Not a writer, but here is a really bad video of my daughter tagging her first bull elk in CO at 330ish yards.
7-08, 44 grn Varget, 120 grn bt's.
She'd tagged two cows in previous years, along with a few deer.
Nothing but stellar performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hlROYmo3wPlease pardon the poor video, coaching, etc. We were all really full of adrenaline.