03-12-2011, 03:17 PM
It went pretty far. I am a little ashamed to admit that I was slow picking my target and by the time I pulled the trigger she was running away from us. I hit her in the right rear femur (which broke it) and the bullet traveled about 2 feet through her body and ended up just under the skin and you can see in the picture where we cut it out. Luckily it caught a piece of her lung and she only hobbled over to the back side of the hill and layed down to die. I am convinced that the same shot from a .30-06 would have produced similar results. I had a little bit of goading from the hunting party I was with otherwise I probably wouldn't have taken the shot. Peer pressure is pretty strong when you are only about 75 yards from a huge herd of elk.