I'd like to see a thread of recovered bullets. I know this is the medium bore forum but if you have any recovered "Small" or "Big Bore" bullets - I'd like to see them here as well.

Here is my contribution...the first I've ever been able to recover. Our own Bobby Tomek is a great inspiration for us to get good photos and check bullet performance if it stays inside the animal.

280 Remington
150 yards / 150lb hog
140gr Nosler Solid Base (Factory Federal load)
weighed 97.4 grains

140 grain Barnes X from 270 Weatherby, one from a river bank and one from a Gemsbok.

450-grain North Fork Solid from a .458 WM. Stopped by a vertebra in a cow elephant.

Recovered 400gr North Fork soft and cup point solid from my 404 Jeffery, animal was a Cape Buffalo. Soft was fired full broadside at 40 yds. The CPS was fired going away to my right at about 50 yards, it penetrated about half the body length and was found sitting in the bottom of the chest cavity.

37t Weatherby Mag, 300g Swift A-Frame from a brown bear at 13 yards. Bear was facing me diagonally, bullet entered his right front shoulder, destroyed the lungs and heart, ended up in the hide of left rear thigh, still weighed 299.5 grains. I still have it.

Excellent! Thanks for posting with photos.

Love the thread. I have not recovered any bullets to post. I need to hunt more!

458 Lott 450gr. Northfork cup point solids and one soft point recovered from two buffalo in Zimbabwe.

Here are three Lapua 9.3x62 Naturalis (monometal) bullets recovered from the Swedish moose I shot in 2014. I think they are 250 grain bullets.

And a 170 grain 7mm Remington Magnum PMP softpoint recovered from a nyala that was quartering away from me. (PMP is a South African brand, AFAIK)

Thank you everyone for contributing, lets keep this going!


Wow Chuck that is a giant bear!

All these Northforks look great recovered

Hannay - wow I like how those naturalis are all picture perfect expansion

Thanks, actually he was just shy of 9' squared but at 13 yards he looked really really big

180gn accubonds shot from a 300 mag. Shots were around 350 yards. Recovered from Gemsbok. I took a total of around 12 animals, springbok & gemsbok at ranges mostly 250 to 350 and these three are the only ones recovered. All animals one shot kills.

These photos are the same 180gn Woodleigh bullet (just different sides) from a 308Win. It was recovered from the off side back-strap of a sambar stag (not shot by me), after going through the on side of the spine. Distance was 150 yards

I have a lot of pictures of recovered bullets taken from game, and I have some mounted on a plaque or two..but unfortunately don't have the knowledge of posting them on AR, I can send them to interested parties email, that's the best I can do..

Ray if you email them to me I will try to get them put on here

Archerlee @ aol.com

I'll do that
Ray

Had a failure, so corrected it and forwarded the photos to you..let me know and thanks.
RAy

Contributions from Ray Atkinson

*These may be extremely large photos but had trouble getting them embedded*

Coyote with a 100gr Interlock in its nose.



Recovered bullet



This was a 268 yard neck shot with a .257 Weatherby Mag 100gr Hornady Interlock

the Lapua are impressive, Ive never used them, but will correct that problem for next year..Sure lots of great bullets out there today, wasn't always like that in my time, Thank you bullet makers!

300 grain TSX from (Left to right) Bushbuck, Gemsbok and Cape Buffalo.


235 grain (.375 H&H) Cutting Edge Extended Range Raptor bullet from a bushbuck at 200 meters

My 35 Whelen 225 grain Accubond recovered from my cow. Click to enlarge.

November 2020.
200 grain ELDx
300 WM, 3000 fps.
Recovered under the skin on the offside shoulder of a MT bull elk. 330 yards.
120 grains total weight.

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(THANKS FOR THE EMAIL/CONTRIBUTION!)

All from 7mm-08

Sierra 150gr Gameking recovered from red deer shot about 50m, angled from above down through shoulder stopping low down in opposite leg.


Hornady 139gr SST recovered from bull tahr shot about 200m through shoulders stopping under skin opposite side.

Those look great Eagle! The 7mm-08 is a favorite cartridge of mine. I'm also a fan of the Sierra Game King (Especially heavy for caliber)

The old HOrnady INterlock, is still a great bullet for deer, elk and PG..

Axis Doe
75 yards quartering away

Went in behind the last rib and through the off shoulder.
Stopped in the hide

Winchester Powerpoint 130gr
270 Winchester

6.5X54 MS
156 GR. S&B Factory Load
Whitetail doe at 100yds.

https://imgur.com/ZSJ3UvF

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the WW Power Point, WW silvertip, Rem corelokt, have never let me down as for "cup and core bullets", cheap and perform well...I can say the same for most speer bullets but have not used them all that much..

My favorites are Nosler Accubond and partitions, depending on caliber..Woodleighs and North Forks.

Im not great on monolithics, which puts me in the minority for sure...they seem to be the rage these days..

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Im not great on monolithics, which puts me in the minority for sure...they seem to be the rage these days..

Can say I have never shot game a mono core bullet.

In do have a few box's of Barnes for my 416 and well use them when I run out of 350gr grand slams.

That could be awhile.

These are my 510 grain Paper patched bullets for my .45/70. The 2 on the right are the only ones I have been able to capture in elk. Never had to take more than one shot on anything.

If I can find it again I will post it. But 140 grain Swift Scirrocco from a mule deer at 675 yards through the front shoulder. Recovered from just in front of opposite shoulder. 270 WSM and it weighed 127.5 grains and perfectly mushroomed. I was very impressed with the weight retention