A head shot isn't hit or miss it's hit or blow off lower jaw leaving a fine game animal to slowly starve to death.A trapper buddy was entertaining company last Dec and about to step out on the deck /shooting bench to try his .338 About 200 yards away a cow elk was pacing back and forth unable to make the barbed wire.She had what appeared to be a necktie.Turns out it was he tongue and lower jaw hanging down from a F"D up headshot.She was dispatched and dragged to the back end of the 1/4 for the wolves and ravens to clean up.............need I say more?...........Harold