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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1753670" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Shoulder shots are crap on elk, hands down the most common wounding and loss of elk are guys targeting the shoulder! A bulls spine over the shoulder is 10 inches down a cow about 7 and you have a three inch target to actually be lethal not just immobilize them. I've seen quite a few elk with the tops of their spine blown of get back up and get mobile, I saw one bull take a 210 from a 300 RUM that wiped him of his feet but he worked his way back up while everyone was loading up and no one could get another round in him, I finally got him dead three days later. I've cut a pile of elk with the top blown of or the shoulder healed from a shoulder shot. If you hit back you just knock the back wheels out, if you hit forward you clip the top of the spine, it's all crap except a perfect hit. Drop down a foot and back in the crease you now have a 10 inch diameter of nothing but lethal zone with a few inches around of lethal but not the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1753670, member: 13632"] Shoulder shots are crap on elk, hands down the most common wounding and loss of elk are guys targeting the shoulder! A bulls spine over the shoulder is 10 inches down a cow about 7 and you have a three inch target to actually be lethal not just immobilize them. I've seen quite a few elk with the tops of their spine blown of get back up and get mobile, I saw one bull take a 210 from a 300 RUM that wiped him of his feet but he worked his way back up while everyone was loading up and no one could get another round in him, I finally got him dead three days later. I've cut a pile of elk with the top blown of or the shoulder healed from a shoulder shot. If you hit back you just knock the back wheels out, if you hit forward you clip the top of the spine, it's all crap except a perfect hit. Drop down a foot and back in the crease you now have a 10 inch diameter of nothing but lethal zone with a few inches around of lethal but not the best. [/QUOTE]
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