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I was clearing land on my property up in Northern Minnesota this weekend (near the Boundary Waters), and when I was bucking logs into lengths of firewood, I spotted something shiny and silver lodged in a log, near the core of the log. After carefully digging it out, I found what appears to be a .22 bullet.
--> Log was about 18" in diameter. Bullet near the center of the log (white cedar). No sign of scarring on the tree from entry.
--> Thinking that given the location of the bullet (core of an 18" cedar), there's no way a .22 bullet could get that deep, unless it hit the tree when the tree was young. Guessing the tree was AT LEAST 50 years old.
Anybody got any guesses on how old this thing is? I grazed the bottom of the bullet with my chainsaw, so if there were identifying markings, they're gone. The town nearby is quite small and has lots of old blood. I thought it would be fun to get a rough estimate on the age of the bullet, then try and track down the person who shot it by talking with locals in the community... then give it to them as a gift (if I can find the person). They were most likely hunting grouse in the area, before there was a road.
Anybody got any ideas?
New to the forum!
I was clearing land on my property up in Northern Minnesota this weekend (near the Boundary Waters), and when I was bucking logs into lengths of firewood, I spotted something shiny and silver lodged in a log, near the core of the log. After carefully digging it out, I found what appears to be a .22 bullet.
--> Log was about 18" in diameter. Bullet near the center of the log (white cedar). No sign of scarring on the tree from entry.
--> Thinking that given the location of the bullet (core of an 18" cedar), there's no way a .22 bullet could get that deep, unless it hit the tree when the tree was young. Guessing the tree was AT LEAST 50 years old.
Anybody got any guesses on how old this thing is? I grazed the bottom of the bullet with my chainsaw, so if there were identifying markings, they're gone. The town nearby is quite small and has lots of old blood. I thought it would be fun to get a rough estimate on the age of the bullet, then try and track down the person who shot it by talking with locals in the community... then give it to them as a gift (if I can find the person). They were most likely hunting grouse in the area, before there was a road.
Anybody got any ideas?
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