Got invited down to a HF ranch in Falfurrias to nilgai hunt Thursday, I took my 270 wsm w/ 140 grain accubonds in tow. Ranch owner wasn’t comfortable with that round so he gave me his 7mm weatherby mag w/ 160 grain partitions to shoot. We headed out on high rack on a Jeep. We drive for a couple hours then at last light going back to lodge we see a big old bull on a fence line, put it tight on his shoulder pulled trigger and heard it hit hard at roughly 180 yards. Bull ran straight into brush, we then make first mistake and only waited 15 min or so bc sun was going down. Didn’t find any blood and looked for about 20 min till dark. We decided to back out go eat and come back with flash lights. So approx 4 hrs after shot we went out to look. The three of us split up, I eventually find him still alive only 80 yards or so from where he was shot but didn’t have a gun mistake #2. He jumped up and ran off never to be seen again, we found his blood trail with good bright lung blood but it went cold. Put in prob 20 miles if walking over next day and half with no luck. First time I’ve lost an animal and it just so happened to be a hint someone else paid for.
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