Field cleaned an elk, a female friend of the family shot.. she's handicapped...
there was a big hard lump on the heart when I took that out.. since I was going to cook and eat the heart, when
I cleaned it at the cabin, I cut out the lump and then washed it off real good.. was a bullet that hadn't penetrated the heart
just part of the side of the muscle wall....
a Customer over in Coos Bay, who owned the local oil company over there, had a bunch of elk head mounts in his
office... in a glass cabinet, he also had multiple parts of elk backbone or neck...
he had kept them, as each one had one or more arrow heads in them, and that the wound had been grown over
and healed at the time each animal was taken by him...
one particularly large bull's neck spine had 5 different arrow heads, embedded into it....
guess the animals are too dumb to know what pain is, or just learn to live with it and keep on truckin....
didn't impress me much about bow hunters... but then, that is why he kept that stuff..
he didn't care for bow hunters much either...
