On larger animals, here are bullets recovered.
Found both my shots on the buff. He went down with the first shot, front half immediately collapsing and then ass end crumped. He struggled and within 1-2 seconds had regained his feet, I had to slide over a bit for second shot to clear some thicker/larger branches/brush and hit him with the second barrel, at least I thought. He took off at the shot. We could see lots of blood when to stood back up, so knew he was mortally wounded, and heard a slow, low, very abbreviated bellow within a few seconds of his departure. High five, and chilled for about 10-min, took photos of the fresh spoor and final tracks we had followed…and it was time to approach. From where he stood, fell and took off, blood everywhere and heavy spray to where he laid, which was within sight of where he originally stood, went maybe 25-30 yards tops.
On approach just one massive wound right on the point of the shoulder, so we figured my second shot must have struck branch or something. Washington for photos, the entry looked weird and wondered if my first shot tumbled or just how his old hide sagged on the shoulder when standing. The next day Scott had a perfectly mushroomed 500gr Northfork Semi, so still scratching me head on the weird entry shape. It wasn’t until 2 days later when the skinner gave us the other bullet he’d found and forgot to give Scott. So both bullets hit home, just happened to cut the same hole even with the second one clearly tripping in the brush and tumbling into him. The mushroomed shot was under the hide on the off shoulder. The tumbled one was slightly quartering towards me when I fired, and it was found lodged sideways in an offside rib further back.
