Recovered bullet pixs, lets see em!

[Rodd Boyer]

Notice the fabric weave impression. The ball had a good grip.

I noticed that as well. Blue striped pillow ticking. Good stuff!

 

[Newly O’Brian]

View attachment 359953.535 from a small buck at 35 yards. Dropped in his tracks.View attachment 359952

Dang, impressive energy transfer, nice!

 

[Spikebuck]

.54 cal Hornady Great Plains pushed by 90 gr T7 out of my Rocky Mountain Hawken. 89 yards. Bullet broke ribs on both sides and stopped under the hide on the far side. New bullet for comparison. It only shed a couple grains.

The only other I ever recovered was a .530 round ball that went through heavy shoulder and fragmented severely. A few dozen pass throughs with conicals and round balls.

Believe it or not, with his heart literally blown in half, that buck (aged at 7 1/2 YO by tooth cross section) made it from that field in the background about 40 yards up a steep hillside to the flat spot where he went down. Whitetails never cease to amaze me.

 

[Newly O’Brian]

Good gads, that's impressive

 

[Ditt44]

.50 Round ball.
25 yard shot, in behind the left shoulder breaking a rib. Found under the skin after busting through the right shoulder.
*edit: lost 1.... One grain weight.

 

[roundballman]

395 ball on left recovered under skin on far side of nice doe. 65 grs 3f at 40 yds,
Heart-lung shot

530 ball recovered from skin under far side shoulder, spike bull elk, 125 grs 2f,
90 yds

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[Newly O’Brian]

.50 Round ball.
25 yard shot, in behind the left shoulder breaking a rib. Found under the skin after busting through the right shoulder.
*edit: lost 1.... One grain weight.

Holy cow

 

[Newly O’Brian]

395 ball on left recovered under skin on far side of nice doe. 65 grs 3f at 40 yds,
Heart-lung shot

530 ball recovered from skin under far side shoulder, spike bull elk, 125 grs 2f,
90 yds
View attachment 3602160

Nice!

 

[Nuthatch]

Out here in CA, we have to use lead free balls. So I cast bismuth alloy and they behave just like hardcast lead -- all punch and no expansion. I've recovered only one and it looked exactly the same as when it went in, maybe with a scratch or two. Hardly worth sharing a photo. I just pitched it back into the melting pot.

From the Thor bullets, I recovered one from a buck shot at close range (<10 yards). It was a perfect mushroom, typical of Barnes (who makes the Thor bullet). The other was a longer shot, about 70-80 yards, and it zipped right through with no discernable expansion & I didn't recover that bullet.

 

[TTT]

.50 cal hand cast .490 roundball. White tail buck 20 yard shot, 80 gr. Of 3F Swiss. Full weight retention and doubled in size. Just under hide of farside shoulder

 

[Newly O’Brian]

.50 cal hand cast .490 roundball. White tail buck 20 yard shot, 80 gr. Of 3F Swiss. Full weight retention and doubled in size. Just under hide of farside shoulder

Whoah, someone's shoulder is going to hurt in morning!

 

[Phil Coffins]

A couple from my collection, and there’s people that still believe they need a slug for deer.
IMG_0759 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[Oregononeshot]

535 round ball recovered on the opposite hide of a cow elk shot at 75 yards. Didn’t really expand like I thought it would, just kinda flattened out. Less than a grain of weight loss

 

[Andrewmtnman]

.440 60gr fff, she was around 45 yards and she went another 20 or so. She didn’t bleed much at all but both lungs were gone. I could feel the rb through the hide on the other side. After reading your post I went into the garage to find and dig the ball out of the hide. It didn’t flatten to much.

 

[Newly O’Brian]

.440 60gr fff, she was around 45 yards and she went another 20 or so. She didn’t bleed much at all but both lungs were gone. I could feel the rb through the hide on the other side. After reading your post I went into the garage to find and dig the ball out of the hide. It didn’t flatten to much.

Way COOL!

 

[Joe L]

.440 round ball with 75 grains 3f at a doe, about 40 yard shot quartering to. Entered in front of right shoulder, stopped under skin on left side mid-ribs. There was blood on the left side so it must have just cut the skin. She ran about 50 yards with a pretty good blood trail.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Only one (ball or bullet) I have ever recovered from a deer with ANY rifle (modern or primative). .50 (0.490") pushed by 90 gr FFg that was only slightly out of round. Frontal shot from 10 yards and the ball was just under the skin on the rear thigh of a whitetail buck. It tunneled between the skin and muscle once past the abdomen. About 36" of penetration (only clipped the sternum). Neat that the lube was uncompressable (Stumpy's Moose Snot) and pressed the patch pattern into the lead).

Back story is I usually prefer broadside double-lung just behind shoulder and foreleg. But it was 10 degrees below zero F and I just wanted to get done and get home. Felt like sticking my hands in boiling water when I field dressed the buck.

Also interesting: this was the only rifle (m/l or centerfire) deer I have shot that collapsed without moving it's hind legs. Reared up a bit with the forelegs then and went down in a heap. I've had 12 gauge slug deer drop, but not with rifles. Could just be me. They don't go far in any case.

 

[morehops52]

50 cal 370g Maxi. They do deform when you hiy bone.