09-23-2019, 02:36 AM
Thanks for the help! Just added some pics. Last year I shot a 10 point 170 yards out with my 6.5 Creedmoor (factory ELDX) almost direct facing slight quarter. Dropped straight down. Picked up the phone to start celebratory bragging only to watch him kick up and run into super thick timber. No blood trail at all. He was found 3 weeks later in a 4 foot deep ditch 100 yard away, as water started to recede, still almost completely submerged. Guess he ran in couldn’t escape and drowned. Bad shot (guessing liver and some gut) on my part. Regardless I wasn’t taking any chances on this big Sow even though she showed the signs you mention of fatal shot.