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With the exception of the three I took with a 45 Colt, a 45/70, and 30/06, the rest, about eleven Bulls were taken with a 340 Bee. Those went down immediately and emphatically and some were up to five hundred yards away. The one eighty-yard sprinter was probably the smallest bull of the bunch and was a satellite bull chasing a cow at the time. Probably thought the herd bull jabbed him one in the ribs..

Edited: most of these were broadside chest shots or close as in slight angles away or toward me with the exception of an Idaho bull who stood 150 yards facing away/ butt toward me but looking back at me. A 250-gr Nos Part in the short ribs never got in but traveled atop and through the ribs exited the hide, re-entered at the base of the neck, broke it and exited the far side.

That's the nice part about a big cartridge and a big bullet. They all drop in their tracks but he made no more tracks.