Furthest distance traveled on a single lung shot?

[Bob33]

What is the furthest distance you have tracked an elk with only one lung shot by a rifle bullet?

I assume you would have to kill it to confirm that it was hit in only one lung.

[PolarBear]

My hunting buddy one lung shot one at Matheny that he tracked it over a mile where it had crossed into the park.  He drove out found a game cop, drove him to the spot there he shot it, followed the blood trail and when they found the bull 100 yards inside the park the game cop wrote him up.  He lost the bull, went to court and got it thrown out.   
Not with a rifle but We tracked a bull my cousin arrowed through one lung at Clearwater over 2 miles through canyon after canyon.

[gotcha]

Miles

[gotcha]

They are strong. If they get pushed by other elk. They will go long ways.

[blacktailcody]

No elk story here but my brother hit a blackie with his bow in what we belive to be one lung. The deer ran 2 miles and we never found him. It would have been my brother's first deer and it was a nice three point.

[sirmissalot]

I've learned the hard way how important it is to hit more than just one lung, especial with a bow. I watched my deer this year live for a half hour on just one lung until he laid his head down. My bull only had one lung with my first shot, was barely bleeding and looked fairly healthy, luckily I was able to get another in him.

[blacktail luv]

A buddy of mine one lunged a bull(archery) that lived for two years before a guy killed it with a rifle.  The one lung looked like a piece of leather.  They are definitely tough animals. 

[npaull]

TOTALLY depends on *where* you hit that one lung. If you make a shot in the posterior portion of the lung close to the diaphgram, it may go for a long ways. If you sever a pulmonary artery or main pulmonary vein on that side, though, that elk is going down fast and hard, no matter if you only got in to one hemithorax. Not all one-lung shots are created equal at all.

[Fishstiq]

Not an elk, but...  Single lunged my doe this late archery season, my first single lung shot.  She died there, never took a full step.   

Do I win?

[colockumelk]

In 2011 I think I one lunged my elk. He ran about 50 yds and stopped and was breathing hard. He stayed there for a few minutes while the other elk ran off. He then walked off out of sight. 15 minutes later I walked over to look at blood and jumped him up where I lost sight of him.  He ran another 50yds and bedded down.  There was a bunch of blood in his bed.  My brother and I watched him for another 2 hours and he was still alive although looked like he was breathing pretty heavy.  He would also put his head down for awhile and then pick it up again. 

2 1/2 hours after I stuck him with that first arrow I was able to sneak within 15 yds and put one through both lungs. He went maybe 40yds and crashed. 

That's my only one lung story so far. 

[Bob33]

Good info. I was with a hunter who tracked an elk several miles. We suspected it could have been a single lung shot but without a dead animal to autopsy will never know.

[MADMAX]

Single lunged a 3pt in Toutle one year just before dark (still within legal shooting hours)
The others blew out that he was with , I watched him bed about 100 yds out in a small cut.
He was coughing, head down, tail flagging up and down, figured I'd not push it and spook him out of that bed, watched him with binos until I couldnt see anymore, climbed out of the cut, flagged the spot really good.
Went back at first light figured he would be dead in his bed, he was gone !
Looked for 3.5 hours and finally found him still very much alive , bedded maybe another 100 yds into some timber, he saw me when I saw him and stood up, stood there and I dumped him with a muzzy through his throat and jugular.
tough critter.

[Watimberghost]

A huntin buddy of mine single lunged a spike, we followed his blood trail all day. He kept making big circles in an area that maybe covered a mile. Found him and put him down the following day. Much respect to such an incredible animal.

[Button Nubbs]

only got one lung on my bull last year (archery) he lived for at least 10 hours and we jumped him twice. found him in the morning and got him to the butcher in time he went probably 300 yards, tough critters...

[JLS]

TOTALLY depends on *where* you hit that one lung. If you make a shot in the posterior portion of the lung close to the diaphgram, it may go for a long ways. If you sever a pulmonary artery or main pulmonary vein on that side, though, that elk is going down fast and hard, no matter if you only got in to one hemithorax. Not all one-lung shots are created equal at all.

Absolutely correct.  A high one lunger is really really bad.  The "void" shot is more than likely a high and/or one lunger every time.  Very little blood.