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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 1753764" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>I'm not sure, but I think you meant that you've seen elk hit in the hump above the spine. If so, that's not a killing or incapacitating shot, and you're right. But if he's hit in the shoulder about 2/3ds up, that goes under the spine or hits the spine. The round will take out the nerve plexus or possibly break the back with impact. It will damage the spinal cord and kill or incapacitate the animal. The actual wounding data is present on BallisticStudies.com. That's what the guy that started this blog did. jrock said that part of the bullet was even lodged in the spine. Part exited the off shoulder. Hitting the spine with a 300 grain .338 bullet even at 700 yards should have either broken the spinal cord or crushed it from blunt trama, and probably didn't do the vertebra he hit any good, either. You may not like a shot like that, but sometimes its what you get, and its still a good place to hit, as long as its not too high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 1753764, member: 60453"] I'm not sure, but I think you meant that you've seen elk hit in the hump above the spine. If so, that's not a killing or incapacitating shot, and you're right. But if he's hit in the shoulder about 2/3ds up, that goes under the spine or hits the spine. The round will take out the nerve plexus or possibly break the back with impact. It will damage the spinal cord and kill or incapacitate the animal. The actual wounding data is present on BallisticStudies.com. That's what the guy that started this blog did. jrock said that part of the bullet was even lodged in the spine. Part exited the off shoulder. Hitting the spine with a 300 grain .338 bullet even at 700 yards should have either broken the spinal cord or crushed it from blunt trama, and probably didn't do the vertebra he hit any good, either. You may not like a shot like that, but sometimes its what you get, and its still a good place to hit, as long as its not too high. [/QUOTE]
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