Fawn,
I have killed only one elk with a Barnes. I didn't think about it at the time, but I don't remember a blood trail also. It traveled about fory yards and went down. I knew it went down, because I saw it. But it still took ten to fifteen minutes to find it. In fact I practacally fell over it. Everything was covered with frost, including the elk. It was great camo.
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