Pretty good I'd say. I once saw a lethally-hit elk (.50 caliber bullet, not mine) go up over a saddle that had to be a 500-foot climb, down the other side, and into the timber, about a mile all told. It was a marginal hit, one lung, but lethal. The meat was nasty.
But let me ask you this--out of the BG animals in North America, would you say elk are as "easy to kill" as any other?
