Your right Figjam. A whole lot of wrong into bad choices, made with a marginal round for them elks.
More things have to be right and the margin for error is small, to use a medium round for elk.
When you see something like this, you say to yourself, this is why folks get upset at the cartridge, when it was probably more to do with operator error?
The optics on this was pretty bad, even though the outcome was a positive.
PS: His buddies should take him to the Scrip Klub, this year for his birthday, instead of hunting.