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Title: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Pazn25 on November 15, 2009, 11:50:58 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: markts on November 15, 2009, 11:55:14 AM: No pics :bash: We found a 17cal mushroomed out bullet in my cousins elk. Right in the neck. Mark
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Post by: gasman on November 15, 2009, 11:55:56 AM: Never found anything, but would be cool to see pic.
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Post by: agchawk on November 15, 2009, 12:02:02 PM: I found a .22 round in the hind quarters of the whitetail I harvested last year. Some A-hole had apparently plunked the buck with a .22 at least a year prior. Probably some freakin' poacher or kids out shooting $hit for the hell of it. Either way, it actually got me a little upset just thinkin' about it.
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Post by: CoryTDF on November 15, 2009, 12:05:28 PM: Found about 25 shotgun pellets in the backsttrap of a mule deer my dad shot a few years ago. >:( It had to be the backstrap. It sucks that it happend at all but i was really pissed that the best part of the deer was litterd with lead pellets. I would love to have a chat with the idiot who shot that deer.
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Post by: runningboard on November 15, 2009, 12:18:55 PM: found a .38 slug under the hide in the back lower leg of a buck I got a few years ago. wasn't healed yet I thought maybe he had a tick or something and kept biting at it and caused the wound himself but when skinning I found the slug and measured it. It had hit just below the knee and tumbled without breaking anything.
a friend got a buck with a .22 slug in the base of an antler a few years back.
my butcher friend tells of finding broadheads, arrows, in lots of animals.
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Post by: twisp_river_slayer on November 15, 2009, 12:27:13 PM: for two years straight both my deer and my dads had bird shot in the meat and under the hide. All four deer were killed in the same spot. We went and talked to the nearest house from where we hunt and the guy told us he was shooting them for getting into his garden. He never shot any more after our talk.
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Post by: robb92 on November 15, 2009, 12:35:16 PM: Found a 22 bullet stuck to the rib of a doe I shot a couple of years ago, the bullet didn't break the rib was just stuck there and had a membrane that had grown around it.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on November 15, 2009, 12:47:35 PM: I had a friend that shot a bear with an arrow on Long Island, did not recover bear, the next year shot another bear in the same area, guess what? when they butchered it had his arrow still in it from the previous year all healed up around it.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on November 15, 2009, 01:26:11 PM: Never any arrows, but was helpin pack out a bull a couple years back that had 2 muzzleloader balls behind the shoulder. Shot a buck in late archery that had a large bullet hole in the ham, the wound was infected and stinking. I lost some meat but glad he didnt suffer to long.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 15, 2009, 01:32:34 PM: i have found deer that have been shot in the past never a full bullet but a few little pieces off of the bullet, one of my friends shot a 6x6 bull that had about 2" of alum shaft and a old thunder head 125 stuck in the shoulder.
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Post by: KillerMiller on November 15, 2009, 01:34:24 PM: While skinning a buck I had taken during late archery found 6 shot peppered under the skin and in some of the front shoulder meat. :)
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Post by: turkey buster on November 15, 2009, 01:47:12 PM: I have found numerous 22 bullets in the breast meat of turkeys I have killed
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Post by: Blsum on November 15, 2009, 01:49:03 PM: I've never found anything. I remember in high school my shop teacher brought in the head of the 2 pnt BT he shot that had a broadhead half way through the nose. The deer must of broken the arrow shaft. cause it was all healed over.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: jdb on November 15, 2009, 01:50:25 PM: I knocked the head of a grouse last year with my .22 rifle and when I got home and skinned the bird out he had #6 shot under the hide
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: SuperX on November 15, 2009, 02:05:54 PM: I found a pellet from a pellet gun in the haunch of my urban blacktail. I found shotgun slug fragments in the backstrap and under the skin of my bear, and I once shot a whitetail who had an inch of wood from a sharp branch in his backstrap.

