6.5swedeforelk said:
Congrats on turning a dismal start
into a succussful hunt, Brian.
Either bullet recovered, or both pass-thru's?
You may need to down size to my caliber...
Given the time constraints, and that my dad is more interested in "getting the job done" than investigating, I didn't get a chance to look.
I really wanted pictures of entrance and exit wounds and the like...
Oddly, what I did see suggested that I missed entirely and simply scared him to death.
As is evident in the pics, there is no discernible blood on the impact side which I suppose is not terribly unusual, since he dropped immediately and rolled away from that side.
I also found no bloodshot meat *at all*.... but, when we finished with the impact side and I grabbed his opposite front leg to roll him over, the sounds and movement made it quite clear that that shoulder was badly broken.
I found no apparent entrance wound, no apparent exit wound and no blood-shot meat.
I did not even open the chest cavity to see what happened in there, but the skin was removed all around.
All I can say with reasonable confidence is that the first shot exited, given the amount and location of the blood in the snow under him. It couldn't have come from the second shot and there was no blood coming from the "up" side.
As much as that dark spot looks like it could be a bullet hole, it's much higher than I was aiming and I poked at it and detected no hole or blood.
The aim point would have been right behind the shoulder about where the lower of those two dark lines are visible....
You know what else I thought was weird... my dad removed the guts to get better access to the tender loins and this things stomach was ENORMOUS. I mean, it bulged out as soon as we penetrated the membrane and when it came out I would say it was 3 ft around, totally spherical... I should have taken a picture. I've never seen anything like it.