Broadhead in bone!

[buck man]

I was visiting a bud in California while working,and he pulled out an unusual conversation piece. It is the leg bone off a benchleg he shot with his rifle that had this broadhead embedded in its bone right below the joint. It had been there for a while. You can see the bone growing through the ribs of the blade.

Have any of you had a similar experience? What kind of broadhead is it?

To me it looks like a satellite, or a thunderhead. 

Pics were with my cell phone, but they turned out pretty good! Had to get real close to see the definition in the bone growth.

[yote]

That's pretty wild

[trophyhunt]

Ouch, I can't imagine walking around with that in my bones.

[Crunchy]

Looks to be a thunderhead broadhead.

[brew]

drew an any bull archery tag in the manastash a few years back and arrowed a 6 pt bull.  when skinning it out had a broadhead stuck into the neck vertebrae attached to 2" of arrow shaft with about a softball sized lump growing around it.  it wasn't from that year so someone else had previously taken a poke at him.  wish i had taken a pic---it was pretty knarly...tough critters

[sirfunkeybut]

My buddy bought a couple packs of those at walmart on discount for 50 cents a piece. We had blades come out while shooting a "block" target. That same buddy had helped with an elk that had a healed over broadhead in its femur.

[birdwacker]

I shot a 3x3 whitetail  during modern and found a perfectly healed broadhead in the back straps .

[haulinbass]

Looks like a thunderhead.

[Button Nubbs]

Looks like a thunderhead.

[martin1]

i shot a spike elk that had a broadhead in the backstraps but lucky enough it healed up so it was still good. the deer that i shot that year had a broadhead stuck in the underside of the shoulder and had to throw the whole deer away!!! :bash:oh well i did that buck favor and he didnt suffer anymore. when i shot  the buck or the spike you  couldnt even tell they where hurt

[atc250r18]

My buddy shot a 5x6 rossie this year...he had a broken front leg.  It looked like he had been shot because the opposite leg looked grazed.  When we were butchering we found a broadhead in the shoulder blade and a 270-7mm bullet lodged  against his spine.   Them animals is tough!

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[MooseStock]

I shot a 6x6 Bull in the White River area about 15 years ago(Modern Rifle) that had a broad head piercing through the Big front shoulder Blade bone. We cut our own meat up. It had formed a pocket around the broad head that looked like a huge cyst and it had healed. We just cut out around the pocket to get back into good solid meat and it was fine eating. We had no clue from the outside there had been a wound until we cut it up. It was an old nice bull that probably had had bigger racks when more in his prime but I had it measured up along with a Bigger Bull I had gotten that made the Washington state book and it would have make the book with an archery score.....some hunter had a solid hit on the one that got away..........Les

[ICEMAN]

Ouch, I can't imagine walking around with that in my bones.

I can....

[Dan-o]

I found an elk carcass while elk hunting several years ago that had a broadhead embedded in a clavicle.

It had a lump of stuff (solid - calcium???) growing around it.   

[RadSav]

I've found quite a few bullets, but never a broadhead.  Though my old butcher used to have half a dozen or so on his wall.  Pretty neat how a deer and elk's body can grow over such sharp pieces.  We shot a deer one year that had a stick almost the full length of one lung.  That bugger was a race horse!  Took us three days to finally catch him taking a break.  Definately a Thunderhead 100 in the picture.

[erk444]

Ouch, I can't imagine walking around with that in my bones.

I can....

What happened?

[ICEMAN]

Ouch, I can't imagine walking around with that in my bones.

I can....

What happened?

Had both my hips replaced this winter, Nov 12th and Dec 3rd..... 

I am walking around with a whole lot of steel in my hip bones...

[JohnVH]

I shot a 3x3 whitetail  during modern and found a perfectly healed broadhead in the back straps .

we were boning out a buddies deer this year that had a broadhead all healed up in the backstrap too, no arrow shaft, looks like it unscrewed itself and it healed around the broadhead..

[carpsniperg2]

My buddy has a pretty cool one like that but it's the front shoulder off "I think" a 5 point bull. It's amazing what animals can take and live threw.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Thats amazing!! Looks.to be a Thunderhead.

[Wildsau]

Lookes like, yet another case of trying ot shoot too far.  An arrow is not designed to be shot 100 yrds and kill a wild animal the size of an Elk or deer.  Anything past 50 should be with an MF. 

[blacktailcody]

I found 15 pellets from airguns in my deer.

[preacherman]

I live in island county and it is pretty common to find buckshot in our deer. In fact I have found some in almost every one I've butchered.

Last year a guy I know shot a young buck that had a pretty bad limp on one of his front legs when we found him I noticed that there was a spur of bone sticking out of that leg. His leg had healed with 1/2-1" of bone sticking out. It was an old injury, bone and skin completely healed, just healed wrong.

[buck man]

Lookes like, yet another case of trying ot shoot too far.  An arrow is not designed to be shot 100 yrds and kill a wild animal the size of an Elk or deer.  Anything past 50 should be with an MF. 

Man you must work for csi! How can you tell that from some simple photos!? I can tell from your avitar pic that that hog was shot at 1126 yards using a 300 win mag on the California coast. You were wearing Bermuda shorts, with a wife beater white tank on, and drinking. The shot was off hand and your blind in your right eye, but yet your shooting right handed!

Please keep your self imposed stupid, and idiotic comments to yourself wildsau until you know the facts.

Ps...I am sure you have NEVER made a bad shot or a bad hunting decision.

