hoppdoc
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The easy answer to follow up shot placement is "anywhere you can hit them".
With Buff and Ele on an angling away shot you will obviously lead and try to hit the heart lung region if available--
If it is more of a straight away shot with a solid where will you go for-- a haunch to break the pelvis/hip, a Texas "heart shot" from rear to forward, or try to spine 'em high from the rear. If you go for center of mass going away then you may have to go thru the stomach full of food, etc, slowing the bullet down MUCHO .
Where you gonna whack 'em with a solid running straight away guys??   
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mikeh416Rigby
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Study their anatomy, and shoot to break the hip.
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JPK
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Use a flat point solid like a North Fork and, if the opportunity is there, take a raking lung shot. Not much angle needed to have the opportunity. Otherwise try for the hip as suggested previously.
My thoghts,
JPK
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mikeh416Rigby
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Good point concerning the North Fork.
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500Nitro
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As long as I can see the 3rd to the 5th Rib, I can
get it through to the vitals - heart / lungs so
that's where I shoot for.
If facing away, running, I go for the hip and break it.
Has always stopped the Buff I've shot, allowing me to
finish them quickly.
Had one Solid Woodleigh go end to end and out on a Big Cow Buff - and did it whine as it disapeared off into the distance.
Buff dropped though !!!
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hoppdoc
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Assuming the first shot on a Buff/Ele is a fatal heart/lung shot then it sounds like ideally any shot taken going directly away should "break the animal down" by hitting the hip/pelvis unit and rendering the animal incapable of fleeing or overtly attacking.
Is there any other easier way of accomplishing this?
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JPK
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A broken rear hip will hardly slow down a buff according to what the PH's have told me. But then a good sloid, like a North Fork flat nose solid will make the whole trip from rear to vitals - and maybe on out. I hit a going away buff, still moving pretty good after two in the boiler room, about a foot above the tale as he was heading down a slight hill. The North Fork broke the spine, traveled the length of the buff, exitted his neck, reentered the back of his skull and the exitted the front of the boss. He would have died quickly without the shot, but that one dropped him in his tracks.
An elephant though can't run on three legs. So a broken hip, which disables one leg, will prevent an elephant's escape. I have tried the shot and missed. But then the elephant turned a bit and I brained it from the rear quartering position. The hip shot isn't quite as easy as it sounds until you've actually been next to a dead elephant. The shear size just doesn't sink home til then and then the visible clues you read about make more sense.
JPK
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