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Dazv:
Thanks for the info much appreciated!!! Man I wish it was legal to bow hunt where I live!!!

crooketarrow:
  You have to live out of the county not to be able to bow hunt.

  Where you live.

RabidApache:
At seven yards this year I smacked a bull elk with a single lung quartering towards me shot. He walked ~1.25miles (as a crow flies)undisturbed. I would have to guess he died after 4-10hrs after a single lung shot. I knew this so I never once attempted to immediately track. I remember the shot so vividly that I still see that bull take the shot and walk off like it wasn't nothing.
Elk are tough critters. I've killed bulls with my wheelie bow with single and a double lung shot. I learned time is on your side (weather permits) when killing animals with archery. Its a sh!tty feeling to leave a mortality wound animal in the field but your chances of recovery depends on it.

sleek:
For sure leaving an animal in the woods sucks. Buddy shot 2 last night. One dropped right there. The other, jumped just when he pulled the trigger. He blew the shoulder. It bedded down but jumped when my buddy went to check it. So he left it overnight. When he gets off work were going out tracking. 3 legged deer bleeding in snow... should be easy to track right? Hopefully we beat the coyotes to her...

Dazv:
Thanks for the you time guys! It's surprising how far an elk can move with a hole in a lung!!!!
Crooketarrow I live in the uk which I hate sometimes because if our silly laws. Robin Hood is from here and were still not allowed to bow hunt!!!!!

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