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Offline osage outlaw

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Found a suprise inside a stave
« on: March 16, 2011, 11:36:28 pm »
A bullet :o   A copper jacketed bullet to be exact.  I didn't know it was there until I cut a little excess from the bottom of the stave.  I turned it over there it was.  I guess it is the cause of the split.  It looks like it has been there a long time.  This tree was growing close to a road, maybe someone shot it from their car.





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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2011, 11:38:23 pm »
Any chance of saving it in the bow? 8)

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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 11:44:35 pm »
Coooooool!  If this one survives tillering it has a great 'shot' at Bow of the Month. 


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Offline RyanY

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2011, 11:45:19 pm »
I split a large hickory tree last year that had a slug in it. My ex girlfriends father who help me cut the wood thought it may have been hers from one of their first hunting trips. I ended up cutting it out still in the piece of wood and gave it to him.
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Offline sweeney3

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2011, 12:15:40 am »
Be kinda cool to take a deer with a bow made with a spent round in it from a guy who MISSED a deer with a firearm.  If that convoluted sentance doesn't make any sense, let me know and I'll reconstruct it somehow.  I think it just confused me.
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Offline Rick Wallace

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2011, 12:17:54 am »
Cool, thats called character !!
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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2011, 12:20:17 am »
sweeeeeeet!! :o
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2011, 07:49:17 am »
Quote from: Bevan R. on March 16, 2011, 11:38:23 pm
Any chance of saving it in the bow? 8)

Bevan R

No, it is too deep to keep it in.  It would be cool if I could though.  If this bow makes it, I'll name it "Bullet", or maybe "The whispering eye" ;D
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2011, 08:44:34 am »
Thats cool,I once found 3 nails in a stave, it made a fine bow.
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2011, 11:13:18 am »
Only thing I ever found in a tree was a BIG nail. Found it with my Dad's brand new chain saw. The first cut ha let me try with it.  :D
I still have that piece of wood with the nail.

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Offline uwe

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2011, 11:37:57 am »
Not uncommon!
Years ago the sawmills in Germany had problems with WW2 bullets, granate and bombsplinters.
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Offline crooketarrow

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2011, 11:51:39 am »
   That make and alsome bow,if you can leave it in.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2011, 12:10:22 pm »
I won't be able to leave it in the limb, but I thought I could save it and drill a hole in the thick part of the handle and put it in there.
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2011, 12:12:13 pm »
Make yourself a 'lead' strik plate.  ;)

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Offline Will H

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2011, 09:11:10 pm »
very cool man, you should definately incorporate it somehow. Its to bad it cant stay in the limb
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