I had an aoudad hunter a few years ago peg a big ram in roughly the same spot with a 300WBY and 180 partitions at a distance of roughly 200 yards. The ram fell over immediately, appearing to be stone cold dead. We watched him laying there from our shooting position across a small canyon for over 5 minutes. When we got up to fetch our prize, taking no more than 10 steps, the ram got up, ran off, never to be seen again, even though we'd find small drops of blood every 200 yards or so.
That's an amazing amount of detail you have on shot placement for an animal that wasn't recovered. Have any pictures or video of the shot? Was your hunter using Barnes bullets?
David
