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I helped a fiend skin a bear yesterday,clean shot.About half way done found a bump between the shoulder blades.Under the hide in cist was this bullet.I think it was shot last year as the hind had healed.
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The bullet was clean and shiny weighs 101g and is 30 cal.

Gord.
 
It is hard to tell,will have a closer look when we bone it out.Left shoulder blade is shaped funny.I think it could have been from the back,running away.
 
Might of hit a branch and sheared before entering the bear. So it wouldn't have gone very deep. There are lots of might have's.
 
Dench said:
Animals are tough!
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Isn't that the truth. Many many years ago I worked in a butcher shop and worked on a lot of wild game. Finding encysted bullets was actually common. One moose I recall had five. However, four of them were .22 slugs.:mad:
 
Dogleg said:
Somewhere there's one guy saying "I hit him solid" and another that says "You missed"

Can you trace the bullet path from scarring?
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And somewhere their is a guy saying: " I told you your .308 was too little for bear!":D
 
bcsteve said:
And somewhere their is a guy saying: " I told you your .308 was too little for bear!":D
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I was going to say that but chickened out.;) There probably a whiskey fueled session somewhere where one guy maintains he hit it perfect and the bullet failed, but his unsympathetic audience signs onto the "poor placement roster".

Bullet failures happen. Poor placement happens. Texas heart shots happen. Misses happen. Poor bullet choices happen. Someone mentioned hitting brush first? Yeah that happens too. So do shots at ranges where a .308 would have to take assertiveness classes to be anemic. Maybe its showing that the much publicized high shoulder shot isn't the 100% reliable death blow that some TV likes to protray?

Without more info that we aren't going to get all we know is that a bear that wasn't dead enough last time is dead enough this time.

There should be a scar on the hide somewhere.
 
It was hit on the left side through the shoulder blade.It was a hit high.Must have hurt like hell.He sure heal up good,and was walking and running normal.
Gord.
 
My initial is stamped into the base of the Partition Protected Points in my loads ....

Too many variables involved. Have also found 'ordanance' in game animals over the years ..... buckshot, birdshot, 22 cal., etc.
 
i shot a bull moose years ago , and found a perfect 180 gr spitzer looked like a hornady 30 caliber bullet in a ball of calcium in his neck not expanded at all just the rifling marks on it , other than that it looked new ,,,wade, ,,
 
It's all dem dare tree-oh-8 shooters. Usually they jes bounce off clean like, er fall out da same side dey went in on, bet sumtymes, iffen youse real close like and load it real hot, dey might go in faar enuf ta stick and you caint jez pick up youse boolit and use it again. Ya rich city slickers laaaackly don pay thet no nevermind, sum folks are jez usen der boolits onest na-a-daze. Net 2 E fish ant 2 load dem 2 pawful.
 
I shot a unicorn buck a few years ago and he had a broadhead in his back right leg. From that year it appeared, it was starting to heal over but not actually healed yet.
 
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