Double Exit Wound?

[Erik Hamburger]

Bullets can Exit at a 90 degree angle, even with a broadside h/l shot, generally through the backside. The result is often what I call an 'Auto-Gralloch'. Not pretty. I have seen it more than once or twice. Makes a bit of a mockery of the requirement to have a safe backstop...
So two exit holes? It happens, not often, but it does. Fragmented bullet.

 

[Leroux]

How long before someone says you should have used copper? Apologies. Could not resist!

 

[Foxyboy43]

Hmmm.
Not two exit holes just one rather obvious one - roe shot perfectly side-on through shoulder - huge red corona behind her and she dropped. Stark reminder of what a .308 can do

 

[John Gryphon]

I once had a patient who had been shot in the chest - the bullet came to rest at the back of one of his heels.

Same with a chest shot roo (308) found bullet at base of tail. a 4' travel.

 

[Stalker62]

Same with a chest shot roo (308) found bullet at base of tail. a 4' travel.

This chap was shot with a handgun, so I think either .38 or 9mm.

Distance of travel would have been in the order of 5".

Academic really, as (unsurprisingly) he did not survive it.

 

[Andy seatrout]

I shot a fallow doe back in November with its fawn….. straightforward shot, broadside, Hornady SST 140g in 6.5x55…... then shot the follower, both moved maybe five yards - the follower was fine- entry and exit just behind the shoulder, the doe I had to condemn as the bullet had taken an eighty degree deflection and gone through the rumen and out just in front of the haunch……. Green everywhere and that was that ( dog food for the keeper)

I’m still scratching my head today, bullets do do some weird things….

To the OP; do you think the bullet could have exited the roe, hit a stone and ploughed straight back into the animal from the other side?

 

[Ratel]

This chap was shot with a handgun, so I think either .38 or 9mm.

Distance of travel would have been in the order of 5".

Academic really, as (unsurprisingly) he did not survive it.

Similar but fmj 30 cal, two in chest one out back the other hit spine and came back through chest. Nasty mess all round but non survivor, thankfully.

 

[stubear]

Bullets do strange things. I remember being in a high seat not long after I started stalking, shot a doe on a field which was as soft and muddy as you like so I thought it was safe as houses.

The bullet went through the deer, killed it and then did a 180 and whistled over my head.

My dad also had one a few years back where he shot a munty doe - bullet went through the first shoulder, hit the inside of the other shoulder then turned 90 degrees and exited halfway down the flank on the other side of the animal.

 

[Dave Lakes]

I shot a fallow doe back in November with its fawn….. straightforward shot, broadside, Hornady SST 140g in 6.5x55…... then shot the follower, both moved maybe five yards - the follower was fine- entry and exit just behind the shoulder, the doe I had to condemn as the bullet had taken an eighty degree deflection and gone through the rumen and out just in front of the haunch……. Green everywhere and that was that ( dog food for the keeper)

I’m still scratching my head today, bullets do do some weird things….

To the OP; do you think the bullet could have exited the roe, hit a stone and ploughed straight back into the animal from the other side?

It’s always possible, but I think unlikely in this case. This is one of the softest and wettest fields in the county!

 

[Twodogs]

Not deer related but terminal ballistic related.
If interested look at the ballistics in relation to the path the bullets took in the JFK assassination.