The first bullet you used to kill something

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just a quick question, i've been wondering about it for a long time.

what did you do with the recovered bullet after your first kill?

Did you melt it down and re-cast it into a new bullet or just get rid of it or save it?.

I would save mine and put it with some other things i have that i would pass down.

so what do you do with them?.
 
I put it into an empty surplus 762soviet case. And it's sitting in front of me with some other empties.
Bullet was from a 30-30.
Slipped my mind at the time to keep the case.

Some day I might put it into a fancy display case or something.
 
I never recovered the bullet from my 1st deer.
It was a 25 yard shot at a 6 pointer with the good old Lee Enfield #4 303.
I do have the casing from that shot though.
I put it on a chain to wear around my neck.
 
I have the bullet from my second kill, but not the first, since the shots that hit passed through. But I well remember recovering the bullet from the second deer I shot [in 1959]
A decent 4x3 muley with a very heavy body. The round was a factory 30-06 180 grain Kling-Kor soft point, and it is a perfect mushroom. I recovered it from under the hide on the offside of this deer. The deer went maybe 20 feet after I shot, and I was about as excited as anyone could get! Ahhhh! Memories!. Wish I had the energy today that I had then. Regards, Eagleye.
 
I'm certain it went in this order. About a thousand .177 pellets, then say about 300 .22 LR bullets, then one day when I was 12.. whatever the federal 175gr load is in a 7mm RM. That was first deer. Second deer was 150gr flat points in a 30-30.

That was a while ago and I have found a few of them. Most of the pretty ones from 150gr powerpoints in .270 winchester.
 
I have been a bullet digger since basically day 1. I have quite a collection now, after 50 years or so. Once I started using Partitions, I found that I only was able to collect about 20% of the bullets shot at game, since most were pass-throughs. Nevertheless, the recovered bullets have been informative, to say the least.
Here's a 140 Accubond recovered from a deer 5 years ago.
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Here are a few of the partitions I have recovered. I think I have about 3-4 more since this pic was taken.
 
My first edible kill, was a grouse, killed with a head shot from a 177 pellet rifle.
Not recovered!
Lots of squirrels fell to that mean beasty too.

My first deer fell to a 30-30 Winchester 170 grain Silvertip factory load. It also was not recovered, as the heart shot was about 50 feet, and the deer was running, it exited, never to be seen again. The deer made it about two bounds after the hit.
 
First kill was a chickadee shot out my bedroom window over 40 years ago used a 22 short can't remember the make and didn't recover the bullet.

First deer was a Queen Charlotte Island Sitka blacktail taken with a 270 Weatherby Mag using 130gr Factory spitzers used that same rifle with a handloaded 160gr bullet to shoot my largest deer as well.

I have hardly ever had a bullet not pass thru and the only ones I can think of that I was able to recover where 2 300gr Partitons shot from a 375 H&H into an immature bull moose @ about 100 yards.
 
Here's mine. A 139gr from a 6.5x55 factory PMC cartridge. Shot my first whitetail with it in NB where I grew up. A nice 6 point buck from a tree stand walking straight away from me. When he finally gave me a slight angle, I shot him at the last rib and recovered the bullet in the off side shoulder.

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1st animal I shot was a tuktu(caribou) ... right after I shot him I shot the one next to him ... it didn't die instantly like the first one ... was super excited and stabbed that one in the back of the head ... still have the knife ... no bullets or casings though ... ;)

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
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