In each case the wound was fully healed and there was no sign of injury visually or in the behavior of the animal. There were a dozen blond hairs in the bear where the shotgun slug entered its back, but you couldn't really see them against the chocolate brown of the coat.
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Post by: dewandgin on November 15, 2009, 02:54:08 PM: I shot a cow elk with a collar on her and after getting her home and starting to cut up the meat found the tranquilizer dart in her hide quarter. Still have it saved thought it was kinda cool. :P
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: huntmando on November 15, 2009, 03:26:39 PM: The bull I shot last year had just the broad head in it from the previous year.
It was in the front shoulder with a baseball size pocket of scar tissue around it.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: lokidog on November 15, 2009, 03:51:12 PM: When I was a kid in WI, a friend called and asked my dad if he still had an archery tag as this guy had a buck tied to a tree. Back end was paralyzed, found an old green broadhead through its spine. It looked like it had gone in and stopped within 1/16 inch of the spine and was all healed up. We figured this guy got in a fight with another buck and just got hit in the wrong place.

First elk had an 'X' scar through his back leg, all healed nicely.

Margaret bull had a 3/4 inch hole in its skull under its antler, all healed up. One of my other elk racks had a brow tine that fit the hole perfectly. Of course my "friends" said the bull was probably deaf and blind on that side and walked with a limp, no wonder I was able to get him....
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: remington300mag on November 15, 2009, 04:01:55 PM: A few years back I shot a spike in the Clockum....while using an elk cart to get it to the road i noticed it's right front leg was way bigger than it's left....when we got it back to camp and started skinning it.....I was surprised to find that the leg had about 3 inches of an arrow sticking out of it with the broad head still stuck in the bone.....can you say Gange Green!!!!! Worst smell I have ever smelled....with a sour cream looking green puss running down the leg.....It was horrible!!! We cut the leg off about 8 inches above the bad part.....Yep still ate the elk...and it was good....and dug the broad head out after a night of drinking!! LOL Still have the broad head somewhere!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Huntbear on November 15, 2009, 04:05:33 PM: My brother and I shot a big cow in the Washougal Unit one year, she was moving fine before she went down. However, when we went to butcher her, noticed one whole shoulder was nothing but gristle and scar tissue. No noticeable meat on it anywhere.
Did not find any foreign objects, so figured she had been hit by a truck or something when young. :dunno:
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Post by: LRshooter on November 15, 2009, 04:22:47 PM: I found #8 or so bird shot in the hind quarter of my muley this year.
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Post by: mossback91 on November 15, 2009, 04:38:13 PM: Never found much but my own bullets or what not.........Dad found a 243 bullet lodged in the the shoulder of a muley buck......... perfect mushroom but just up against the shoulder.....didnt even break it........I'm guessing somebody took too long of a shot :dunno:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: billythekidrock on November 15, 2009, 04:44:20 PM: I found this broken tine a few years ago in the hindquarter of a bull I killed.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2FwebP10006751.jpg&hash=66d1a8cace7e2bf8317b265f72149be78c899fe6)

We have found a couple broad heads encapsulated in grisle as well as more then a few deer with rounds in the neck.

If you hunt in an area where there are poachers or tribal hunters you will find many deer with .22 caliber rounds in the neck area. We used to find that rather frequently.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: SunniCutt on November 15, 2009, 04:59:43 PM: Found 1 22 cal bullet and some more lead with my meat grinder last year. Made my grinder run really hot.
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Post by: Slayock on November 15, 2009, 05:27:39 PM: I found a broken tine in the front shoulder of a muley buck a few years ago, it was about 4 inches long.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 15, 2009, 05:30:47 PM: billy that is a cool pic thanks for sharin
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Post by: Blacktail135 on November 15, 2009, 06:20:45 PM: Found a broadhead in the backstrap of a 6x7 elk in '05 and a broadhead in the shoulder of a blacktail deer I shot in '03. '06 sheep had a big, knarled scar and a piece of backbone missing I assume was from a bullet. I couldn't find the 4th blade of the broadhead on the elk so I tossed about 4" of the backstrap.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Bigshooter on November 15, 2009, 07:34:41 PM: Four or five years ago a buddies dad shot a nice big old bull. It had a broadhead in one shoulder, and broadhead in its back straps. And 2 bullets in one of the hind quarters. All were healed.

