I shot her with my .270 with 130grain Hornady Interbond bullets. Double lung shot through the rib cage so nearly no spoiled meat! She made it about 70 yards from where I hit her.
that can't be right... .270's can't kill elk!  i read it on the interwebs!     

srlsy, nice cow!  my first elk was a cow i popped with my .270 when i was 15.  unlike you, however, she was standing on a fire road at the shot, then rolled 150 yards straight down a canyon!   
