Just wondering

[billydjann]

Just wondering

I have cleaned many squirrel... but strange thing last year
I cleaned two squirrel at different times that had pellets under the skin.... (not mine)... just no entry wound...
Said squirrels were shot in my backyard during hunting season.. (shhhhh... don't tell the neighbor this)
but believe me... there was no wound for said pellet.... it was strange.. I could not figure it out...
(my shots are always through the lungs..) or try to anyway...

I have to believe the squirrels had to be carrying them for some time.... and just healed over....


This ever happen to you...

 

[plinker]

I have caught fish with lures in their mouths and shot a deer with a broad head in it, so it's probably safe to say squirrels can carry around pellets. There was a case several years ago where a dog was taken to the vet and xrayed for an ailment and it was discovered he had at least 80 bb's in him. Turns out someone used it for target practice. I wonder if squirrels can suffer from lead poisoning and just how much it would take. 

 

[plinker]

From the net: I didn't check on squirrels
Humans have been mining and using this heavy metal for thousands of years, poisoning themselves in the process. Although lead poisoning is one of the oldest known work and environmental hazards, the modern understanding of the small amount of lead necessary to cause harm did not come about until the latter half of the 20th century. No safe threshold for lead exposure has been discovered—that is, there is no known sufficiently small amount of lead that will not cause harm to the body.

 

[hasenpfeffer]

And the thing about lead poisoning is that it usually doesn't kill you, at least not right away. It just makes you stupid and violent.

 

[Beach-gunner]

That's it!!....no wonder I'm addicted to airguns!!?? It's the lead poisoning!

 

[JohnL57]

Yes, I took a rabbit last season with a head shot and found a Superdome pellet in its foreleg. I was shooting lead-free Baracuda green pellets that season and hadn't shot any Superdome pellets for two years. The only other airgun hunter on the place worked for a grower we leased the farmland to-he'd been gone for 2 years at the time this happened. I'm not sure of the lifespan of your average wild rabbit, but I was pretty baffled at the time!

 

[NMshooter]

My son caught a catfish with a stringer still in his mouth. When I went to add another fish to the stringer the sucker got away again! Talk about one lucky fish! LOL Thought he was going to be pissed at me but the thought of the fish getting away for a second time got the best of him and we couldn't stop laughing! Still makes me chuckle.