Help finding shot in meat?

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Help finding shot in meat?

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Had our first meal of TSS shot turkey and was wondering if there is an easy way to locate the shot in the meat. I had little trouble with the larger lead shot as I could locate almost all of it before cooking but it seems the smaller TSS shot is incredibly hard to see in the meat. Ideas needed!
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If I find shot holes in the breast, I cut the breast in thin strips looking for bloodlines which I cut out. Usually, so far, all have been complete pass throughs.
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I cube it up and hit it with a meat hammer to flatten it out before I bread it. When you hit it with with the hammer any shot in it will pop out.
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Gar Commander wrote: May 19th, 2019, 9:16 pm I cube it up and hit it with a meat hammer to flatten it out before I bread it. When you hit it with with the hammer any shot in it will pop out.
This is what I do too.
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If I think shot is in the meat, I hold it in front of the kitchen light. You will see it in there as black spots. Little slice and push it out.
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My strategy is to let the wife do it. Last time some shot go in the breast she said, between making remarks about my shooting ability, that she would have to slice that part thin and hold it up to the light.
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I was wondering if anyone has ever tried one of those little 8" hand wand metal detectors, if they are sensitive enough to detect a #9 pellet.
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crow wrote: May 19th, 2019, 9:55 pm I was wondering if anyone has ever tried one of those little 8" hand wand metal detectors, if they are sensitive enough to detect a #9 pellet.
I actually asked about that on a metal detecting forum and folks seemed to think that a pinpointer wouldn't pick up the small shot.
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They're used to be a detector aimed towards sportsman

Funny story. I used to bring all the farmers we goose hunted goose jerky. One was really cool he has now passed stop to ask end up slugging beers for hours in the barn. One night I took mom said I'll be just a few, ended up two hours, she's like what did you do, she's like you could of invited me in.

Stop over get "yeah you can hunt but don't bring any of that #$&_+/@* jerky I broke my tooth" lol Miss him but new owners still let us hunt.
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Shoot them in the head
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Our metal detector (full scale, not a pin pointer) can detect a single #9 TSS or #7 HWT at a few inches in all-metal mode. My TSS shot and the HWT shot are weakly magnetic.
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Dentures work great. Break a tooth just grab some gorilla glue.
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Try using a full copper jacketed bullet and maybe go to a bigger caliber.
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MKW wrote: May 19th, 2019, 10:02 pm
crow wrote: May 19th, 2019, 9:55 pm I was wondering if anyone has ever tried one of those little 8" hand wand metal detectors, if they are sensitive enough to detect a #9 pellet.
I actually asked about that on a metal detecting forum and folks seemed to think that a pinpointer wouldn't pick up the small shot.


Thats to bad, the hand wand would have to be cheaper then dental work.

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I was eating a leftover chunk of filet mignon, at work, from the night before at our local supper club, and bit into a piece of lead shot. I’m guessing it was a 7 1/2 chill. Had a few buddies witness it. Talk about a surprise!! Pull a stinkin BB out of a hunk of steak. No guff!
This was probably 15 years ago. Somebody obviously blasted the cow inside the fence, somehow?
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