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Was out hunting with new friends and Saturday morning she stuck a nice 6x6 elk at 59yds. It was a smoker shot had one opening and the bull stepped into place and offered the shot. The bull ran off but not in a huge hurry like a hit bull usually does, no crashing through trees or hearing them crash so we waited to go check the arrow making sure he wasnt trying to circle around again. She knew her shot was good and when we made it down where the bull was we found blood and the shot had blown through so blood was coming out both sides. A great trail of blood. We waited 1 hr before starting our blood trail. Got down the hill a hundred yards maybe little more and found this pile. We then kept on thr trail and the bull started uphile to bedding area and we found a couple more spots he had stopped and bled out more. Until we came on a bed he was in and then the trail went from good blood to drops. All together we are thinking 500-600 yards of trailing then he disappear, searched for hours and they went back each day looking for him but no luck. It was a wonderful time meeting these new friends but very unfortunate to have lost a great first bull. I learned a lesson though always give the bull a good 4 hrs if you dont see him fall or hear him crash dead.