Thank you! I will, as should you, and you will. I will still take 2 lungs and a chunk of liver autopsy over an unrecovered unknown bullet path, and I am one of those who has seen elk travel far with astounding wounds.
You only hit the liver if you angle that shot through the correct side of the rear ribs. It isn't a gimme, it's the luck of the draw. And I know exactly where that bullet hit and what it didn't hit, and it didn't hit the liver, because the elk would have died from a liver hit eventually. It did hit guts though, and missed lungs, so you are at best advocating for a 50/50 gut-shot animal recovery. Stay away from Montana, please. It's hard enough to find bulls as it is without giving them to the coyotes.
