Larry at Butchers Corner in Beaumont gave me a hollow point bullet yesterday (looks like a Barnes).....his assistant found it in a ribeye steak off a moose they were processing......the bullet is perfectly intact, hollow point and all, but the rifing marks are on the bullet......like it had been shot but remained totally intact.....now I realize that one could push a bullet thru a rifle to get rifling marks but I checked the base of the bullet and there is no evidence of it being dented or marked up.......Larry is no liar and neither is his helper, but I can't figure out the fact that the bullet is still so perfect.......I took the best pictures I could of it and I will beg someone to post them for me so we can all have a look.....there was some blood and a bit of tissue on the bullet and the rifling is deep, straight and crisp.If it were someone other than Larry telling me this Id think it was a fraud.....but.....
Long shot / tumbling bullet or what
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I've dug lots of Barnes bullets out of the dirt bank at the gun club, when testing cast bullets, and they(x-bullets, TSXs) are intact just like you describe, must be the way they hit....if they hit at an angle maybe it closes up the hollow pt. and precludes any expansion???
[quote='Boo]Probably an older "X" bullet or Winchester "FailSafe" both of which have been known to not open at times.
Did they think it was "fresh" or had it been embeded in the moose for a season or two?[/quote]
It is hard to say how long the moose carried it for.....it looked like someone took it out of the bullet box yesterday. No corrosion or stain etc on it at all.
Did they think it was "fresh" or had it been embeded in the moose for a season or two?[/quote]
It is hard to say how long the moose carried it for.....it looked like someone took it out of the bullet box yesterday. No corrosion or stain etc on it at all.
I had an X-bullet do just that on a deer about 5yrs ago.I shot the deer straight on in the chest with a 30-06 X.I cant remenber what grain it was.Recovered the bullet wedged against the spine over the hams fully intact.The only way you could tell it wasnt new was the rifleing marks on it.
I now use Partitions and Scirrocos.They work every time.
I now use Partitions and Scirrocos.They work every time.
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