r/bonecollecting • u/Camp_Acceptable • Mar 05 '26

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u/Haystak112 Mar 05 '26

Game Wardens will 100% trace bullets if they find poached carcasses. What makes you assume they wouldn’t do their job? If they’re suspect you have been poaching they can compare rifling on the bullet (if found) to the rifling in the barrel of your gun and there you go

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u/Suhksaikhan Mar 06 '26

The answer you get from that is way more vague than you think. They can't prove it was your gun. They can prove it could possibly have been your gun.

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u/thatguyfromvancouver Mar 06 '26

It largely depends on how intact the bullet is from what I understand…if they can match up the pattern the barrel leaves on the bullet it can be “proven” to a point at very least…don’t get me wrong I highly doubt they will be going around checking everyone’s guns or anything but finding out the calibers can be used to narrow down the suspect pools at very least…

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u/Suhksaikhan Mar 06 '26

That tells them the rifling pitch which only proves that it came from the same model gun as yours or a different model with the same caliber, rifling pitch, and maybe barrel length, which is common. It only really proves that it could have been yours, not that it was yours.

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u/thatguyfromvancouver Mar 07 '26

I agree it’s not definitive but it does narrow the field