Best moose rifle for 300 plus yards

toebako said:
My wife used a 139gr Hornady in her 7wby doing 3375fps and shot it through an elk at 250 yards. Those old interlocks work great. We didn’t have enough bullet left over for a picture. Some of it left the far side but not all
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Hornaday interlock was the go-to bullet for Weatherby until hype and consumer demand changed that. In the almost 50 years I've used them nothing has walked away, nothing went more than 50 feet, ony had to take a second shot once and that was my fault. Thay can and do sometimes come apart, but as stated many times before, at what point of the animals death did the bullet fail! Except for some cast bullets, Hornaday is the only thing in my cupboard. Congrats to the wife.
PS. No man was ever shot by his wife while he was doing housework. ;)
 
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Leclairron said:
What is the best moose rifle for 300 plus yards
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I have dropped many large bull Moose between 100 to 300 yards one shot. Very rear I get to see clearing more than approximately 400yards
Open military sight, Full wood, Rifle No.4 Mk1* long branch .303 British, Speer 180 Gr. RN Hot Core. approx. 2275 ft. approaching 2300 ft. per sec. all hand loads.
Never had use for any magnum.
Ontario. Armstrong, Longlac, Nakina, Geraldton, Esponala.
 
Shot 2 moose at a ranged 330 & 360 yards 1 shot each. 7mm rm with 150 partitions, both fell on the spot. The rest have been under 100 yds. with 7stw, 338wm. Shot placement is key
 
When we say shot placement is key where do you put the bullet? I shot a bunch of moose over the years, Yukon Alaska moose so big moose, and I didn’t get many that fell on the spot, most of them took a few steps or turned around, they never make it far maybe at the most 20 feet, but still not on the spot!!
If good shot placement on a moose is in the boiler room then I really doubt that at 300 plus yards that moose went down where he was standing, possible but if you didn’t hit bones……
 
Have had them stand there with the stiff legged thing then fall over, those 2 long shots were lucky for sure. After the gun settled down asked buddy where they went, he says one fell backwards the other fell forward. Love those partitions. This was 2 years apart same location on a fly in trip out of telegraph.
 
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milkbone96 said:
Yep. I prefer the -06, and my Tikkas love the Federal Premium, 180gr Trophy Bonded Tip bullet.
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My pre-64 Winchester model 70 prefers the "on the cheap" Fusion 180 grain 06 ammo ... that's good cause it's half the price of the expensive premium stuff ... perfect mushroom and dead animal each & every time ... I quit reloading a decade ago when off the shelf ammo caught up to handloaded ammo in regards to accuracy, consistency & quality ... I'm not an olympic bullseye shooter ... I'm a hunter
 
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Grouseman2 said:
My pre-64 Winchester model 70 prefers the "on the cheap" Fusion 180 grain 06 ammo ... that's good cause it's half the price of the expensive premium stuff ... perfect mushroom and dead animal each & every time ... I quit reloading a decade ago when off the shelf ammo caught up to handloaded ammo in regards to accuracy, consistency & quality ... I'm not an olympic bullseye shooter ... I'm a hunter
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I get that. Mine really like the blue box Federal stuff too (remember when it was less than $20 a box?!) - almost as much as they like the Premium feed I use when shooting at meat at distances over 100 yards. I use the blue box 180gr soft points for less-than-100yd hunting & range stuff like checking zero, playing the odd game of 200 yard 'Battleship' (a buddy copied the targets from Freedom Gun Targets!), or just keeping up on skills, and have found it almost as accurate as the Premium out to 2/300 yards.
 
dan belisle said:
I preferred the 210 gr Nosler Partition over RL19 at 2900 fps in mine. Flat shooting as a 300 mag with more killing power. - dan
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Dan, seeking to understand your the quote above. I agree it has more power than a 300wm but my experience with 210's in a 338 is that they tend to drift more in the wind and ballistic calculator says they don't hit as hard as a 225 or 250.
 
If you can afford the factory ammo, 300Wby shows 2700ft/lbs of energy at 300yrds and 2400ft/lbs at 400yrds with Hornady 200gr ELDX

Should be ample enough 🤔

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I’m missing the one I had (VG2) and been thinking of reacquiring another due to the box and 1/2 of ammo I have leftover.
 
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mark2015 said:
Dan, seeking to understand your the quote above. I agree it has more power than a 300wm but my experience with 210's in a 338 is that they tend to drift more in the wind and ballistic calculator says they don't hit as hard as a 225 or 250.
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It was a good, flat shooting combo that killed well. Having used both 225 and 250 gr bullets on game, I never saw that they killed any better at any distance I shoot game at. - dan
 
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