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well,#1) i would have done the same thing (opened it up). i would want to know what was inside that, to know whether the amimal was good to eat or not. 2) you certainly did the hog a favor, it was doomed to a slow, miserable (lead poisoning) death. 3) have you talked to anyone about lead poisoning of the animal? my only concern (because i have young children) would be if any of the lead could have worked its way into the meat. 4) this should be proof to many of you that a 22 rimfire is for SMALL GAME . good job shooting a NICE hog!
 
2) you certainly did the hog a favor, it was doomed to a slow, miserable (lead poisoning) death. 3) have you talked to anyone about lead poisoning of the animal? my only concern (because i have young children) would be if any of the lead could have worked its way into the meat.
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Lead bullets are left in people all the time. They don't die slow, miserable deaths from the lead. Very little lead actually leaches into their systems. No doubt that hog had a nasty infection, but the bullet recovered was pristine and does NOT show signs of dissolution. That hog would need to live many lifetimes before that slug dissolved enough to be a health issue.

4) this should be proof to many of you that a 22 rimfire is for SMALL GAME
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It really isn't, no more so that the broad head arrows found in the animals mentioned above is proof that they are for small game.
 
lead in that sense won't cause lead poisoning- they tried to outlaw lead for hunting, did studies and found that in fact it does not leach and cause death.

what it did do in this case is make for a miserable time for that hog. How bad was the smell?
 
Geez, I thought from the title this was going to be another "I'm so stupid I just shot myself so I'll tell the whole world - with pictures!" thread...glad it wasn't...
 
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Geez, I thought from the title this was going to be another "I'm so stupid I just shot myself so I'll tell the whole world - with pictures!" thread.
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NOT! :D

I have been handling and shooting firearms for 45 years and can "honestly" say I have NEVER had a negligent discharge...let alone shot myself or someone else.


glad it wasn't...
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Me too. :D
 
I don't care what some say.a 22lr within 30 yards out of a rifle preferably will dispatch that hog...;)
 
Gentlemen,

My purpose for posting this thread was only to point out the oddity itself, not to weigh the merits of using a .22 rimfire on hogs.

Hopefully, this thread will not degenerate into an argument over what is (and isn't) appropriate to use on hogs. It all depends on circumstance...we can all agree on that.

We do not know how or why this hog was shot....only that it WAS and it survived. The wound was a curiosity, nothing more.

Thank you all for being civil. :D

Flint.
 
I do that for a living and the smell is pretty bad. Me thinks somebody had to much time on his hands. I have seen infections that had gallons of crap in them from a simple scratch let alone some idiots 22 bullet.
 
Aaawww heck, that wasn't nearly as bad as what you all are making it out to be. Just a little infected place like you get with a splinter or sticker. Well slightly bigger, but I bet it would have popped all by it's self in a week or two.

I got one on a quick trip by my friends place while taking down a stand. The wife and I got it loaded on the 4 wheeler and got it to the barn. The wife headed to the local store for ice and I went to town getting the skin off.

About three minutes before she got back, I opened up the chest, and abdomen. There my friends, was some of the wildest looking, light tan silly putty, small piece of lung tissue tumor looking goo stuff, I could have ever had the displeasure of having a nightmare about. That wasn't the BEST PART EITHER, it took a few seconds due to the wind coming through the barn but when the smell hit me, DAAAAYYYUUUMMM.

Now I have a very strong stomach and nothing really grosses me out, but folks I got to tell ya, I had a pretty hard time getting that thing in a tub so that we could haul it off to the back, and it isn't fun trying to drive a 4 wheeler with a towel tied around your face all the while trying your damndest not to puke.

And that wasn't the worst either....
 
There would be no lead poisoning, Prob. the only way to get lead poisoning from a bullet is if it sits in the GI tract. Further that bullet would have eventually worked it's way out, and at that point the wound would begin to heal.
 
you puked in the towel didn't you?
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Nope sure didn't, but I got to tell you, there were a couple of times, that, well it was damnably close. If I had ever started I would have had to left the whole rig out there till the smell was gone.

It actually wasn't as bad as caping out the buck my bud shot, the second time, after almost two weeks. There are a couple of things we settled on that day, and hunting privileges were one of them. LOL He hit it one weekend jsut before we left to go on an exotic hunt. It bothered him the whole trip and he simply knew he had to have hit the deer but couldn't find any sign of it. Two weeks later while hauling cotton bales out of the field the hauler comes driving up to us real fast telling us about this wide racked buck that simple laid down and hid from him as he came by it in the field. his description fit the one my bud shot at prior so we headed out to investigate. Slowly cruising the end of the rows we finally saw part of a deer a hundred yards or so away, laying between two rows, and we eased out of the Mule and slipped in towards it. It raised it's head and sure enough it was the same buck. He put one through the neck ending it's suffering. The previous shot had hit a limb or something and deflected downward causing the bullet to enter the side of the chest and travel in and under the offside shoulder. The fellow is a great shot, and the range was only about 60yds. From the angle it was easy to see it had been deflected downward. The tough ol buck probably wouldn't have made it too much longer due to infection, but had already covered several miles from the initial hit, and was still trailing does when spotted by the farmer. Needless to say I didn't have much help while getting the cape and horns off that one.

Actually this ol yote we shot was about as bad or worse than either of them,
 
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Great pics man. It's pretty common here to find a bullet in a hog. I would venture to say 1 out of 4 we shoot has a bullet lodged somewhere. Most have healed up just fine. The one I'm getting mounted had a .30 fmj (likely an SKS or AK round) stuck in his shield where someone had shot him from behind and a large patch in his loin and spine that was covered with fragments (high velocity .22 probably). I just can't resist cutting into scar tissue while skinning anymore. I'll try to get a few pics this winter.
 
Totally gross but very informative. Good lesson on .22's.
Thanks Dr. Tad now I'll never be able to eat tomato alfredo again in my life. Reminds me of the time Bernie the dairy farmer looked down into the manure pit and remarked it looked like pea soup. Can't eat pea soup without gagging anymore either. And don't lets get started on the disgusting dog stories.
 
What kind of idgit did that I wonder.
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Probably a PO'd farmer or rancher who was just hoping to kill him either outright or with infection. I don't want to start a debate about the ethics of it, but a lot of that goes on here in the part of Texas I live in. And oh yes, great pics.
 
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