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I flubbed a 400 yard shot last year due to unseen winds. Vertical position was right where I was aiming but wind drift, calculated later for a 10mph wind, moved impact about 13" toward the rear of the animal. Had it been a head shot it would have been a clean miss. As it was we trailed the elk over one ridge, across a valley and over another ridge before losing the blood trail.

We believe it was a high liver shot, just under the spine and behind the lungs. We will never know for sure but lots of dark blood and the blood we found high up on brush on the entrance side while trailing it support our belief regarding the point of impact.

If I can screw up a broadside shot like that I know I can screw up a much smaller head shot at much closer ranges.