A couple years ago another buddy shot a buck that had a .22 bullet in its front shoulder.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: becker on November 15, 2009, 08:03:23 PM: Found my brother digging around in my freezer looking for prime cuts of deer steak.

Does that count?
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: ICEMAN on November 15, 2009, 08:09:44 PM: Quote from: Bigshooter on November 15, 2009, 07:34:41 PM
Four or five years ago a buddies dad shot a nice big old bull. It had a broadhead in one shoulder, and broadhead in its back straps. And 2 bullets in one of the hind quarters. All were healed.

A couple years ago another buddy shot a buck that had a .22 bullet in its front shoulder.

Good god, no wonder many of these bulls hide come hunting season...
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Axle on November 15, 2009, 08:17:47 PM: My neighbor shot a nice 3 point BT buck that had at least two pellets in it. Probably shot from a pellet rifle. I would love to shoot those pellets into the idiot that shot them into the deer.

If they don't want deer in their yards, then the idiots need to move back to the city where they belong.

God bless blacktail deer!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Tikka Bird Dog on November 16, 2009, 06:56:54 AM: "lewy's" bull from last year had about 12 inches of arrow stuck right between its shoulder blades. the whole elk was festered and we got no meat off of about a 800 hundred pound animal! :bash: looked like the bull had been shot from a tree stand around a month or so earliar! it sucked to lose all that meat, but lewy put that bull out of its misery for sure!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on November 16, 2009, 07:06:24 AM: Found 7 1/2s, 6s AND 2s in a 5x7 whitetail a friend shot. He was an alfalfa junkie ... that farmer hated whitetails ...
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Hornseeker on November 16, 2009, 07:18:03 AM: I cant believe all the guys that have got bird shot in their bucks! WTF???

SO, in 1978 my dad killed a nice black bear in Oak Creek... when they gutted him out, there was a mass on the side of his heart... grissly stuff... they cut into it and found a broadhead! Man...there weren't even many bow hunters back then...what a coincidink....

I have heard a couple tales of big old bulls having multiple projectiles in them, like mentioned above!!!
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Post by: Woodchuck on November 16, 2009, 07:45:42 AM: my old man killed a speed goat in wyoming several years ago that had a .338 bullet just under the hide in a hind quarter, all healed over, who shoots speed goats with a .338?
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: lokidog on November 16, 2009, 09:21:43 AM: Quote from: JIMKD8 on November 16, 2009, 07:45:42 AM
who shoots speed goats with a .338?

Apparently someone with poor aim... :chuckle:

Quote from: becker on November 15, 2009, 08:03:23 PM
Found my brother digging around in my freezer looking for prime cuts of deer steak.

Does that count?

I think that kind of poaching should be dealt with by extreme prejudice.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Yak-NDN on November 16, 2009, 09:35:34 AM: I have found several myself bullets 22cal to 30cal and one arrow up under the back bone looked like they were taking an ass shot and lodged it in under the back bone.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: popeshawnpaul on November 16, 2009, 09:35:54 AM: My first deer was ancient old and a nice big muley. His front knee was twice the size of normal and had a huge lead ball on it that had become encapsulated and healed. He must have had a limp. Also, in the same deer, he had a .22 or small caliber bullet in his backbone and it was resting against the spine. He also had a larger slug in his front shoulder. I have the rounds for each of these at home and should take a picture of the huge lead ball from the muzzle slug.
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Post by: LongTatLaw on November 16, 2009, 09:43:28 AM: Ive killed several GA deer with 22 bullets in the meat...or just under the skin!

