Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat

[elkrack]

my uncle shot a spike that had a thunder head broad head in the lower back leg and the bone had grown completly around it.his good leg was way bigger than the shot one.

[Dipsnort]

First deer I shot when I was 10 there was a fully intact broadhead in his skoal and halfway in his brain.

BS, everyone knows deer use Copenhagen!

[Axle]

Quote from: Chewack Slayer on November 16, 2009, 08:22:40 PM
First deer I shot when I was 10 there was a fully intact broadhead in his skoal and halfway in his brain.

BS, everyone knows deer use Copenhagen!

Yep, thought I heard a snort when I was hunting......or was it a snuff? It was a chew of some sort anyway.

[Birdguy]

Found a small caliber bullet in the hind leg of a deer I shot in 07 in Okanogan.

Reading these posts really makes me wonder how many of these injuries are the result of poachers . Poachers hunt all year round with all weapons. I would guess there are a many animals shot or shot at with archery gear as rifles, due to the lack of of sound but I am amazed by the numbers of animals reported here on this thread with foreign objects in them . I know I certainly will be more careful as gut and skin animals in the future.

[lokidog]

I know I certainly will be more careful as gut and skin animals in the future.

Good point!

[cascademountainhunter]

i found a 22 bullet in a piece of my deer jerkey last year. im lucky i didnt break my teeth. and found a bullet in my dads antelope, forget what part of the body it was in though and it wasnt from my dad.

[antlerbolic_bearoids]

My first cow elk I shot when I was 11 had a mushroomed 30 cal. bullet just under the hide, it didn't pierce meat at all.  The buck I shot in Montana two weeks ago had two rounds of copper coated bird shot (no. 4's I believe) freshly sprayed up it's side.  I'm thinking either the day before or that night.  They were so fresh that the shot marks sprayed up it's side were the first thing I noticed when I walked up on it.  Besides it's rack!  I quartered the "shot gunned" side first, flipped him over and started in on the second side, just under the hide right behind the shoulder was an old .22 bullet.  When I boned out the hind quarter three days later, there was another .22 round just above the left back knee joint.  He was a survivor, until he heard the bark of my .280. 

[hirshey]

So as I was at my uncles house butchering up my elk we cut up he two hind quarters, all is well.  Great meat!!  Next we go to the front right shoulder.  As we are butchering it up we notice a lump in a portion of the meat.  We proceeded to dig into the meat and noticed the shaft of an arrow about 4 inches long.  Then we cut down to the shoulder blade and noticed another part of the shaft.  About another 4 inches long.  This part went int the bone and the bone actually grew around it.  There was a hollow hole in the bone where we had pulled it out.  Never found the arrow, poor guy had a rough last year or so.  Just thought I would throw this out to you guys.  Has anyone every came across anything like this?  I know me and my dad shot a deer 12 years ago that had the actual arrow in the bone.  we boiled the bone and got all the pieces out and saved it.  Lets hear what you all have to say. 

Both of my parents had what we called the "humane hunting year" last year... both their muzzleloader deer had previous injuries they had overcome from prior seasons. First, we butchered my mothers... and hers had a tendon that had been completely ripped from the bone and had reattached itself to a portion of the shoulder meat. (not quite as steady as a bone, I presume, but it hadn't appeared to hinder the deer before my mother's shot) Next, came my father's deer.. and similarly to your story, some of the shoulder meat was scarred; with a little more digging we found (and still have) the head and portion of the shaft of the arrow about 2 inches long. The muscle tissue had scarred and hardened around it! Isn't it amazing what those animals can (and unfortunatly have to sometimes) endure? Pretty impressive. I have to wonder if I could be half as tough!

[bearpaw]

Through the years we have found about everything in animals, broadheads, .22 bullets, bigger caliber bullets, but the most common thing has been bear with birdshot. Almost every year or two we get bear that have been shot with birdshot. Not sure if it's homeowners or grouse hunters.....

[mad-bomber]

my uncle shot a elk that had 5 muzzleLoader sabbots in the rear quaters.

[Wanttohuntmore]

I've shot numerous deer that have had sticks healed over, shoved up into their lower legs.  Usually less than 1/4" diameter.  My first and only elk, a 4x5, had a healed over "ball" of bone in its leg.  It had an infection in that area, stunk horribly, but seemed to walk fine.  We found some jacket and lead in that area.  Also found some nasty, crawly things in a bear I took as well.  Freaked me out.

I think a bunch of the 22 bullets in the elk you find are from ranchers or homeowners trying to keep elk out of their yards/pastures.  I've heard of ranchers shooting at them when they were busting their fences, using a 22.  They usually get some management tags from the wdfw, and are allowed to shoot and kill the elk.  But they then need to gut and skin the elk, call the wdfw, and the wdfw picks it up.  So instead of doing it that way they just use the 22.  Pisses me off.  The biggest reason we do not have more elk is wintering areas, which is where all these ranches/suburbs are located. 

[h2ofowlr]

My buddies bull had a shaft up it's snout.  When he boiled the skull the broad head had stopped just short of it's tear duc.  the shaft was broken off flush at the end of the nose.  That must have been a head ace.

[hirshey]

Looks like there'll be another one of those running around in the Margeret unit this year... had an archer bragging about missing over the back of his intended cow and hitting one behind it in the face. Said he saw it numerous days in a row after that, still running with the herd.

My buddies bull had a shaft up it's snout.  When he boiled the skull the broad head had stopped just short of it's tear duc.  the shaft was broken off flush at the end of the nose.  That must have been a head ace.

[sisu]

I've dug out parasites at times and cysts, but no bullets or arrows.

[Redmist]

Was eating dinner at the ranch with my family when I was about 5 years old.  Dad suddenly jumped up and spit a round projectile down onto his plate with a metallic clank and glared at me over the top of his glasses.  That was the last time I practiced hunting in the Chicken Coop with my Daisy BB gun.