ok...so lets look at this from a tight wads point of view......Scottish heritage coming out in me.....
what projectile were you using and what weight????
can you achieve a SIMILAR outcome eg give you more hurt at terminal end buy changing things up,using what you already have...can you for instance go heavier projectile????
pretty sure 90% of us have lost an animal at some point in time.....reguardless of the range shot was taken.....its been an eye opener hunting with a dog ,finding something dead is just sooooo much easier...finding something when the shot wasnt spot on is much easier too...
Ive been around long enough now to have heard from trusted folks without an axe to grind...that sometimes shit happens and animals just carry on as if nothing happened....know of a stag that was still holding hinds 2 days after being shot too far back!!!!! needless to say he was dispatched and person responsible wasnt invited back onto that farm again.....
tales of three legged stags still holding hinds too..... sometimes they just dont get hit right,sometimes projectiles just dont do what they should...52grn hollow point speer arent supposed to tumble without opening neither are the 50grn version,yet Ive got 3-4 recovered projectiles that failed to open and tumbled.....note recovered projectiles as animal still died....
MAYBE a change of projectile type or weight will give you more smack down......I believe its definately worth exploring the option before forking out some serious coin on something bigger that cant physically deliver more energy onto target itself,most of the gain will go into hillside behind it.
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