Bird Shot in My Venison Sausage

We had a doe one season that someone had broadsided with small shot. It penetrated into the meat but not the organs, the whole rib cage was greenish and infected. Shooting probably saved her a slow painful death.
 
My brother took a very decent 6x6 elk - found 90% healed wound - 2 of a three bladed arrowhead - in its brisket. Must have been stepping forward as the much too low shot came in - about an inch of arrow shaft left on it. Our Dad got a whitetail buck - found a .22 bullet fully grown in and scarred over under the hide on its rear end.
 
We used to butcher our own game, including making sausage and hamburger. One whitetail doe my father shot appeared to be in ok condition until it was skinned. Upon removing the hide we noticed along the spine there was a bulge, which was accidentally touched with a knife. The amount of green puss that oozed from that deer was disturbing, not to mention the smell. The deer had been shot by another Hunter, perhaps the season before, and my guess was it would have eventually died from the wound, given the size of the corruption.

We all owe it to ourselves as hunters and to the game to make responsible choices...

North
 
Butchered more than a few deer over the years and have found buckshot, birdshot, broadheads, XTP bullet that separated the core from the jacket and only the jacket was in the side of the deer and in one case about 6 inches of a stick healed over and scar tissue around in the lower chest of a doe.

Some folks wonder how a whitetail can take a seemingly solid hit and still never be found. Usually because they are not dead or do not lay down to die for miles. Folks do not give these critters the credit they deserve when it comes to the will to live and just how tough they are.
When you can separate the heart from the lungs at less than 5 yds, knock the buck to the ground and he still gets up from a 50 cal whack and piles into a fence 30 yds away then up again and off for another 60 yds well that is tough.
 
MiG25 said:
Eating suppet one night i was picking the meat off a venison shoulder blade roast, my knife hit something immediately recognizable as not meat or bone, it was an expanded bullet next to the bone surrounded by scar tissue. Had no idea it was there until then.
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I killed a 4 year old bull moose and had a similar experience a .22 slug had partially penetrated a rib and suffered a huge growth. That same moose had a stunted a antler on the opposite side that was growing into his eye socket! WLO/ biologist suggested the bone growth on the rib was sacrificed from the antler.
 
kamlooky said:
One chap recently told me of a deer he got.
Skinning out the animal he found a bunch of pellets from a pellet gun.
He said there were quite a few.
I guess someone dint like deer awn their property.
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This was my first assumption also instead of assuming the worst. Someone trying to scare off a nuisance deer that is raiding the garden... far less of a d-bag than is being attributed. Even so, at this point in life raiders on gardens might soon be a threat to existence so throwing >0.30" pellets might be the new norm.
 
Gatehouse said:
In my group of friends we have found a few broadheads stuck into various parts of various animals, but I think if you took your meat to a butcher, you got some goose meat added to your sausage. And the goose hunter likely got some of your venison.
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A friend of mine shot a decent sized whitetail buck a few years ago and noticed a golf ball sized lump on its neck. Further inspection he found a broadhead which was festered around it but the skin was starting too heal over it. Didnt penetrate deep enough too cause serious damage but must have been a painful reminder of a piss poor archery shot.
 
cows that had their testicles shot off,,, we learn something new every day!

Cows and bulls have bags . . . both for different purposes.

Both have tits too contrary to the saying "useless as tits on a bull" but it is a genetic thing just like men.

Now the the thread is completely off track . . . I tell my butcher that my ground meat is the first through the grinder and there is no lead or other metal and hair in my meat.
 
I've never heard of anyone cutting their venison with goose meat. Is that a thing?
If it is the butchers mistake then I'm glad I process my own meat. Any mistakes I make only affect me.
 
Buddy shot a deer with a 3 foot stake of wood up in it's guts and fresh . The piece of wood was maybe 2 inches wide by 1 inch thick by 3 feet long and was grey cedar and half rotten . The only thing we could figure was the deer was trying to jump the neighbors split cedar rail fence and hit the top rail with it's belly , broke a piece of the top rail out and the piece stabbed into it . The piece entered right at the back center of the ribs and angled up towards the tail . The deer was walking with it's head down when buddy shot it . Must have happened that morning as it was fresh .
 
Buddy of mine was cutting the rack and skull cap out of a buck with a chainsaw and saw sparks. Deer had a broad head embedded in the front of it's skull healed over and shaft gone. He has it up on the wall in his shed with all his other racks but screwed an arrow shaft into the broad head for display purposes. He said the deer was healthy.
 
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Forest1488 said:
I get the butcher and goose thing but that brings up two responses. One, my butcher's reputation is solid and has been doing this for longer than most of us have been alive. Second, what water fowl hunter would use #6 on a goose?

I am pretty sure this was some nutter out with his shotgun hunting or just blasting and this deer crossed his path.
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Are you sure it's a 6 or just guessing? Lead or steel?
 
I remember years ago cutting up a doe with birdshot in the neck and wondering what a-hole would do that, I had buckshot in my sausage one year because the butcher was just weighing the meat we brought in and giving you back something appropriate weight wise but it was always someone else's meat.
 
Not a hunting tale, but shows how tough animals are. A few years ago I saw a cow moose missing a hind leg, and she was all healed up. She had a calf with her, so she must have been doing ok.
Kristian
 
Forest1488 said:
I get the butcher and goose thing but that brings up two responses. One, my butcher's reputation is solid and has been doing this for longer than most of us have been alive. Second, what water fowl hunter would use #6 on a goose?I am pretty sure this was some nutter out with his shotgun hunting or just blasting and this deer crossed his path.
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Well actually...a friend of my old man's that hunted with us on many many goose hunts purposely used # 6 or even 7.5 on geese, His premise was that the smaller pellet penetrated & cut through the feathers easier than the #2's or BB's the rest of us used and you know what, we could never find any reason to challenge him on it, as he shot goose-for-goose with anybody else we ever shot with...you cant argue with success. I can personally attest to seeing him fold dead 40 yrd flyway geese.
 
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