Bullet found in elk

[ID_Matt]

Found this lodged in a knee while processing my buddies archery bull last night... my only guess is a 577 nitro express? I have no idea. My first reaction was muzzle loader but the diameter doesn’t make sense with that. What do you guys think?


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[AGPank]

Interesting. My first rifle bull we found a Broadhead in the scapula bent and surrounded by scar tissue, also had what looked like 22 cal bullets just below hide.

Found a couple muzzle loader rounds in another bull when I was guiding. Both just penetrating the hide.


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[Btaylor]

Just more evidence of bowhunters roaming the woods wounding a bunch of stuff.

Where's the sarcasm button?

 

[jcor]

My first mule deer had a .22 bullet lodged in his brisket under the skin. Maybe a shotgun slug?

 

[ID_Matt]

I asked a few people and the one that made the most sense was a shotgun slug... looks like a 12 ga remington saboted slug. One of the indicators that someone pointed out to me was there was no rifling marks on the bullet. There is a "short range weapons only" unit about 50 or more miles from the unit we hunt. Shotguns are legal there and the hunt runs late. My guess is the bull meandered down there to winter and someone took a long shot.

 

[Dakota Dude]

Looks like you were slugging a silver smoothie!

In all seriousness, I've never seen a shotgun slug that looks like that.

 

[DAOutfitters208]

Found this, in the article it mentions..."The expanded diameter of five of the .58-cal., 385-gr. slugs recovered from ballistic gelatin" in reference to the Remington Premier Accutip Sabot Slug on page 3. So you are more than likely correct, hit in that shotgun unit.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/Webcontent/pdf/2009-10/20091022135226-r808_f_shotgunslugs.pdf

 

[ID_Matt]

Looks like you were slugging a silver smoothie!

In all seriousness, I've never seen a shotgun slug that looks like that.

CL Smoothies are essential for meat cutting

 

[ID_Matt]

Found this, in the article it mentions..."The expanded diameter of five of the .58-cal., 385-gr. slugs recovered from ballistic gelatin" in reference to the Remington Premier Accutip Sabot Slug on page 3. So you are more than likely correct, hit in that shotgun unit.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/Webcontent/pdf/2009-10/20091022135226-r808_f_shotgunslugs.pdf

that is the exact one I was looking at as well... slug didn't do much damage. was lodged in the knee area with scar tissue around it but no gangrene or broken bone. Must have been a hail mary shot

 

[Dakota Dude]

I'll be doing the same tonight!

 

[Bj35gt]

I believe that is a Remington accutip slug


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[rayporter]

yep I think it is too.

Remington Is also making .452 accutips for muzzle loading.

 

[Txbownut]

Crazy find

 

[6mm Remington]

My father and his brother in law shot a huge cow elk one year. Tough old girl took 3 shots to kill her. When we cut her up she had two old bullets that we recovered. One looked like it went through the lungs and stopped under the hide on the opposite side. It was perfectly mushroomed and I don't know why that would not have killed her as it sure looked like it should have been fatal. The second bullet had just enough poop on it to penetrate the hide in the rib area behind the shoulder and stayed there. It did not have enough velocity on it to even expand. I'd hate to say how far away she was when some idiot took a poke at her. Pretty amazing what those animals can survive and prosper through.