Ever find a bullet like this?

[300WSM]

Ever find a bullet inside an animal that was not deformed whatsoever?

A friend of mine and I were talking today about some of the hunting happenings over the years and
without getting into detail on the how, when skinning said deer we came upon the second shot to finish the deer off.....needless to say there it was with the only blemish being the rifling.

Oh and the bullet was a 180 gr ballistic tip :shock:

Now I have my own theory on this and will throw that on here in a bit.

I'm still laughing about him bringing that up. :lol: :lol: :lol: I had all but forgotten about that.

 

[onesonek]

Thats what happens when one has had one too many brewski's, and loads them upside down

 

[buckfever]

So I guess you could load it again and shoot another deer :grin:

 

[gerry]

So I guess you could load it again and shoot another deer :grin:

Good way to save money :lol:

I haven't recovered any bullets like that but am pretty sure the old style 250 gr Barnes X I used on a black bear didn't open too well since the wound channel wasn't very big, the second bullet a 260 gr AccuBond opened well and stopped things in a hurry. From what I've been reading though the TTSX bullets are far more reliable than the old X which is nice to know.

 

[6mm Remington]

When I was a kid in high school my dad and his brother-in-law shot a great big old cow they aged at about 20 years old, and she had two calves with her! She was huge and fat. When they skinned her, they found 3 old bullets in her. One looked like it went through the ribs behind the shoulder and was lodged under the skin on the off-side. I do not know why that cow did not die from that shot. The ribs had all healed and scarred up. The one bullet I don't recall where that one was. Now the bullets I am talking about are not bullets they shot her with, but ones that had been in her from years past! The last one was completely non-expanded and looked like it just had barely enough energy to break the skin and was under the hide which had healed over on the side it went in. The only marks on it were rifling. I don't know what they ever did with those old bullets, but it was pretty amazing that an animal would heal and survive something like that.

 

[Polaris]

I had a speer 160 BTSP from a .280 at 100 yards fail to expand. Bullet hit the femur. ripped a few grains of lead off the tip and then bullet acted like a fmj following around the seam between hide and abdominal cavity stopping on the far side under the hide. Could have loaded and fired it again. Found the deer after a LOOOONG blood trail and a fast and lucky shot when she jumped the bed.

 

[C.Smith]

When I was a kid in high school my dad and his brother-in-law shot a great big old cow they aged at about 20 years old, and she had two calves with her! She was huge and fat. When they skinned her, they found 3 old bullets in her. One looked like it went through the ribs behind the shoulder and was lodged under the skin on the off-side. I do not know why that cow did not die from that shot. The ribs had all healed and scarred up. The one bullet I don't recall where that one was. Now the bullets I am talking about are not bullets they shot her with, but ones that had been in her from years past! The last one was completely non-expanded and looked like it just had barely enough energy to break the skin and was under the hide which had healed over on the side it went in. The only marks on it were rifling. I don't know what they ever did with those old bullets, but it was pretty amazing that an animal would heal and survive something like that.

I wonder if someone was shooting from too far away and the bullets had little energy left?

Corey

 

[Elkman]

My dad, just after the last ice age, (we were hunting out of a 50 Plymouth station wagon) ,killed a very nice buck near Fort Rock, Oregon. This was an old big mule deer buck. Upon skinning, and cleaning the deer, three 55 gr. .22 caliber bullet's were found just inches from the bucks spine, near the tail. Each was encased in a pocket of fat, and had been there for quite some time. HE apparently stopped to look back over his butt as they typically do, and not enough rifle or energy was used.
I once punched another nice mulie buck twice in the near shoulder at about 100 yards with a 22-50 , shooting a 55 gr. Remington PSP. ( somewhere around 1977). After following him for several miles in patches of snow, and by sight, I was able to get a clean finisher. Both bullets were recovered, and the shoulder was not broken. I would not have used the 250 except I was hunting coyotes at the time with an in used deer tag in my pocket. So when he came to see what the noise was about I took advantage of the opportunity.

 

[300WSM]

How this actually came about I wanted to let you all know how this happened...

The found bullet was a finishing shot....

The deer was lying at a steep angle and the shooter was down hill from it....as he pulled trigger the neck head region moved and he wound up hitting in the hind quarter...... and the bullet went in parallel to the deer. The hide and fur and skin were enough to slow the bullet down and there was no resistance pressing onto the nose of the bullet when it entered the deer.

See....Ballistic Tips are not always volatile. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Wincheringen]

I've seen two deer die with no bullet wound. One grazed the top of the skull, the other went through an antler. On another occasion my cousin shot a deer through the neck with a 125 grain bullet from a 300 win mag. The deer hit the ground, then got up and ran a short ways before another 125 grain bullet did the job. My cousin swore up and down he hit it the first time, and we looked for the wound in the field but didn't find anything. A short while later while skinning it out there were two small holes on either side of the neck, no expansion. I also know of one person cut by a broadhead blade still stuck inside a deer. I've never seen another bullet inside an animal.

 

[Greg Nolan]

I found several bullets in wild boars in various stages of upset and healed over but the real odd one was an elk killed in Colarodo by one of the other hunters. When the guides were skinning out the head they found a broadhead imbedded inside it's mouth logged in the back of the throat aginst the spine/skull connection. It seemed healthy and the shaft was gone. It looked for all the world like the elk had it's mouth open and took an unlucky hit to the tonsils. Ouch