Ive killed probably half a dozen bigger hogs with broadheads stuck in their skin...hogs have a tough hardened plate of cartilage around the front shoulders...tough situation for a bow hunter...

This years mule deer killed in Oregon had a bb gun pellet in the hind quarter..maybe more..wait til I finish it :dunno:

and the worst news.... my elk this year had a strange chemical smell to it immediately upon walk up... no meat seemed rancid... but it was a STRONG odor... nothing like Ive ever smelled before but Im no expert...

I took the head to show bucklucky and he said the same thing..started sniffing the meat...picking it up...smelling the femer bone..ect he said he had never smelled anything like it :yike: :bdid: a damn elk taxidermist thats confused...

:bash:

Catwithboost cam over...not to help me pack it out...*censored*... but to cut up the meat...and he is the biggest meat whore Ive ever seen... he took not one pound of the offered meat!

I did give away plenty... probably have 100 lbs left..still havent had the eggs to try it...

guess I should..even frozen in the freezer it stinks :bash: :'( :'(
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: saylean on November 16, 2009, 09:45:33 AM: Eastern or Western wa?
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Post by: LongTatLaw on November 16, 2009, 09:46:30 AM: Western..

why

ya gonna be my test dummy :P
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Post by: hogsniper on November 16, 2009, 09:48:33 AM: Ah hell just cook it an extra minute an dive in! Dont be scared Dave!!!
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Post by: mossback91 on November 16, 2009, 09:51:28 AM: dude LTL since when have you beena fraid to eat something?!?!
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Post by: bowtech721 on November 16, 2009, 10:26:14 AM: A buddy of mine killed a 2 pt bt with a half and arrow with a field point on it!
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Post by: SkookumHntr on November 16, 2009, 10:29:28 AM: -My Bull had a muzzy broadhead stuck in the shoulder
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: saylean on November 16, 2009, 10:32:00 AM: Quote from: LongTatLaw on November 16, 2009, 09:46:30 AM
Western..

why

ya gonna be my test dummy :P

I ment for the elk the poster had talked about. I lost an elk last year ;(, eastern archery and was wondering where he got it. ;)
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Post by: Curly on November 16, 2009, 10:42:27 AM: Quote from: mossback91 on November 16, 2009, 09:51:28 AM
dude LTL since when have you beena fraid to eat something?!?!
:chuckle: :lol4:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: C-Money on November 16, 2009, 10:54:57 AM: Skinned a buck with my friend and found 6'' of shaft with a broadhead attached in the backstrap. Lots of puss. Nasty. Also know a guy that drew a tag for a buffalo and found a mushroomed out roundball stuck in the Buffalo's head.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Axle on November 16, 2009, 11:14:02 AM: Found a two inch long stick about 1 inch in diameter in an elk taken in Oregon. Didn't surprise me, I had to pull sticks out of my leg on occasion too. I learned not to fall on logs or trip over them. That was in the desolation unit.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: fishm@n on November 16, 2009, 11:19:50 AM: Chalk it up to idiots and also bad shots happen but keep it to yourself. This is a public forum and the anti hunting freaks don't need anymore ammo. My :twocents:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Hillbilly270 on November 16, 2009, 11:22:32 AM: Quote from: C-Money on November 16, 2009, 10:54:57 AM
Skinned a buck with my friend and found 6'' of shaft with a broadhead attached in the backstrap. Lots of puss. Nasty. Also know a guy that drew a tag for a buffalo and found a mushroomed out roundball stuck in the Buffalo's head.

was i the only one who had to read the second sentence of this post twice? i had to laugh at myself when i figured it out. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Curly on November 16, 2009, 11:26:21 AM: I'm not following you Hillbilly270.
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Post by: Hillbilly270 on November 16, 2009, 11:30:39 AM: must just be me. :dunno:
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Post by: ICEMAN on November 16, 2009, 07:35:21 PM: Quote from: Hillbilly270 on November 16, 2009, 11:30:39 AM
must just be me. :dunno:

