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The wife and I were splitting black oak for fire wood today, up on the property that I hunt deer on. This stuff is super hard and stringy, darn near impossible to split by hand.

As I ran the hydraulic ram into a round, I saw something that I instantly recognized. There was an expended bullet. Perfectly mushroomed smack dab in the middle of this piece of wood.

I know this isn't really unusual. In fact when I was a youngster pulling green chain in a local veneer mill we would occasionally have parts of bullets, nails, spikes, wire and even a broadhead or two come bouncing down the belt on top of the veneer. They had been sliced into segments by the knives during the peeling process.

I think this is a .30 caliber Remington Corelokt bullet, based on the recessed base of the bullet.

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