Dustin Checotah Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Friend from work brought this in today. He does woodworking with cedar and found this in a 2x4 that he was cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Looks like a bullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Looks like a bullet. It is looks to me to be about .30 cal rifle bullet of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The white thing looks like a trigger? But the bullet is believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cusz M. Dutch SASS Life 55326 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Have a large lead bullet in the wall in my wifes room. Tree was green and growing when bullet entered the aspen tree, Later the board was planned down into lumber with no holes or gaps around said bullet on either side of the board. Sorta cool when you think of the odds of finding one, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I've got a saw mill and have found many bullets when cutting up lumber. Once found a 45-70 or larger bullet that spanned into three 1" thick planks, gave it back to the rancher that gave me the logs. My living room is all rough cut beetle kill pine, 20 inch wide stuff. It came from the Remount Ranch, Tom Horn used to stay there. There is a group of 30-30 bullets in the center of 5-6 planks, the tree was about 150 years old. Tom could have used it for target practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The white thing looks like a trigger? But the bullet is believable. That's the copper jacket peeled back. Probably not white, just reflecting the light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 We ran a sawmill for over 20 years. I'm not surprised at all. We hit all manner of stuff in logs. One cherry log had a row of railroad spikes driven in it to make steps - grown over when we found them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 We ran a sawmill for over 20 years. I'm not surprised at all. We hit all manner of stuff in logs. One cherry log had a row of railroad spikes driven in it to make steps - grown over when we found them. Those had to play hell on a saw blade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Morningwood Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Is this a Rorschach test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGT. QUINCANNON, SASS #32999 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 When I worked in Monterey State Historic Park we had the door of the Custom House kicked open by a transient one morning at about 4:30 am. One redwood board in the door (probably 150 years old) was splintered, so the carpenter remove the old plank. He found a spackled hole in the plank that was exposed by the crack caused by the kick, and in that hole was a .36 caliber lead ball, showing signs of slight deformation of the type caused by a C&B Colt's loading lever forcing it into the revolver's chamber. We surmised that someone had fired a Navy Colt at the door (Forth of July, perhaps?). Cool finding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Imagine finding somethin' like this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presidio Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Well, they say "If only this here tree could tell its' story". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Imagine finding somethin' like this... I would hope my friend would notice that in a 2x4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 People used to put all sorts of stuff in the crotches of trees and let them grow over. Axes, saws, chains, plow sweeps, barbed wire (very common) and yep backstops for target practice. I still do the latter and big cedars are a favorite.. Modern sawmills have metal detectors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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