Not just you...
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: finnman on November 16, 2009, 07:39:13 PM: My brother and I were quartering up a spike bull in the Northside unit in Oregon, we were working on the front shoulder and smelled something foul, we found a 6 inch long 1 inch diameter stick inside the front chest cavity laying right up tight to the ribs. It was completely white from being attacked by the elks defense system. We cut away the neck and shoulder meat till it did not stink.
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Post by: Woodchuck on November 16, 2009, 07:39:34 PM: ice is right, not just you
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Post by: Pazn25 on November 16, 2009, 08:19:20 PM: SALEAN: western
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Post by: 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. It was completley grown over, we cut into it when we cut out the antlers! Crazy he was still walking.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: wannahunt on November 16, 2009, 08:39:44 PM: The buck I shot last year had been shot in the back of the neck and out the front probably the year before since it was healed over but the exit wound must have been 5 or 6 inches in diameter. Sure didn't look like a shot that a deer would recover from but he did. Had to buy a new cape to get him mounted.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: billythekidrock on November 17, 2009, 06:06:46 AM: Quote from: wannahunt on November 16, 2009, 08:39:44 PM
The buck I shot last year had been shot in the back of the neck and out the front probably the year before since it was healed over but the exit wound must have been 5 or 6 inches in diameter. Sure didn't look like a shot that a deer would recover from but he did. Had to buy a new cape to get him mounted.

Why buy a new cape? The scar was part of his character.
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Post by: lewy on November 17, 2009, 06:37:55 AM: Found this in my 08 bull, 12 inches long with a muzzy 4 blade......
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Post by: RockChuck on November 17, 2009, 03:35:21 PM: I am shocked that so many animals have been shot with 22s what are people thinking? also why so many shots in the backstrap?
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: the1rod on November 17, 2009, 05:15:32 PM: last year a friend of mine shot a nice blacktail out of my pasture, perfect shot right through the heart. when we got up tp it we found it had an nasty infected hole all the way through it, top to bottom like it had been shot from a tree stand.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: singleshot12 on November 17, 2009, 05:24:45 PM: Cow elk with about 50 lead no. 6 shot bb's in her hind quarters.
And a 177 cal. pellet in the ass of a 3 point blacktail.
Also found a blacktail shed with a 22 cal. bullet embedded in the antler.
After reading all these similar stories it confirms my belief that there are alot of *censored*heads out there >:(
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: buckreaper on November 18, 2009, 08:58:59 PM: Friend of mine shot a 3-point buck in the Snake River breaks that had a broadhead stuck in the base of the left horn about an inch above the hairline. It penetrated all the way, just poking thru the other side. He was really bummed about it until we all said how unique and rare it was.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Axle on November 18, 2009, 09:57:36 PM: Quote
After reading all these similar stories it confirms my belief that there are alot of *censored*heads out there

No kidding! My thoughts too. We are the top managers in this world (as established by God). Responsibility is a key issue here and it looks like there are a lot of irresponsible idiots.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: gutsnthegrass on November 19, 2009, 11:48:12 AM: I shot a 4 point mulie in the Entiat in 03 during the late hunt that had 8 inches of shaft and a rocket broadhead in the guts. Looked like somebody took an ass shot >:(. I noticed he had a bit of a limp but never would have thought he had an arrow in him. When I started skinning him out he smelled horrible and the joints were all yellow. I wasn't able to eat him but was able to keep the head. He is my biggest to date but always wondered if he was healthy, would I still have been able to pull it off.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: RedBul on November 20, 2009, 08:54:06 PM: Found a broadhead in my N.E. Wa. 7x8 Bull this year in the backstrap. Shot was taken quartering to the front. Not a very ethical shot.... You know who you are! :bash: Had to have been in there at least 3 weeks. He was shot during muzzleloader season. I probably saved him from a long winter. More on him later...
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: BUCK SHOT on November 20, 2009, 09:09:43 PM: Hmmm...I also found an arrow with 7" shaft in my N.E. wa elk this year...it too was a fresh wound-no scar tissue or puss around the area. I don't know much about arrows but a buddy says it looks like a crossbow bolt.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: sporked horn on November 21, 2009, 09:43:14 PM: The lack of ethics of some people is simply amazing. I've only been archery hunting 3 years but each year have been presented with questionable shots on decent bulls, and passed each time. A 5x5 quartering to at 15 yrds no shot. A 6x7 facing me at 35 yrds no shot. A 6x6 broadside but his vitals were covered with brush no shot. I've had people tell me I should take those shots, they would. But they also talk about tracking a elk for 200 yrds that was "double lunged". I have yet to kill an elk, and it's frustrating sometimes, but part of the rush is the anticapation. People with poor ethics and judgment in the woods just burn me up.

