RE: Best place to shoot an elk??
You know, that got me to thinking. I am going to call my uncle tomorrow and have him refresh my memory.
Also, what just came to mind was a mulie my dad shot a few years ago. It was kind of a raking shot with the deer facing him as it was coming down the hill. When we got to the deer, he was breathing, (he broke its leg when its fell, and then shot it in the head as it was lying there to put it out, though that didn't even do the trick for some reason) but was not moving, but was breathing through the wound in his chest. He still had one other lung that was still working. I have read of this happening on elk quite often where only one lung gets taken out and basically collapses, allowing the elk to cover some amount of ground before expiring.