
 
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