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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. imageupload
BT53 "Where do they find young men like this?" Reporter Savidge, Iraq Elk, it's what's for dinner....
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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. imageuploadIf only it could tell us the story.
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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
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The woodshop at the Pella plant in Pella iowa had a big can full of bullets and pellets. Round balls, buckshot, every caliber. Maxi balls, perfect mushrooms, FMJs, you name it. Pretty neat find.
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Pretty neat! I seen pics of pistols and rifles grown into trees before.
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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. imageuploadIf only it could tell us the story. Something like this: 2 days before the season, Cletus and Mortimer got drunked up and went to sight in Cletus new rifle. He had some Craiglist ammo in a paper sack. First one missed the tree, second one hit it. Good enough, says Cletus. The end.
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A eight inch diameter trunk, the bullet was pretty much in the middle.....
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You could probably get $50 for that with the current reloading supply shortage.
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Deadliest mushroom in the woods!
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Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
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Was wondering where that one went...
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neighbor at camp found a round ball in a big oak round a few years ago. none of us know anyone in the past 50 years who would have been shooting a round ball that close to the camps. the area where the camps are built was woods until the early 50's when the camps started going in. it was really corroded too. he still has it. looks like its under 45 or so caliber.
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You guys are luckier than me, found a hell of a fungal infection last year doing wood. 10 days in the hospital and still dealing with it. Trade ya for the bullet...lol
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Cool when you find them because you always wonder about the story behind it.
When I worked for Howard Miller Clock Company every once in a while you'd have to pull a grandfather clock off the line because there was a big old lead spot in the middle of the clock.
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You guys are luckier than me, found a hell of a fungal infection last year doing wood. 10 days in the hospital and still dealing with it. Trade ya for the bullet...lol Wait, what? You caught a fungal infection from the wood?
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A guy at work came in with a plastic bag. "Karl, you ain't gonna believe what I found in a piece of firewood last night."
It was a squirrel.
Sawed in half.
Somehow while he was cutting, he sawed it in half.
Would love to have seen that from inside the log.
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According to the the local health department and my infectious disease doctor, yeah. Going by my recollection and what my family has done, they believe it was cutting.
Usually if I do hit a rotten section, I stop and either get rid of that log or cut further up. I was on humira for my crohns at the the time and it was like the perfect storm. According to my doc, a normal system with a normal immune system it would have been a non issue.
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I usually find nails.
Cut ones.
Not old fashioned cut nails.
Chainsaw cut nails.
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Neat find. If only it could talk.
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Deadliest mushroom in the woods!
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In the last 45 years in the carpenter business I've found half a dozen or so bullets in framing lumber and v-groove cedar ceiling boards. The last one was in a piece of barn wood I was installing as wainscot. The barn it came from had stood for 80 some odd years and the bullet was in the wood for a while before it became a barn board judging by the way the tree had healed around it. All those bullets we shoot in the woods go someplace. Someday the one that went through the deer I shot last week might turn up in a board. That little 4 point whitetail was the 11th buck that died from a bullet sent from that particular WW SuperX casing. It also has two coyotes to its credit.
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