Strange Find in a Slab

[Daninvan]

I milled up a really big beech log at the end of 2013. Some of the wood I had stacked in my regular pile and some of it was leaning against the north side of my garage and covered from the sun and rain. These latter boards were actually too big to fit on the side of my house, as I only have about 4' between my house and my fence.

Much to my dismay these big slabs all started to crack and I decided to save what I could by cutting them up and saving the sections that were still good. As I was doing so, I came across this. I am not a gun guy but it looks like a bullet to me. Not something I expected to be embedded in the trunk of a tree not far from where I live.

What do others think?

 

[jerry quinn]

It definitely is a bullet. could be a 9mm full metal jacket.

 

[blades]

Fairy modern bullet as evidenced by the jacket still attached, FMJ style, agree it could be 9mm(.356), or 357(.358). Time period would reach back to the 50's

 

[Grey]

Bullets are common as nails around here. PA has 1.3 million licensed hunters, most of any state by far.

 

[agrams]

I've seen a lot of bullets in Texas trees. Even found a 50 cal once, that was a chunk of metal.

Gray, in regards to your statement, I looked this up:

http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/Subpages/LicenseInfo/HuntingLicCertHistory20042013.pdf

I expected Texas to have the most (by shear state population), but what surprised me is the relative low number of stamps/tags/licenses that texas has vs states. Does PA issue tags for a lot more game species? Texas hunting is deer/turkey/waterfowl(some alligator). I wonder if their numbers are total number of tags (say 2 deer tags = 2 tags) or if it is a tag count per species (deer tag for all of your deer, etc.).

 

[nomad_archer]

Bullets are common as nails around here. PA has 1.3 million licensed hunters, most of any state by far.

PA hasn't had those kind of numbers for a long time pre 2002. 2012 there where 943,583 PA hunters thats the most recent data the has been published. Still a ton of hunters and yes there are a lot of bullets in trees around here as well. I have put a few bullets in trees myself but it was not intentional

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=596054&mode=2

 

[nomad_archer]

I've seen a lot of bullets in Texas trees. Even found a 50 cal once, that was a chunk of metal.

Gray, in regards to your statement, I looked this up:

http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/Subpages/LicenseInfo/HuntingLicCertHistory20042013.pdf

I expected Texas to have the most (by shear state population), but what surprised me is the relative low number of stamps/tags/licenses that texas has vs states. Does PA issue tags for a lot more game species? Texas hunting is deer/turkey/waterfowl(some alligator). I wonder if their numbers are total number of tags (say 2 deer tags = 2 tags) or if it is a tag count per species (deer tag for all of your deer, etc.).

The PA numbers are for the general license sales which the general license is required for each hunter.

 

[Grey]

The PA numbers are for the general license sales which the general license is required for each hunter.

That makes more sense that TX would have more total registered hunters. PA issues one tag for one Buck and 1? turkey, but then you have to apply separately for each anterless tag, DMAP, extra turkey, and other assorted odds-and-ends, so that is where all the extra tags are coming from. Any way you slice it, it gets really busy during firearm deer season. I bow hunt only, so I usually stay out of the woods, at least for the first week of firearms.

 

[Grey]

As you can tell, I'm pretty new to the hunting regs in PA, so thanks for straightening me out.

 

[audible fart]

Friend of mine used to live in a really bad apartment complex that had lots of really, really old and huge red oak trees. These trees were covered in bullet holes, 10 feet from the apartments. They tore that complex down.

 

[agrams]

ahh, in Texas you get your license and it has 5 tags on it (5 deer limit, max 3 bucks), then you are limited by type of deer (antlerless/buck/spike) by county (some county are 1 doe/1buck, 2 bucks/1 doe, it varies all over. You don't have to apply for extra tags.

 

[Mike Van]

I dug so many bullets and shotgun slugs out of a walnut log years ago, the tree probably died of lead poisoning -

 

[nomad_archer]

That makes more sense that TX would have more total registered hunters. PA issues one tag for one Buck and 1? turkey, but then you have to apply separately for each anterless tag, DMAP, extra turkey, and other assorted odds-and-ends, so that is where all the extra tags are coming from. Any way you slice it, it gets really busy during firearm deer season. I bow hunt only, so I usually stay out of the woods, at least for the first week of firearms.

Actually Pa has more registered hunters than TX last i looked Pa has the most hunters in the nation with Wisconsin being second. But PA gives you spring turkey, fall turkey, small game, and a buck tag with your general hunting license. You have to apply for a doe tag or tags. Then buy stamps or privileges for archery, muzzleloader, fur bearer, bear tag, waterfowl stamp. But the total number of hunters for PA that I gave before was total general license sales which doesn't include the add-ons of doe, archery, etc. One general license = 1 hunter.

 

[agrams]

Nomad, I am curious where you got your numbers from. The link I provided was from US Fish and wildlife and went back to 2004 (they had even older numbers, but I didn't pull that file up), and each year Texas has more paid license holders than any other state.

 

[nomad_archer]

Nomad, I am curious where you got your numbers from. The link I provided was from US Fish and wildlife and went back to 2004 (they had even older numbers, but I didn't pull that file up), and each year Texas has more paid license holders than any other state.

Ahh yes I mis-read/interpreted the link. So I am most certainly incorrect and stand corrected. Sorry about that sometimes I read to fast and dont fully process. I missed the most important column on the left that was the state numbers. Again my fault sorry about that. Still TX, PA and WI really stand out for hunter numbers.

 

[steve md]

Friend of mine used to live in a really bad apartment complex that had lots of really, really old and huge red oak trees. These trees were covered in bullet holes, 10 feet from the apartments. They tore that complex down.

tall trees?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Strange Find in a Slab"

Not really all that strange..... I hit 2 bullets and about 30, #7-1/2 size bird shot, just today in a big log... I also hit something that I haven't removed to identify just yet.

I'll remove it and see what it is later...

SR

 

[john taliaferro]

Cutting a big maple i hit a 16'' saw chain i remembered loosing when younger .