I hate to disappoint you stickslinger, but I've never suggested "photoshop" about any picture. If you read many posts, you'll notice that I do criticize people who always tend to say that, though.
The point I was making, simply, is that any animal shot with a proper broadhead, that is truly hit through both lungs, will NEVER go a mile. Yeah, I agree these guys did a super job of tracking the elk, and even more impressive to me was that they didn't give up like some people would have done.
I too have tracked a few elk long distances, but none of them were hit well at all. I helped a guy once who told me he'd shot a cow elk right behind the shoulder and had a great blood trail for a few hundred yards, then it vanished and he couldn't find the elk. My partner and I went to the area, found the blood (which was great for about 300 yards) and eventually found the elk about 1/2 mile away, stone dead. The guy's shot "right behind the shoulder" actually hit the elk in the fron portion of the right hind leg! He couldn't believe where the wound was, and didn't want to believe he didn't hit it in the chest. We actually couldn't convince him until we skinned his elk and showed him a perfectly intact ribcage.
I think these guys did great to track and recover this bull, but anyone with even the most rudimentary knowlege of anatomy/physiology knows a Double Lunged bull can't go that far. Physiologically impossible. He MAY have hit the bull very high and back through the chest, and passed OVER the lungs and then it could happen if the entry and exit holes are small and the hide can cover them so the lungs don't collapse. A Double Lunged animal dies not only through hemorrage, but also asphyixia from it's lungs collapsing and it suffocating. That ALWAYS happens when both lungs are lacerated by a sharp broadhead, NO exceptions.
I'l love to see pics of the bull.