I am still looking for a 220 grain 8mm A-Frame that I dug out of an Elk. It's around, but lost, temporarily. Interesting side note:
Two of the recovered bullet [both Partitions] were passthroughs, and should have been lost.
The one was shot at a Muley Buck who was sleeping at the base of a big Fir stump when I saw him. I whistled lowly, his head
came up, and I shot him in the neck with a 165 grain Partition from my 30-06. The bullet broke the neck, he died still laying down,
and when I got to him, I grabbed his head to move him, and spotted the base of that partition embedded in the bark of that Fir.
I dug it out, and it joined my collection.
The other was a big cow moose that I shot in December one year while on an LEH hunt with my oldest daughter. There was about
1½ feet of snow, with a crust that most of the time would support you, but you would break through every so often. The hunting was
tough, and because it was so noisy, the moose were forewarned of our presence. At noon we returned to the truck to eat lunch, and
while we were debating what to do next, lo and behold, 2 big cow moose came into view, 450 yards away, cutting across the edge of
the slash. I was packing a 7mm STW at the time, loaded with 160 Partitions, so I got a good rest, and hollered. The cows both stopped,
and I sent one on it's way. Cow took 2 or 3 steps, wobbled about for a few seconds and tipped over.
While we were dressing her, I went back a few feet to where she had been standing to look at the tuft of hair that the bullet had cut off
when it entered, and looking around, I saw the path of the exited slug in the snow. a little digging for about 2 feet, and there was the
expanded Partition, laying on the ground under the snow. So it ended up in my collection as well.
I would say, that the majority of my recovered bullets have come from Moose or Elk, though. Dave.
