biting into TSS?

[76chevy]

anybody done this before?



It has to be terrible, lead at least has some give.  I had a friend break a tooth and TSS concerns me. 

[Greg Massey]

The way I look at it, you either made a bad shot or you didn't clear your gobbler very well ... IMO......

[Gooserbat]

I cut all my birds into strips for fajitas or poppers so I don't have any issues

[Turkeybutt]

Neither taste good and yes lead shot does have some give but like Greg said you may not have cleaned it very well.  I'll take TSS over anything else on the market right now and I used both.

[Yoder409]

Not TSS..........but a Federal Heavy 7 pellet.

Gave a couple sets of leg quarters to my mom's boyfriend and he did them his secret way in a Crock Pot.  Long story short............apparently a pellet hit a twig or was just a flyer.  I bit into one back on my 6-year molar.  cracked it beyond saving.  A couple years and a nice (?) price tag later I have a dental implant where my 6-year molar used ta was.

You bite into a lead pellet it sucks.  But there's some give.  Tungsten alloy pellets forgive NOTHING.  I've gone to running turkey meat under a cheap, old metal detector.  7's are pretty small.  9's and 9.5's are POWERFUL small.

[ChesterCopperpot]

Not TSS..........but a Federal Heavy 7 pellet.

Gave a couple sets of leg quarters to my mom's boyfriend and he did them his secret way in a Crock Pot.  Long story short............apparently a pellet hit a twig or was just a flyer.  I bit into one back on my 6-year molar.  cracked it beyond saving.  A couple years and a nice (?) price tag later I have a dental implant where my 6-year molar used ta was.

You bite into a lead pellet it sucks.  But there's some give.  Tungsten alloy pellets forgive NOTHING.  I've gone to running turkey meat under a cheap, old metal detector.  7's are pretty small.  9's and 9.5's are POWERFUL small.

Responding to the OP, yes, I've bitten into TSS and luckily didn't chip a tooth but it was surprising I didn't. As far as it being a bad shot or something: shoot a pattern at paper and while the core will be uniform I'd just about bet my a$$ there's a straggler somewhere outside the pattern. #9 is tiny, tiny. Good luck with that.

But Yoder! This is brilliant! I'll have to try that metal detector idea this spring!


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[bigdrumnc]

Yes. You will find the route from your molar to your brain very quickly!

[Cowboy]

Yep. We have a hand held metal detector my kid has. Works great. Pin pointer.

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[vt35mag]

Yep. We have a hand held metal detector my kid has. Works great. Pin pointer.

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I picked up a garrett propointer just for this purpose and it would not detect #9 tss put into the middle of a snack stick. I had to have the bb in my hand with the detector directly on it for it to pick it up.

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[Guskie]

Hey VT, I have no experience with metal detectors - but have bit down on tss. I reload tss for my gun that I bought from Hal, but my wife shoots federal tss. We have a shot trap and I use a magnet to recover Hal's shot. I've found the federal tss is not magnetic.

Would that make it harder for a metal detector to find?

[Tail Feathers]

I've had to replace two toilets after passing TSS that I had swallowed previously.  Serious penetration. 

[RiverBuck]

From what I can tell, tss shoots through birds, clears brush, passes through trees and ends up lodged into a dirt mound the next county over so unless I pop some raw like a tic tac.. I'll never know

[Zobo]

It's not uncommon to find an occasional pellet in your dinner. It's happened to me a couple of times with doves and ducks and I'm fastidious in the kitchen when cleaning and fabricating game birds. It is easier to miss a pellet in those darker fleshed birds and in the leg and thigh meat of turkeys too I suppose. Never had a problem with turkey breasts however.

[Turkeybutt]

I've had to replace two toilets after passing TSS that I had swallowed previously.  Serious penetration. 

Okay there it is, Tail Feathers is now relegated to using the Outhouse!

[vt35mag]

Hey VT, I have no experience with metal detectors - but have bit down on tss. I reload tss for my gun that I bought from Hal, but my wife shoots federal tss. We have a shot trap and I use a magnet to recover Hal's shot. I've found the federal tss is not magnetic.

Would that make it harder for a metal detector to find?

I'm not sure, but I THINK it might be due more to the size of the shot. When I had 2 or 3 bbs in my hand it detected them easier.
Was hoping it was going to work better for me because I have bit into hevi shot 7s before when cooking the breasts whole. Figured a $130 detector would be cheap insurance compared to a visit to the dentist.

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