Bite the Bullet

[Barrycdog]

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[reading48]

It seems it did occur in certain instances..

 

[Barrycdog]

And after that they would just break out the dental tools and start pulling.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

I can only but imagine the pain and suffering associated with that single specimen shown above!
J.

 

[relichound]

It was many years ago and I was relic hunting legally in a part of the Wilderness battlefield
in central Virginia, a part were the fighting actually happened. I was using a Metroteche. Well, I got a signal and
dug it up, but it was only another bullet. It came out of a hole filled with mud and water, but as I wiped
the mud off it I saw that there were teeth marks on it. It was a chewed pain bullet and
coming from the mud hole it was wet and looked like it just came from someone's mouth.
Eerie.

 

[redbob]

My theory is that the bullets were in flesh which drew predators that chewed on the meat and the bullets.

 

[John Winn]

And after that they would just break out the dental tools and start pulling.

You are just too much Barry with this dental thing you've got. In fact, you can be like pulling teeth sometimes.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

Yes, most "chewed" bullets are animal in origin, but if you look very closely at the example shown, those are human molar indents.
J.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Bored soldiers will indeed do some silly and goofy things sometimes.... including chew/bite on a bullet... However the proverbial mythical "Pain Bullet" isn't one of the reasons... People found these and made an assumption that actually has no historical or medical basis... In over 30 years of research I have never found a single period account of a surgeon or anyone medical related even mentioning this at all... The last thing a surgeon would do is put or allowed to be put something that could fracture teeth or worse risk a patient choking on it...

Animals such as squirrels, rats, mice and hogs also love to chew on these things... which the majority of them are...

 

[Joe Walker]

Most likely a hog