After re-reading your initial post. This is perhaps two years on the trot the elk has run off over the fence. Same fence?
No, different fences, different range, different rifle and load and about a 100 yard shot. The one last year was on public land. It went about 100 yards and laid down in some tall sage. I knew about where it was but not exactly and was studying the area and waiting for it to bleed out when some other hunters came over a rise, walked up on it from a different direction and pushed it out of its bed. It jumped a nearby (40 yards?) fence to private land and it was shot by hunters there.
I've been hunting elk since 1982 and these are the first two I've shot that I haven't recovered. The one this year is the first that wasn't recovered at all.
