Interesting find in doe

[dalesholder]

I was cutting up my doe today and found a .177 caliber pellet in the meat above the back straps. Was boning out the upper ribs and saw something dark in the emat cut around it . A pellet 1 of the pointed ones. Now this is farm country andm there are quite a few houses around as well. I am wondering if someone tried to chase it out of a garden or flower bed or some kid was using her for target practice. Didnt seem to have been in long no gristle grown around it yet. I kept it put it in the gun cabinet as another curiosity.

[galthatfishes]

I hate hearing that. UGH. Glad you found it and didn't break a tooth on it, lol

[Dutch]

Those pellets are effective on feral cats, not that I do it, but I know someone that does.

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I never found a pellet in my deer. Usually no. 6 shot and .22 lr bullets are what I find in them.

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Talk about finding something interesting in your deer carcass, here is what my buddy Larry found in his buck this year. There was a wound that we found when we skinned the buck that obviously was made by a broadhead. It entered on the top of the left side of the thigh and exited a few inches from the lower end of the right thigh, missing the femur completely. The triangle formed by the three blades of the broadhead leads us to believe the archer was using something like a thunderhead broadhead.

At the butcher shop, our butcher found the jacket of what appeared to be a bullet fired from an inline in the right shoulderblade. The best guess is that a hunter shot at a doe and the bullet passed through her and hit the buck, because if the buck were to have been the target the bullet would probably have killed him. Larry's shot with his crossbow took out both lungs, so this guy's charmed life came to an end.

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Dec 8, 2012 17:20:48 GMT -5 dalesholder said:

I was cutting up my doe today and found a .177 caliber pellet in the meat above the back straps. Was boning out the upper ribs and saw something dark in the emat cut around it . A pellet 1 of the pointed ones. Now this is farm country andm there are quite a few houses around as well. I am wondering if someone tried to chase it out of a garden or flower bed or some kid was using her for target practice. Didnt seem to have been in long no gristle grown around it yet. I kept it put it in the gun cabinet as another curiosity.

Interesting Dale. Over the years Ive found several broadheads some with arrow stubs on some with none. Neverr found any other bullet(outside mine) nor pellets etc.

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Dec 14, 2012 7:41:24 GMT -5 @loggy said:

Dec 8, 2012 17:20:48 GMT -5 dalesholder said:

I was cutting up my doe today and found a .177 caliber pellet in the meat above the back straps. Was boning out the upper ribs and saw something dark in the emat cut around it . A pellet 1 of the pointed ones. Now this is farm country andm there are quite a few houses around as well. I am wondering if someone tried to chase it out of a garden or flower bed or some kid was using her for target practice. Didnt seem to have been in long no gristle grown around it yet. I kept it put it in the gun cabinet as another curiosity.

Interesting Dale. Over the years Ive found several broadheads some with arrow stubs on some with none. Neverr found any other bullet(outside mine) nor pellets etc.

You need to hunt Lebanon county if you want to find .22 bullets and birdshot in your deer. Heck, last years doe was like trying to eat a pheasant, have to keep spitting out 6 shot.

[dennyf]

Not that I condone such idiocy, but a bud's brother was once arrested for shooting a neighbor's barking dogs with his pellet rifle. He claimed the dog's owner refused to do anything about the dog hanging at the fence and barking for hours on end, so he popped it with the pellet rifle.

Examination at the vet's indicated that the hound had about six or eight pellets lodged under his hide, none that had caused any infections, etc.

The guy's response at his hearing, when the police reported the vet had removed all those pellets: That thing is more accurate than I thought it was.

Cost the knucklehead some serious money in fines and vet costs.

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I thought I might find something embedded in the buck my wife killed as he had a non-typical left side antler and a normal right side antler.
From everything I've read and been told, the left side anomaly most likely was the result of an injury to the "right" side of the deer.

So, with that in mind I went slowly through the butchering process on the right side.
No discoveries there, so I began working the left side, --- same side as the weird antler, as shown below.

Left side antler anomaly:


Ok, 3/4 of the way through removing the backstrap on the left side I hit a large pocket of grizzle behind the left shoulder!
There was no broadhead or slug, just a very tough muscle-like knot of flesh , covered with what looked like heavy scar tissue.