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I was eating venison roast yesterday and bit down on something hard. I dropped it on a plate and it went clank. It was a 6.5 140 grain sierra bullet. I was lucky and didn't damage a tooth or get cut. Ken

Ouch! Glad you didn't bust any grillework.

I've bitten into unplated buckshot while chowing on bear steak, but never chomped down on a jacketed bullet. Makes my teeth hurt thinking about it.

At least it didn't over-penetrate!

Under penetration - it has consequences.

Of course curiosity begs the questions:

1) retained weight?

2) shape of mushroom?

3) muzzle velocity?

4) distance at impact?

5) are you sure that deer is dead? (common belief that cup-and-core bullets simply don't kill what they're aimed at).

kinda hard to hurt your teeth with tinfoil

OK, I'll go find the camera!

Is that what you shot it with?

I trim away all the affected wound channel for just such an event.

I'm in Arizona and can't weigh it.

"Try not to eat too many of them pellets, They's made out of lead."
-Robert Duvall, Secondhand Lions

I usually don't keep anything within 6 inches of the shock area when I process.



I don't like hair, blood-goo, bone splinters, bullet frags.



another reason I throw turkey carcasses off at the stop sign near mile's house

You misunderstood. That's NOT what is meant by "Venison with Mushroom."

Very good !

Damn! Who's the butcher?

Yeah.. I'm trying to understand how whoever cut up that deer missed the hole that traveled through - unless it's an old bullet the deer was carrying.

I bit down on a small bullet fragment yesterday and that was bad enough.

Not to disparage your shooting skills, but was it a Chuck roast or Round?