Need tracking help

[brew]

i'm off tomorrow if you need help looking call me  360 280 3853   I'm in tenino       bryan

[Rakkasan00]

Hey,
Some of the blood was up higher in the brush and some looked as though it had air bubbles in it. I wanna say like bleeding out of his mouth. Lots! If blood. 5+ hours worth of constant blood trail. I feel bad for this animal.
We will have 3 of us on it in the morning.
Thanks for the offers guys. Might take you up on it if it gets to be later in the day with no luck.

[Stein]

I'll wager my guess, you hit behind the heart and below the lung.  Those are rib bones, bled out quite a bit and then sealed up.

[elkaddict652]

Rakkasan00 was the buddy with me. Stein that's a very good wager. Rib bones were my first guess. Shot with hornady superformance sst 165 gr 30-06 and i know they can do some real damage.

[Fullabull]

I once she a muley buck that dropped like a rock on impact, a couple seconds later he jumped up and took off. We found bone like that close by. We found him not more than about fifty yards from where I shot him. What happened was the bullet hit his brisket and shattered bone but I was lucky and a piece of bone shot up and hit a major artery next to the spine. Pure luck. If that had not happened, he would have gone on forever.

[Rakkasan00]

I also agree Stein. Our take in the field as well. Plus he's been going strong for 26 hours.

[mrgoodwrench]

I'm guessing this bull never turned up?

[elkaddict652]

No sir. Gave it a whole nother days search and nothing. Picked up the trail where id Lost it last, but eventually it went cold. I feel like crap, it's eaten away at me but I'll be late deer huntin the same area so I'll still be lookin. My guess is same as steins that I hit below lungs an next to heart. Blew ribs out other side and he just gained to much ground to fast. How perfect of a miss though? An inch up or left and he's done. This deff solidifies my choice to move to .270wsm for a new elk rifle.