The shot's high. Compare this photo to the diagram. He barely got it under the spine. Contrary to popular myth, there is no dead air space there. He clipped the very top of the lungs and it took a while to bleed out inside. A shade higher would have spined it and it would have dropped like a sack of rocks.
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