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Only if he found the spent primer.

I dug a well mushrromed .38 wadcutter out of some plywood roof decking while stripping off a roof.

Went and inside the empty rental and seen old spot of dap putty in the sheetrock ceiling.

Realtor said someone sucked a pistol a few years back in that bedroom.

Built a couple of additions, and remodeled the kitchen of a house near Santa Fe.
When I sanded the tongue and groove floor in the office addition, I turned up a shiny spot.
It was a 22 lead slug, embedded in a board - in the middle of the entry doorway
(Would have been a pain to remove that board, in that location)
The lady of the house (Swedish immigrant) decided it was kind of neat, and to just leave it there.
Bless you, Eva !

If you don’t mind if I ask, was it histoplasmosis?

It tells me the sumbich tree jumped in front of a deer someone was shooting at.

I noticed a bulge in a bathroom surround and thought it was a nail or screw from the garage side.
I investigated and found what looked like a small caliber hole in the sheetrock - then noticed a lead streak along the side of the freezer.

Lining everything up, I found a .22 caliber hole in my garage door! It went through the door just grazing the freezer and hit the sheetrock, putting the bulge in the surround!

My wife gave me the stink eye...but I said "Hell No" it wasn't me.
Anything stupid I did would have been out going......:)

*Chain saws.... where we're cutting is all low land just outside of town. Small towns.
Lot's of hunting over several generations has taken place here and there's little doubt that there's a bunch of wounded tree out there. Most of what I find with the saw is old wire fencing and that sure wreaks havoc on a good chain!

Yet the tree lived . . . .

That's right! They'll do it every time.

The base also resembles a Nosler Partition IMO.

Good thing the trees catch a lot of the stray bullets. I had a buddy in high school that caught a stray 30 caliber bullet in his butt hunting deer in Texas...We had no ideal where it came from. All the shots we heard that evening it happened were way far off in the distance...

found an 8mm FMJ in a piece I was splitting a few years ago. Had about 2 inches of discolored trail behind it and the tree was about 4 inches in diameter when hit, the log was about 18 inches when I split it

I've found a few 22 lead bullets in oak tops from the farm splitting firewood from a select cut....made me wonder if they were shot by gramps, dad, brother or me nobody else has hunted squirrels in that woods in the past 80 years....

I worked in sawmills for 42 years, as a saw filer.

Somewhere in my "treasures" I have a steel core military bullet we hit with a saw.

Someone was target shooting with old military ammo.

I had to weld in about a dozen teeth back in that saw.

Seems we were always hitting some kind of hard stuff. Rock, nails, bullets, insulators, etc.

Virgil B.

Interesting thread here; and I'm sure there's a few trees in this world containing bullets deposited by me back in my younger days. At least I had a good back stop. Years ago a buddy clipped a small branch with a T/C Contender with a 444 Marlin barrel while aiming at a deer. Deflected the bullet just enough to miss the deer but hit a big oak (?) tree not too far away.

Sure, you did recover the log. Nevertheless, I prefer "premium" bullets to assure a "pass through" for a good sap trail.

When Dad was a representative for a company that sold baler and binder twine, he was sent to a warehouse (I think in Kansas) to check on some complaints. It seems that people were complaining about their balls of twine coming right in the first few feet. No one had bothered to check any deeper as they assumed that whole ball would be in short segments. Dad went to the warehouse and looked over some some the bales of twine stacked there. Right away, he found one with a small hole in the paper wrapping. A little investigation revealed that someone had gotten the bright idea to do a little indoor target practice with the bales of twine as a backstop.

I used to hunt occasionally with a guy who used a 375 H&H on deer and elk. He jokingly said that it was great in timber because he could shoot through a tree to hit a deer.

I like this one

I actually did this myself a couple of years ago cutting a hollow tree in my back yard.

Fell the tree, limbed it and was working my way down the trunk when a squirrel missing its rear half came crawling out. Freaked me out until I figured out what it was.

I believe I would have crapped all over myself if I found that while cutting that log.