When my youngest son killed his first elk he did it with a Husky 30.06 and Nosler 180gr partition at a lasered 310 yds. The bull was slowly walking ,his guide gave him the "Shoot" and he did. The bull continued to walk as he put another one in him both right behind the shoulder. He walked maybe 20 yards and fell as Jerry Clower would have put it "Graveyard dead". We walked to the bull and he said "Dad what do you think?" I said "Son, I think you were about 1/4" off on your aim?.
The postmortem was interesting to me because of the damage done in the chest. The heart was severed from the great vessels and the lungs were completely blown up. One bullet was recovered and one penetrated completely.
I don't regard myself as an elk hunting authority but I do consider myself an authority on animal pathology. This elk was dead before he knew it. Brought to earth by a lowly 30.06 and a novice hunter.
