Does this happen often?

A friend of mine took a spike in the Colockum WFA this year. As the story goes he was driving down a two track and ran into a hunter who told him he had seen and shot 4 times at a spike at sun up. The hunter was shooting into the sun and was not sure if he hit the bull. The hunter looked for an hour with no luck tracking the bull and figured he missed. He wished my friend luck and walked on down the road. My friend drives another 300 yards down the road and spots a spike bedded down 50 yards off the road. He glasses the bull and sees it is panting heavily and looks a little out of sorts. Figuring this is the spike the guy had shot at he watchs it for a while longer seeeing if it drops. Instead the bull regains it stamina and stands up at which point my freind walks off the raod, takes the shot and drops the elk. Upon reaching the animal my freind discovers the bull had been shot in the back leg (bad enough that the animal would eventually die from the injury). Upon dressing out and skining the animal he discovers the bull had also been shot in the backstraps between the spine and ribs.

If he had not been there to harvest this animal it would have met the same fate as the bull you found, coyote food.

Such a waste.