Apparently Canadian moose are not as tough as their American counterparts... Everybody has some horror story where the moose traveled after getting shot.
When I shot mine in '99 I nearly had to shoot another. I don't remember what the guy had for a rifle, 30-30 maybe. He'd shot it 4 times and it was wandering around the field like a drunken sailor. Clearly dying but not quickly. A river was just off to one side of the field and we were scared it was going to head into the field. I had a Winchester .348 and had just raised my rifle when it finally went down and stayed... 2 of his 4 shots had punctured the lungs... My moose went down on the first shot and I didn't puncture a lung. Dad hit this moose in the ear, gross... -Curt Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:42:33 -0700 From: "Greg Fiorentino" <gf...@dslnorthwest.net> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Moose! To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <004801ca4227$aeff86e0$0cfe94...@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a cousin in BC Canada who is an avid moose hunter. He has a camp up in the Cariboo area of BC and favors a .270 Win. rifle. Counter intuitively, moose are not hard to kill and do not require a heavy caliber. Elk are tougher, if not as big. Greg -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:37 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT: Moose! I don't remember if I mentioned it on here but I've been moose hunting this week. Today dad shot a small cow moose, 208 pounds which should be very good eating. He used an 1880's vintage Martini Henry rifle 450-577 a 400 grain bullet moving at 1500 fps, the moose never knew what happened... Curt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20091002/0a959e51/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
