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Old October 26, 2009, 12:47 PM   #12
30-30remchester
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Join Date: April 18, 2009
Location: mountains of colorado
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I gave up on high spine shots years ago for this very reason. There is an area about 4" , directly below the spine that has no vitals in it. When placing a bullet in this area an elk will sometimes go down to "spine shock" yet in a few minutes will recover from shock and stand and run off with little or no bloodloss. However it sounds like you enflicted a bad wound if he was dragging body parts. This could be from poor placement or poor bullets we will never know. Another lost and unrecovered dead elk. What a shame. And to the man that told the story about his dad head shooting a cow elk and it getting away, this should be a lesson to ALL hunter that a head shot is the most inhumane and unethical shot a hunter can take. When they work all is good, when they fail a noble animal is doomed to a miserable slow death. As a guide I cant count how many animals we lost to head shooting and how many we found dead a month after season. With elk nothing beats a good bullet placed mid lung cavity. As hunters we owe our quarry nothing less than a quick humane death.
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