First time I’ve ever recovered a bullet...

[dbelcher269]

Weird I know. I’m 40 and have been hunting my whole life, and have lost count of the number of animals I’ve killed over the years. With the exception of BBs with my teeth I’ve Never bothered to even try and find a bullet myself. This was a .300 Blackout 120 grain SIG HT round. I’ve had great luck with them in the past on pigs and other game. Jensen shot his buck with it and in the process of butchering found this lodged in the offside shoulder. I’d say it held together pretty well with one “petal” missing and much better testing than ballistics gell. The other petal was in the meat nearby, but I lost it.

[Leon County Slayer]

Pretty cool find. Only found one myself and it was a 9mm and was all mushroomed properly

[RifleBowPistol]

I have found a at least a few over the years. I recovered a 135 gr. Sierra Single Shot Pistol bullet, fired from a 14" 30-30 T/C Contender, from a axis buck I shot, that was running up a hill. The buck was going up a hill, quartering away from me. The bullet hit high on the left side, mid way down the body, stopped under the hide on the front side of the right shoulder.

Another one I recovered was a nice 9 point I shot as a strong cold front was blowing in, while we were having a severe drought. Turned into a serious dust storm, like the dust bowl days up in the panhandle. This was outside of Big Wells. I shot the buck, while he was drinking from a small water hole, hit him right around 200 yards out, that was as far as I could see at that point. Hit him in the right shoulder, he stood up on his hind legs, stumbled backwards, fell, got up and ran about 20 yards and dropped. I hit him with a 7mm Rem. Mag. out of my first gen Sendero. The bullet was a 140 gr. Nosler Ballistic tip. The bullet hit him in the right shoulder and stopped under the skin on the left shoulder.

The most recent bullet I recovered, was a 270 caliber 130 gr., Sierra Game King, from my first mule deer. I shot it through the lungs around 200 yards, with my 270 AR. The second shot, went through the liver. The buck eventually went down, I found him, jumped him, from behind a large sage bush. He ran, so I shot at him, while he was running away. I hit him in the right hind quarter. That stopped him, then I finished him with a neck shot. The shot into the right hind quarter, stopped in the left hind quarter. That was a tough buck, turns out he had been shot with a bow, through the front of the chest, a year or two earlier. The arrow went past his lungs, to at least his liver. He healed up and was fine, chasing a doe when I shot him the first time.

Pretty sure I have recovered other bullets, just don't remember them.

[Wayspr]

We’ve killed 3 good bucks this year with a 6.5 PRC shooting a 130 gr TGK, recovered all 3 bullets under skin on the off side. 2 of the 3 were bang flops, one ran 30 yards. Scares me not getting exits. Think I’ll move to Accubonds or Barnes next year.

[KX500]

Cool picture - same load I use in my 300 BLK, so good to know what a used bullet can look like.

Unless you hit shoulder/ham, bullet usually passes through, not going to find it.

I've found many bullets like this & can't think of a single one that was from a deer that I'd tracked a long way with a poor blood trail due to no exit wound.

Those bullets go through some pretty important stuff before they get to the hide by the off-side shoulder!

[Worksalot]

The only intact bullets I’ve found were while metal detecting open soccer and baseball fields inside a city limits. I can only speculate that perhaps they were fired nearby (foolishly) during New Years Eve or some other holiday after dark. The sports park is adjacent to a well used hike/bike track. All of these recovered bullets were dug up at approximately 5 inches to 12 inches below the surface. I was actually surprised to find such things with a metal detector at that location. Most were 9mm and 45 ACP caliber.