I lost a cow elk this season. 400 yards square in the shoulder. I did shoot again because I thought it was over, when I realized she wasn’t going down the calf with her had ran in front of her. No follow up shot. She crossed a county road and made it onto private. I don’t know if the bullet deflected off the shoulder bone, but I found round bone fragments in the blood trail. Load was 150 gr TTSX in 7 mag 67.0 gr of Reloader 26 at 3170 FPS. Maybe I was lower than I thought but my buddy agreed that the shot was near perfect. 2” in another direction I probably could of punched a tag.
