Found a surprise in my whitetail

Also, I shot two whitetails a week ago - one in the neck/shoulder junction and the other a high lung shot that didn't even touch a rib on the way in. Both fell out of sight by the time I recovered from the recoil. 200gr ELD-X at 3000 fps is good for any shot placement this side of a Texas heart shot :-D. Slightly overkill but better than the other way around.

A mule deer from a few weeks back didn't react to a high lung shot with the 243 90gr Accubond. It just kept walking and then keeled over eventually. Tough bullets aren't necessarily the best on soft game.
 
A mule deer from a few weeks back didn't react to a high lung shot with the 243 90gr Accubond. It just kept walking and then keeled over eventually. Tough bullets aren't necessarily the best on soft game.[/QUOTE]

Did it's job though eh? I high lunged a 2x3 a few weeks ago with a 300gr muzz at about 60yds (not even sure what kind, came in a bag with the gun). It took off before the smoke cleared and dropped after running about 40ish yards. It stopped broadside in front of me before it toppled though, ''twas a bit nervous.....lol
 
shakeyjake said:
Did it's job though eh? I high lunged a 2x3 a few weeks ago with a 300gr muzz at about 60yds (not even sure what kind, came in a bag with the gun). It took off before the smoke cleared and dropped after running about 40ish yards. It stopped broadside in front of me before it toppled though, ''twas a bit nervous.....lol
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For sure! Better too tough a bullet than too frangible. That's why I got the Accubonds, just to be on the safe side with the smallest caliber I've ever used on big/medium game.
 
9mill said:
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.
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Both my wife and I found a .177 pellets in hind quarter cuts from a whitetail last season, I #### it in a cutblock nearby a friends place. He was telling me about shooting deer in the ass while they were in the garden with his pellet rifle, pretty sure it was his pellets we found.
 
So does a .222/ 24gr Win 748 and a Hornady 55gr SP with the old cannelure.A dozen Ontario WT one per customer loaded for my Dad.
 
Retriever said:
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.
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The exact same thing happened with a buck I shot a couple of seasons ago. I peeled the hide down and half a dozen 000 pellets were just under the hide between the neck and shoulder that should have killed it. My guess is it was a long range "hail Mary" shot by some dummy that didn't know better.
 
Suther said:
Hogwash. A 223 through the lungs kills deer just fine. Big difference between an unethical cartridge and an unethical shooter.
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Been my experience. Last doe I took, I pulled the remains of the bullet out from the inside, of her offside leg. Placement counts.

Helped a bud cut up a buck a few years ago, that had a broad head wedged in one of the vertebra. Buck had otherwise looked pretty healthy.
 
Once I saw a white tail doe with a basket ball sized growth hanging off her neck. I thought about just shooting the damn thing and leaving it in the field but didn't.


Yuck.
 
I shots goose a few years back. While removing the breasts I noticed a lump in the breast bone. Turned out to be a .22 and the bone had actually started to grow around it.
 
hunter5425 said:
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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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Was the fresh clotting around the bullet? or the entrance wound in the skin? How deep in was the bullet? The fresh blood and clotting could easily be due to the jagged edges of the bullet constantly aggravating the wound as the animal moved its neck.
 
You read all these stories of fellas finding buckshot, 22 cal., 30 cal., broad heads etc. in animals from years gone by. Amazing how these animals survived in nature with no medical attention. I bet many do not though. But I doubt many humans would survive after being shot and living under the same circumstances.
 
Its tough to believe but sometimes many things can be survived. I had a patient walk into one of the clinics up north once that came in the next day after being assaulted and stabbed at least 10x into each lung and near the heart and liver and neck area and walked in asking for stitches only because there stab wounds hurt. No he didn't die and was back after being sent to a trauma center for a few days. Some people/animals a survivors and hard to kill.
 
Rich the Butcher said:
I shots goose a few years back. While removing the breasts I noticed a lump in the breast bone. Turned out to be a .22 and the bone had actually started to grow around it.
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I’ve found this exact thing. Below is a photo of a perfectly expanded hollow point that I’ve pulled out of a goose breast. I cant tell you how many airgun pellets I’ve found in waterfowl

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philhut said:
Its tough to believe but sometimes many things can be survived. I had a patient walk into one of the clinics up north once that came in the next day after being assaulted and stabbed at least 10x into each lung and near the heart and liver and neck area and walked in asking for stitches only because there stab wounds hurt. No he didn't die and was back after being sent to a trauma center for a few days. Some people/animals a survivors and hard to kill.
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Cameron SS said:
Was the fresh clotting around the bullet? or the entrance wound in the skin? How deep in was the bullet? The fresh blood and clotting could easily be due to the jagged edges of the bullet constantly aggravating the wound as the animal moved its neck.
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The bullet was about 2.5" deep with a lot of torn muscle under the skin, the clot seemed to go from the entrance hole to the bullet. Looks like it expanded rapidly but with little penetration, of course I have no idea of the cartridge or distance the shot was taken.
 
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