My wife found a .308,180 gr Winchester XP3 bullet in our elk roast tonight. She at first told me it was a bolt but after we cleaned it up I weighed and measured it. 100% weight retention and four pedals just like the pics. I know its not a Barnes because there's a cap similar to a primer looking thing on the base and a bulge about mid bullet. Weird but true. Anyone else find something like it in your meat.I was using .338 200 gr Nosler Accubonds so it not mine.

Which part of the elk was the roast from?
Once I found some bullet fragments in the rear ham of a deer while I was skinning it. The whole mass was surrounded by a grisle like substance I assumed was scar tissue. This seemed to be a varmint bullet as it didn't penetrate very deep and was a small "pocket" of lead and copper tiny fragments maybe 2-3 inches under the skin..

I have found 6" of arrow healed up in deer 3 times and many healed in .22 bullets. PA deer had the most .22 bullets in them.

found a completely flattened .50 cal saboted lead slug under the hide on the neck of a cow elk a few years ago. there was a tit on the back of the lead to hold the sabot on, and .50 stamped on it.
it was encased in gristle, also. the weird thing was it was just under the skin and fully mushroomed, with the butt end facing out. so, unless it traveled through the neck and turned around, i'm not real sure how it got under the skin.

I can't say for sure what part of the elk it came from but it was a large roast so I'll guess the ham area. Strange that it didn't penetrate through. He was bedded when we saw him with another bull standing by him about 700 yds away we worked our way through the oak brush until we made the shots both elk down. I was the second to shoot and he did get up and run but not far.The recovered bullet is from this year no grisel just some hair around it.

When I ran my bear camp in N.MN. almost every bear had bird shot under the hide, it was so common I didn't even mention it most of the time when I was skinning. I have found a couple of bullets over the years, mostly from deer my Dad killed with his 30-30, once it was just as you described,except at the table when my mother was carving the roast!!

Hey Rob
any chance in all the excitement your buddy put a slug in your elk too?
any chance you had an odd bullet in your box?
If none of the above someone else had obviously got one in your bull before you did.

Snellstorm, Not from either of us as my buddy was using a 280 Rem with 154 gr IBs. We were the last two bull permits on the ranch so others had hunted the area earlier. Someone had put one in him but must not have slowed him down. I'm going to the same ranch (Craig) this year for a cow hunt I'll ask around and see.

I found a 250gr Nosler Partition right in the middle of a shoulder roast from a moose.

But I put it there.

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Originally posted by Demonical:
I found a 250gr Nosler Partition right in the middle of a shoulder roast from a moose.

But I put it there.

I found two .375 300gr Swift A-frames about 2" apart in a shoulder roast from a bison. I put them both there too.

Never have found someone else's bullet in an animal, yet anyway.

Cheers,
Canuck

I found a broadhead stuck in the scapula of a 100 pound pig I shot. It was fully encased in gristle and completely healed. Tough little bugger!

That's something on the elk just shows you a poor shot is a poor shot no matter what bullet or caliber you use and they will walk away and live.


Shot a pig at my brother place in OK. in spring last year with a 260 120gr NP not much blood loss even found some fat on the ground went back in the fall shot same pig did not know at time when we skinned him found the Nosler on far skin with grissel starting to grow around it bullet hit shoulder caught a peice of bone angled up hi and did not hit one vital spot he was lucky once not twice.

I've seen buck-shot, rifle bullet frags, and rabbit shot in wt deer. Found a shaft and 125grn thunderhead in the pelvis of a buck in Alabama.

Had a buddy that found a long piece of a shaft and broadhead in the chest cavity of a real nice 9pt whitetail. Appeared to be a fatal wound, but obviously wasn't. I've killed animals that were previously wounded and healed, but only the above projectiles were found.

Reloader

My 3rd best roe head (a measured CIC gold) has a 22 air rifle pellet embedded in the skull bone right between the eyes. Only visible on boiling out.

several years ago on opening day of rifle season in TN, i shot a buck. when i got him home and got to looking, i noticed a slimy gunk was in a small spot on his neck. upon further inspection, a small bump on his outer shoulder could be moved, so i cut it out. it was a rifle bullet. someone had undoubtedly taken a straight on shot and hit the deer in the side of the neck, the bullet traveling down just under the skin until it hit his outer shoulder. didn't seem to bother him any. but this was first light of opening morning of rifle season, and this was a rifle bullet...so either a juvenile shot at him on their special hunt a couple weeks prior, or someone poaching.

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Originally posted by Rob1SG:
My wife found a .308,180 gr Winchester XP3 bullet in our elk roast tonight. She at first told me it was a bolt but after we cleaned it up I weighed and measured it. 100% weight retention and four pedals just like the pics. I know its not a Barnes because there's a cap similar to a primer looking thing on the base and a bulge about mid bullet. Weird but true. Anyone else find something like it in your meat.I was using .338 200 gr Nosler Accubonds so it not mine.

Any pic's of the bullet?

I took some pics last night to send to a friend. I'll try and post them when I get home from work today

Sorry guys I've got the pics but forgot how to post them. any help out there

E-mail them to me at btomekATgvec.net (replacing the AT with @) and I will gladly upload and post them for you.

Bobby
PS-Or, if you are signed up for photobucket or similar, upload them, size them (on PB it can be done after the upload) and then copy and paste the image code into a post here.

Rob-

Here are your photos.

Bobby

Thanks
funny thing Photobucket e-mailed me after I sent you those about a new password so I now know how to post.

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Originally posted by Bobby Tomek:
Rob-

Here are your photos.

Bobby

An X Bullet!!

And I've been lead to believe that they kill like the Hammer of Thor!!

It's not a X bullet notice the cap at the bottom where they have inserted the tungsten and then capped it. This is a Winchester XP3 bullet. Probably made by Barnes.