I have hunted with several pumpkin heads and find them generally good company. Below is a bit of a rundown from the hunter on the shots. My mistake it was six shots and a final from my 404. Was a tough bull. Was dead after the first shot but didn't know it. I do remember giving the hunter the knife in the end and going and sitting in the Toyota with his wife while the autopsy continued. As an aside his wife shot a bull with a Paradox and shot it very well with one shot.
1.Hit middle of right side of trunk, thru liver, diaphragm and to frontal lobe of left lung, probably ending up in frontal left chest or just outside it.
2. First running shot: Upper trunk on left a bit forward of middle, ranging along top of ribs in forward half of saddle muscle
3. Broadside shot straight up line of left leg, thru lungs and should have been in opposite shoulder in same alignment
4. Second running shot at greater distance. I later remembered seeing blood just behind his left elbow as we walked up on him and so that shot must have been deflected by all the brush/trees he was running past and just grazed him up middle of brisket beween his legs, explaining the long skin wound we found there. His angle of that run would not fit with an undeflected direct bullet hit in that alignment.
5/6/7. Trying to kill him with spine shot to neck from front. One of these went thru right ear, grazed off right neck and hit front of his right shoulder. One may have gone thru his nose and into front of neck. One went thru left ear and probably into left side of neck.
8. A shot more from rearward angle down into neck that put him down but did not break his neck.
9. Your .404 bullet from top of shoulder a bit on left side, down into spine and likely farther.