The beauty of hunting elk with a bow is that you can get close. They also happen to be huge and provide quite a sizeable vitals area. I shot a cow staring at me at 70 yards, full frontal (my favorite) and the arrow buried in her back hip. She didn’t flinch. I shot a bull at 35 yards, broadside, who jumped the string as he was a little weary already but caused a heart shot placement to be a double lung situation that ended 70 yards, or so, later. They definitely can jump the string but unlike an Axis deer that can jump the string, flip around, do 30 pushups and make breakfast before that arrow gets there, elk don’t tend to be as fast.