Dan
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: letmhunt on November 21, 2009, 10:34:22 PM: I found a two blade stinger broadhead in my elk this year. Oh! wait im sorry that would be my own broadhead! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on November 22, 2009, 08:18:19 AM: I hear ya Sporked Horn! I have been archery hunting for 15 yrs. I have had tag soup more then not. I passed on a Lead Cow just last year. My partner asked Y! It was about 5 to 10 yrds further then I was comfortable with....totaly broadside! Did'nt take the shot! "Tag Soup" But slep like a baby
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: boneaddict on November 22, 2009, 08:24:44 AM: Found a 30 caliber in the ass of my AK moose and an arrow busted off in the ass of my NM elk. I sure HATE people who can't make good shots and wing lead or arrows, or think they are qualified to make certain shots.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: NWBREW on November 22, 2009, 08:47:15 AM: My dad shot a big bear back in the 80's that had a broadhead in the shoulder blade. Shot with the arrow was from the previous year, also had been shot in the ass with some sort of rifle a few months earlier.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: elkrack on November 24, 2009, 09:55:57 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Dipsnort on November 25, 2009, 12:10:32 PM: 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! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Axle on November 25, 2009, 05:01:24 PM: Quote
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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Birdguy on November 25, 2009, 07:08:33 PM: 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 :dunno:. I know I certainly will be more careful as gut and skin animals in the future.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: lokidog on November 25, 2009, 07:46:34 PM: Quote from: Birdguy on November 25, 2009, 07:08:33 PM
I know I certainly will be more careful as gut and skin animals in the future.

Good point!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: cascademountainhunter on November 25, 2009, 07:53:35 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: antlerbolic_bearoids on November 25, 2009, 08:10:55 PM: 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. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: hirshey on November 25, 2009, 08:31:33 PM: Quote from: Pazn25 on November 15, 2009, 11:50:58 AM
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!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: bearpaw on November 25, 2009, 08:41:00 PM: 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..... :twocents:
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: mad-bomber on November 26, 2009, 09:49:22 PM: my uncle shot a elk that had 5 muzzleLoader sabbots in the rear quaters.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on November 27, 2009, 07:20:11 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 28, 2009, 05:59:05 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: hirshey on December 18, 2009, 03:35:05 PM: 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. :(

Quote from: h2ofowlr on November 28, 2009, 05:59:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: sisu on December 18, 2009, 03:36:57 PM: I've dug out parasites at times and cysts, but no bullets or arrows.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: Redmist on December 18, 2009, 11:34:46 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: lokidog on December 19, 2009, 10:05:20 AM: Found this hole in the skull of my elk a few years ago. Nothing left in it but looks like a brow tine from another bull entered, pulled out, and then healed over. It is amazing what they can survive!
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: steeleywhopper on December 20, 2009, 01:30:27 AM: found this against the ribs in my bull this year.
Anyone have any archery buddies who are still having nightmares about the nile unit?
Title: Re: Found a little Suprise in my Elk meat
Post by: h2ofowlr on December 27, 2009, 05:35:05 PM: Nice bull. I am sure someone has been kicking themselves for loosing that one.