[Wildsau]

Lookes like, yet another case of trying ot shoot too far.  An arrow is not designed to be shot 100 yrds and kill a wild animal the size of an Elk or deer.  Anything past 50 should be with an MF. 

Man you must work for csi! How can you tell that from some simple photos!? I can tell from your avitar pic that that hog was shot at 1126 yards using a 300 win mag on the California coast. You were wearing Bermuda shorts, with a wife beater white tank on, and drinking. The shot was off hand and your blind in your right eye, but yet your shooting right handed!

Please keep your self imposed stupid, and idiotic comments to yourself wildsau until you know the facts.

Ps...I am sure you have NEVER made a bad shot or a bad hunting decision.

I don't know what got stuck in your Gludious-Maximus sideways, but you might want to have that taken care of.

I was making an observation and NOT stating a fact.  I read about bow shots out 100+ yards and ask myself, "Why shoot so far.?  Isn't the object to get as close as you can to ensure a good shot?"  If the shots were taken close enough, the arrows may have gone completly through the animal.  Why was this your shot?

Have I  ever made a bad shot?  Once, many years ago and it was because I pushed the shot - using MF and a powerful scope at the time.

I agree a bad shot can be made, once in a while, but if the shooter takes the time to ensure that they are as close as, physically, possible and ensure all is as it should be for a good shot, the chances of, needlessly, causing an animal to suffer are, greatly, reduced.

Also, it was my understanding that EVERYONE was entiteled to their own opinion, on here, regardless of what others think or feel.  Getting derogetory and instulting is NOT the idea of this site.

For you 'norrow minded' information, I don't use a 300, hunt in California or shoot more than 50 yars, with MF, or 30 yards Archery.  I don't like the noise, to walk any farther to retrieve my game than I have to, or places that are too warm.

Just for the record, I din't shoot THAT boar.  The last one I shot was in Germany and only weight in at 220lbs.

As for who I work for, all YOU need to know is I put in my time and get paid for it.  'Nuf said. 

[WAbowhntr]

Lookes like, yet another case of trying ot shoot too far.  An arrow is not designed to be shot 100 yrds and kill a wild animal the size of an Elk or deer.  Anything past 50 should be with an MF. 

Man you must work for csi! How can you tell that from some simple photos!? I can tell from your avitar pic that that hog was shot at 1126 yards using a 300 win mag on the California coast. You were wearing Bermuda shorts, with a wife beater white tank on, and drinking. The shot was off hand and your blind in your right eye, but yet your shooting right handed!

Please keep your self imposed stupid, and idiotic comments to yourself wildsau until you know the facts.

Ps...I am sure you have NEVER made a bad shot or a bad hunting decision.

Hahahahahahahaha! Spot on BuckMan.

[blacktailcody]

Lookes like, yet another case of trying ot shoot too far.  An arrow is not designed to be shot 100 yrds and kill a wild animal the size of an Elk or deer.  Anything past 50 should be with an MF. 

Man you must work for csi! How can you tell that from some simple photos!? I can tell from your avitar pic that that hog was shot at 1126 yards using a 300 win mag on the California coast. You were wearing Bermuda shorts, with a wife beater white tank on, and drinking. The shot was off hand and your blind in your right eye, but yet your shooting right handed!

Please keep your self imposed stupid, and idiotic comments to yourself wildsau until you know the facts.

Ps...I am sure you have NEVER made a bad shot or a bad hunting decision.

Hahahahahahahaha! Spot on BuckMan.

Amen to that. What do rifle hunters know.

[DOUBLELUNG]

I found an elk carcass while elk hunting several years ago that had a broadhead embedded in a clavicle.

It had a lump of stuff (solid - calcium???) growing around it.   

Sure it was an elk carcass?  Only big critters equipped with clavicles walking around our woods are human, and (maybe) Sasquatch.  Just giving you a hard time - maybe a scapula?

[tmike]

Here's one from a cow I shot several years ago. I still don't know how it got in there that way.

[Sliverslinger]

Those are some crazy pics!

[iRem]

That's crazy how tough these animals are! That's always my worry when archery hunting, that I make a mistake and pay for it as well as the animal! Practice, practice and practice some more!

[Giggles]

It's definitely not a Wasp broadhead; it would have exited!

[Hurricane]

Probably shooting a mathews also.     

[C-Money]

Wow! Thats something you dont see everyday.

[lokidog]

It's definitely not a Wasp broadhead; it would have exited!

Not sure it would have even hit it in the first place.....      

When I was a kid, a friend called my dad to see if he still had an archery tag.  Apparently he had a 5X5 WT tied to a tree.  We went and finished it off, while butchering, we discovered an old two-blade green broadhead that had healed up next to it's spine.  This was during the rut and apparently, this buck got hit by another which moved the BH about 1/4 inch and severed its spinal cord.

[hoyt2002]

While helping a friend that ran a butcher shop in OR we found several broadheads and bullets in game animals that week. He said it's very normal he had a 5 gallon bucket full of them outside.

[Bullkllr]

Did he mean gluteus maximus

[Wildsau]

Spelling is not one of my strong points, but I got my point across. 

Thank you for the correction.   

[sakoshooter]

Good ol NAP Thunderhead.

[NoImpactNoIdea]

Thats crazy.  Wonder how long it takes for bone to heal through an object like that.

[h2ofowlr]

Here's one from a cow I shot several years ago. I still don't know how it got in there that way.

Under pressure those blades do have some flex.  It forced it's way in at probably over 150 fps.