What do you think? Last fall as I was butchering my deer and was slicing up the rear hock to make jerky slices to my surprise a piece of lead dropped out. Now this surprised me because the deer was shot broadside thru the lungs with a 30-06.
The photo attached shows what a previous blue box Federal 180 grain 30-06 did to a deer a few years ago. The last item in the photo is the piece that dropped out of the deer from last fall. At first I thought it was a 22. But comparing it to a 22 it seems a bit smaller in diameter at the base. Could it be .17? Maybe someone had taken a shot at the deer and it healed up. However this time I was using Federal Hi Shok ammo with what I believe could have been a partition bullet. I'm not sure as I don't have the box it came in. Could this small projectile be the core of the partition? Just curious to see what you think. As a footnote the 30-06 bullet you see was taken from a deer shot pretty much broadside but again I only found it in the rear hindquarter when butchering it. Do bullets have these strange trajectories once they hit a live animal?
The photo attached shows what a previous blue box Federal 180 grain 30-06 did to a deer a few years ago. The last item in the photo is the piece that dropped out of the deer from last fall. At first I thought it was a 22. But comparing it to a 22 it seems a bit smaller in diameter at the base. Could it be .17? Maybe someone had taken a shot at the deer and it healed up. However this time I was using Federal Hi Shok ammo with what I believe could have been a partition bullet. I'm not sure as I don't have the box it came in. Could this small projectile be the core of the partition? Just curious to see what you think. As a footnote the 30-06 bullet you see was taken from a deer shot pretty much broadside but again I only found it in the rear hindquarter when butchering it. Do bullets have these strange trajectories once they hit a live animal?
