The Mystery! What is it?

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mhambi

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Sep 10, 2010
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This was from last years batch of juniper. I mean... what are the odds?! :lol:


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My son actually pointed it out after the whole batch was cut/stacked.
 
Cool! I'll go with a bullet too.

Billy
 
My dad was picking wood for a cabinet and found an FMJ perfectly bisected lengthwise in one piece- he put it right in the middle of the door. Maybe I'll take a pic tonight. I have identified what may be an all lead bullet in my bathroom door upstairs.
 
Pics please! That sounds neat.

It is good to know that a chainsaw will go right through a bullet without the operator even noticing. One less thing to worry about.
I'm already worried about hitting old sugar taps and fence wire.
 
sksmass said:
Pics please! That sounds neat.

It is good to know that a chainsaw will go right through a bullet without the operator even noticing. One less thing to worry about.
I'm already worried about hitting old sugar taps and fence wire.
Actually, I've heard of some people cutting large chunks of soft lead into manageable sizes using chainsaws. The lead is soft enough that a skilled operator can cut the lead without severely damaging the chain. Would I recommend doing it with a new/good chain? No, I'd be pretty nervous, but if you have one getting near the end of it's life I don't see why you couldn't try it...
 
I wonder how a bullet would end up in that direction on a standing tree? Is that a limb perhaps?

A few years back a logger cut into an old animal trap on our land that a tree had grown around many moons ago.

We were also clearing some land for a new building one time and an old soft maple had to come down. It was hollowed out pretty bad. We they started to cut it down the chainsaw hit something. Turned out the main trunk had been filled with concrete years ago in an attempt to save it I guess.
 
I butchered a chain earlier this summer on a small pulley in a big old elm. It was right in the middle of the tree, quite likely from either kids playing around or a light clothesline.

Since I often cut dead or downed trees on our yard which has been a farmsite for well over a hundred years I am surprised that I don't destroy more chains.
 
would be cool to find the matching round and split both open to see if it was the grain of the wood that redirected the flight/penetration path.

I've split pieces of red oak open to see if there was any rhyme or reason to grub travel.
From my observations, They are just hungry. :)
Ants just chew out little burrows to call home.
 
Looks like a 45acp fmj to me. Can you pry it out? I'm curious now.
Joe
 
polaris said:
Looks like a 45acp fmj to me. Can you pry it out? I'm curious now.
Joe


You sir, are correct!


I pried it out last year. It's sitting in a drawer at home right now. The saw cut through the bullet at about a 45 degree angle. If you look at the right of the picture, you can see the 'damaged' wood caused by the impact.
 
An old swamp maple that had come down had a horse shoe in the very center. Looks like it was put there when the tree was a sapling. The tree was 5' in diameter. This was in flushing NY city. Parsons tree farm was there during the Revolution. British troops guarded it during the war!
 
Sorry Robert prince tree farm George Washington visited it after the war!
 
Dig it out let us see it. If not at least give us a diameter.
 
Last year I cut some dead oak that was really dry and very old. One night I looked into the stove probably an hour after loading some of that oak and there was an old square nail sticking out of a piece of the wood. It must have been pretty deep into the wood because it wasn't visible when I put the wood in the stove. Not sure when people stopped using square nails but I figured that nail must be pretty old.
 
I didn't hit it with the saw but cleaning out ashes once I found a blob of glass with a 20 penny spike through it. I was an insulator from an old electric fence.
 
This Spring I found 3 .22 bullets inside a Maple round as I split it. Someone either shooting squirrels or having target practice.
 
Found this one in a stump this past March...not as clean a specimen as yours, but the entry wound is pretty cool.
 

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That's cool WNCburner!


I dug up another pic of just after I got the bullet out. If you look, you can see another partial jacket above, and another entry point below.


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