All good posts, and I can see the argument for both sides.

I can't say that I know 100% it was a double lung shot, but the blood was coming out both sides of the bull and was slightly below hip level on the trees along the trail. I watched the shot hit, but the arrow was travelling so fast, it was hard to tell the exact placement. The animal never gave us another broadside position to check with bino's.

When we went in to recover the horns the carcass had been tore up pretty bad by the bears, and after smelling it from cutting the head off, there was no way we were going to turn it over. If you ever find yourself in a situation that you are near an animal that has been dead and rotten for a week you will not soon forget how bad it stinks. We considered burning our clothes after getting back to camp.