22 bullet in deer burger?

[singleshot12]

  Frickin people why can't they do things right this is the second time I found a 22 bullet in my deer meat. Went to grind a couple pounds this morning for spagetti tonight and my grinder hit this. Anyways my question is do I have to worry about lead poisoning now? Who knows how long that deer carried a bullet. I hope I got all the little pieces removed after my grinder almost broke

[T Pearce]

You'll be ok.
Probably an acquaintance of ucwarden had something to do with this?
Glad your grinder made it ok.

[Dhoey07]

How do ya know it's a .22?

[Curly]

As we were skinning a deer my brother shot this year, we found what looked like a #4 buck pellet just inside the hide on one of the rear quarters.  We suspected that the deer was getting into the farmers garden a little too often.

[singleshot12]

How do ya know it's a .22?

Seemed to be the same weight but coulda been a 25 cal

[BULLBLASTER]

How do ya know it's a .22?

Seemed to be the same weight but coulda been a 25 cal

looks like it has a jacket? I think most 22 lr bullets are alll lead or plated lead id guess a centerfire if it has lead and jacket material.

[Dhoey07]

How do ya know it's a .22?

Seemed to be the same weight but coulda been a 25 cal

I was just thinking it might have been a fragment from a larger caliber. 

[Mike450r]

you should be able to tell pretty easily if it were from a rimfire .22 based on construction. 

[singleshot12]

you should be able to tell pretty easily if it were from a rimfire .22 based on construction.

Well the grinder hit it pretty hard,but one end has what looks like the parcial base of a 22 bullet.

Come to think of it over the years I've found lead shot in a cow elk and 177 cal pellets in two deer. Even found a bullet inside an antler that apparently was hit during velvet.

[Mtn.Ghost]

.22 Hornet or .17 HMR maybe even .223 - .243 they are all small cal. jacketed
Kinda looks larger than Rim fire in the pic

[Griiz]

Do you hunt near houses and their gardens and flower beds?

[splitshot]

  what unit was the deer harvested in?    mike w

[kodiak 907]

Found a bullet in the shoulder of my buck this year. .223 as far as I could tell from my measurements. Tough old buck

[singleshot12]

.22 Hornet or .17 HMR maybe even .223 - .243 they are all small cal. jacketed
Kinda looks larger than Rim fire in the pic

No there was no sign of a jacket..pretty sure it's .22 cal

[singleshot12]

Do you hunt near houses and their gardens and flower beds?

No but that doesn't mean the deer I hunt don't travel. The woods are surrounded by a few homes and there are a few bad apples around.

[singleshot12]

  what unit was the deer harvested in?    mike w

410 and it is my last year hunting it

[singleshot12]

Found a bullet in the shoulder of my buck this year. .223 as far as I could tell from my measurements. Tough old buck

Yep it's amazing what deer can survive

[BULLBLASTER]

Found a bullet in the shoulder of my buck this year. .223 as far as I could tell from my measurements. Tough old buck

Yep it's amazing what deer can survive

the buck I killed in 2010 had a 22 lr bullet lodged in the eyesocket behind the eye. theres a scar on the cape even.

[SeaRun1]

Sorry to see this.  We lost access to some property this year because the owners found a third dead deer poached on their property this year.  I am so sick of bad people.

SR1

[WARHORSE]

As far as lead poisoning you should be fine. I have had a . 177 cal. Pointed pellet in my back for almost 15 years now.  Doc said if it doesnt hurt it wont be a problem! 

[MtnMuley]

.........if you weren't so slow, it would have bounced off......

[WARHORSE]

Lol i was a totally unsuspecting victim!......the shooter however also fell victim to the same type of shot!

[MooseZ25]

Sorry about the bullet, but now all I can think about is spaghetti

[singleshot12]

lol,it was good spaghetti once I "got the lead out"

[singleshot12]

Sorry to see this.  We lost access to some property this year because the owners found a third dead deer poached on their property this year.  I am so sick of bad people.

SR1

   I keep hoping these poachers will get their Karma soon,very soon...they've thinned the deer herd down to where it's not worth hunting anymore.

[Firedogg]

Time to buy a used metal detector and scan all your meat before making spaghetti.

[steeleywhopper]

Found a pellet from a pellet gun resting on the heart of the buck I shot this year. I also found another pellet in his hind quarter. Must have been in someone's garden a bit too much.

[singleshot12]

Garden or not doesn't give anyone the right..just more idiots moving into the sticks.

[Firedogg]

I was serious about the detector, they can be gotten really cheap. Might save some uneeded dental work

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/ele/4798364999.html

[splitshot]

  I use a metal detector on trees before I saw them down.  nails, staples, barbwire, etc.  it saves on downtime,  money and a screwed up chain.   mike w

[Apples]

My kid shots his first buck last Saturday and gets it home for processing and when skinning we realize that there is shotgun pellets in its hind quarters any suggestions as how to deal with this issue for safe eating?

[Curly]

I found a .22 cal bullet while grinding burger this year. 

[WSU]

My elk last year had a 22 bullet in it.  At least, I think that's what it was.  It was hard to tell after my electric grinder hit it.  I dang near broke my wrist when the grinder tried to jump of the counter when the blade ground to an instant halt. 

[RadSav]

That must be awful course ground meat to allow that large of piece to go through.  When I worked as a meat cutter we would find a few bullets when we cleaned the grinder.  Tried really hard to find all bullet fragments before it went into the process.  But if something has been healed over it can easily be missed.  Our grinders would never allow that large a chunk get through.

One time we had a guy bring in a large 4x4 blacktail.  It had five .25 pistol bullets between the hid and the ribs.  Surprised anyone could hit a deer five shots in a row with a  25ACP   Poacher was obviously not too smart, but must have been a pretty good shot!

[The Weazle]

I was serious about the detector, they can be gotten really cheap. Might save some uneeded dental work

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/ele/4798364999.html

Will a metal detector detect lead?

[Curly]

Yes a detector should be able to detect lead. I watch the TV show diggers sometimes and they are often finding lead bullets.

[lokidog]

If you've pinched splitshot weights with your teeth, you probably injested more lead than you would eating ten deer with a bullet like that in it.   

[Lucky1]

My daughter shot a deer a couple years ago. My butcher found a 22 bullet and 2 lead pellets in it. We do live close to town. I think the deer was a pest and someone was trying to run it off.
The 22 bullet was hardly deformed. Probably a subsonic round.

[Curly]

Here's a pic of the 22 bullet that fell out of some deer or antelope meat when I was getting ready to grind some burger. I'm glad it fell out before it got in the grinder.