Made a bad shot on this Elk?
It wasn't a good day yesterday. I took my bow out for some late season elk hunting. Along came a nice cow and I was thinking meat in the freezer. She was broadside.Well, it was a few yards further than I thought and I shot low, but pretty close behind the shoulder. I saw the shot clearly and I was thinking, "should have been a little higher, but that's a dead elk." The arrow penetrated both sides and I could just see the fletching protruding. One and a half miles of tracking later I gave up the trail. I was following little specks of blood spaced every 100 feet or so. The elk isn't going to die, but I am curious if anyone has made this particular shot, or can give me an idea of what happened. I'm assuming I hit too far back from the shoulder to hit the heart, even though it seemed fairly close to the shoulder.