Found the Elk that year also, with help from a unknown friend. Was out a few miles from camp at the bottom of drainage just hiking along midday. Heard a bit of blasting, a few hills over say 1/4 to 1/2 mile away, so just stopped for a minute to look thru the binos. A few minutes had past since the shooting and here comes a Bull Elk trotting along, about 100-125 yards away. Let go the binos and slipped the rifle off the shoulder, got on his front 1/4 and took the shot as bull walked by. Boom fired, and the Elk took off. Worked the bolt, Elk ran 30yards and disappeared into the conifers.Went over to where Elk was, at the shot, no blood. Then where he hit the tree line, still no blood. Got in those conifers and a guy could tell, few dozen Elk ,had been in there for a week or so, hundreds of tracks, ground was all tilled up. So couldn't make heads or tails out of the direction the bull headed. Start doing the main trails, wide radius, deepest tracks, had nothing, zero blood sign. Then 1 of those Black and White Magpies flew over, perched in tree 75 yards over to the West from my position and started calling his buddy Magpies. Well, what the Heck, Took a stroll over that direction and after a bit of scanning, there was the bull stone dead. 300 RUM had gone in front quarter, right over heart. Hit that main garden hose coming off heart and made a 30 caliber size hole in and out of that pipe. The Nolser Failsafe was just inside the hide on far side, had a decent mushroom curl, the Elk's internal cavity was full of blood. Pretty much had to thank the Nosler boys, for adding true Failsafe part, of that Magpie showing up!