Whats in your deer? Slugs, arrows, or BBs

[posigian]

Saturday the 25th I went deep, deep, deep into the swamp where I know the big ones are hanging out. The best I came out with was a nice spike taken at 10:30 in the morning with my 12 ga at 10 yards. He dropped dead in his tracks. The shot went into his neck and out the left shoulder as he stood with a sharp quartering forward. Talk about a long & hard walk back out of there :(

Anyway, with the help of my Farther-in-law (Bob) we butchered him on Sunday. As Bob was working on the left rear leg he called me over to show me a broken bone. After looking some more....we found a 12ga slug in him. Now I have no reason to belive that slug is mine as this deer has been seen limping in the past. I never saw any other entry/exit holes except those decribed above. Again, I dont think this slug is mine and this is the strangest thing I have ever seen. And I have butchered my fair share of deer.

So what kind of things have you dug out of your deer before? I have heard stories of people loosing fingers due to broadheads being inside the deer during field dressing? Have you ever heard such stories?




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Posigian
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[Chuck]

I got a real nice 3yr old 8pt 3 years ago. I too cut up my own deer. I found in his hind quarters one buck shot pellet just under the hide and also a few steel bird shot pellets under the hide all in the rear end. That really pees me off. Who would shoot a deer with bird shot and in the rear end!!!???!!! It didnt look it had hurt the deer at all.

I also used to help a friend cut up deer. He used to find a few wierd things every year. He found slugs, rifle rounds, broad heads, shafts of arrows, and once a long stick the diameter of a arrow and about 8" long under the shoulder. It looked like maybe the deer ran into a branch and it pierced it under the shoulder. The other thing I learned while working there you should take 20 pounds off the estimated wieght from hunters. When ever we wieghed them hunters guesses were always off.

[Citori]

The first deer I harvested was a button buck ten years ago. As we skined it out we found ten or fifteen number six bird shot just under the skin.

[Steve]

Moving to whitetail forum.