Here's another example of what could have been a bullet failure but luck played some role in success.
This was many years ago when my daughter was just 14 years old & she had her first elk tag. We were down in some deep, thick timber & had left the horses at one of my old camp sites because I knew the elk would be feeding close by in an open meadow.
They much have heard us walking in the crunchy snow because they made it into the timber & we could see them milling around waiting for the lead cow to take them out. I spotted the bull & had her kneel down quickly with her 308 & pick a spot & at the shot the bull buckled, took a couple of steps & fell.
As we walked up to him about 20 yds in front of us was a 2" Quaky limb with a bullet hole dead center through the middle of it, if it had been just a bit higher or lower it would have deflected & been a complete miss. The bullet hit the bull through both lungs but had tumbled yet still made an impressive kill. Sierra 150 gr.



Dick