so i'm eating supper last night

[MiG25]

eating a roast from a little basket buck i got last year for supper last night and what do i come across...

looks to me like it is from a .243? when i was skinning it i found the lead core between the skin and the shoulder muscle and assumed that it was from a .22 as it was a piece of lead roughly looking like an expanded 22LR. the skin was healed and the buck showed no signs of injury.

 

[L0veM0nKeY]

thats amazing!

 

[groove]

Thats incredible. The area around the bullet was totally healed (first photo).

 

[Silverado]

Good thing you didn't bit down on it!

 

[powdergun]

Good thing you didn't choke on it. The lefty medie would have the headline:

" Another Hunter Killed by a Stray Bullet "

 

[H Wally]

Woah! I feel bad for the animal. Not many of them get shot twice in two differnt seasons!

 

[droid1963]

LOL... neat find.

 

[woodchopper]

Well I guess that was not enough bullet and a poor shot.

I found an arrowhead with about 4" of fiberglass shaft in a moose neck that was healed over.

 

[Boombb]

Cool find...... remarkable that a deer can recover from a GSW

 

[crazy_fool1]

neat find, that quite a story

 

[promac]

Send it to the registry and find out who it belongs too!

 

[grunt19]

I shoot a 5 point buck one time when I was skinning it we found bird shot all through its neck and front left shoulder ........ cool find

 

[browning nb]

grunt19 that I dont find to cool. What kind of idiot would shot a deer with birdshot.

 

[DARKARCHER]

good thing you didnt eat it ...it would suck to pass it ...

 

[woodchopper]

grunt19 that I dont find to cool. What kind of idiot would shot a deer with birdshot.

I was talking with someone the other day about deer and they said that they wer fine with eating deer but only if there was no lead shot in it

Turns out that a few years back they got some deer but when they cooked it they found a bunch of shot pellets in it.

Not a problem for me really as I'm shooting deer with either the 25-06 or 300WM and bullets tend to fully penetrate a deer.

They must of got the deer that someone else had previously shot with a shotgun and bird shot.

 

[MagnumPeanut]

That is neat. Deer are tough, tough animals. My brother in law shot a deer last year that had a bullet wound just under then spine in the rear of the animal that was partially healed. He said the deer showed no sign of injury. You could tell it was definitely shot tho.

 

[444shooter]

Always use enough gun
Have you measured the bullets base and weighed it? Would be interesting to know.

 

[super7]

good thing your eyes found it before your teeth did

 

[Shoosting]

Thats a pretty neat find! Would be agood conversation piece, so long as it didn't break your teeth!

 

[Eagleye]

I have on 3 occasions shot moose that had been shot in a previous season, and the wounds were healed, but showed a bit of the original trauma in the gunshot area. Two cases were with 30 cal centerfires, and one was a 22LR bullet up against a rib. The 22 had broken the rib, but failed to penetrate into the cavity. I shot a small buck deer with a ½" diameter pine limb sticking out of his body right at the rear of the lung area. The stick had penetrated into the body and broken off at about 10", so was sticking out about 7" The deer seemed just fine, but there was some inflammation around the wound, but no infection or necrotic tissue. I believe it would healed in time. Regards, Eagleye.