Was Dick Cheny hunting the tit recently? [rofl]
In butchering deer I have found various hardware that did not contribute to the death of the animal. The projectiles (from previous wounds) that I have found include broadheads and their parts, pieces of arrow shaft (and one complete arrow shaft, encased in scar tissue, in a backstrap), bullets and bullet fragments, tons of buckshot pellets (usually in the ham) - a few slugs - and scads of .22's (poachers choice). One little doe that I shot had a thunderhead in her snout. Some wounds were recent with signs of infection and/or healing but most were completely healed with the offending projectile either completely clean or encased in scar tissue. Sometimes there is a green cheese filled abcess that contains the projectile (and the accompanying hair) with the surrounding area walled off by scar tissue.(the whole idea of an abcess) I have never found bird shot in a deer though. The one exception was a small six, years ago, that was killed at 15 yards with a load of #6 shot. he had a 12" pattern on, and through, his rib cage. That wound killed him, no question, even though the hunter claimed that the arrow wound did. The arrow wound had no sign of hemorrage on the cut surface but those pellet holes each showed profusion....translation.....the bird shot killed the buck and the arrow was pushed into his side after his heart stopped beating.