Moose shot POINT BLANK & runs away!

Wow that was strange .. Smaller bore no expansion 1/1000000 shot? Definitely speaks volumes of the use of semi autos for those antis out there are any rate... "This is what happens with single shots"
 
well i think the shot was okay, if he was hunting for meat and trying to do a head shot, it would of been a bit hard to do a good head shot with it thrashing around and the dog never helped in that situation but to get the moose going. I have had only had a few moose that stayed down after the first shot, and I usually use a bigger caliber bullet.
 
The guy in the clip has several hunts on You Tube where the dog is an active participant in the hunt as mentioned by a couple of guys here.
Yup, the bullet passed through and through(19-20 second mrk.) , and the next time the dog brings the moose to his master you can be assured there will be two shots just to make sure.
There is one clip where the dog has the moose like 5 feet in front of the camera man and the moose is pissed, but when the guy with the gun steps up with rifle raised this moose puts on the brakes and while watching the eyes widen to the size of dinner plates you also see the hooves splay open too,like six inches across.
Then there is another one where he dives behind a tree just as the moose comes by at full speed looking to hurt the dog or its owner, now that would be a rush.
They hunt differently than we do and I wont knock them for doing that.
The same with there grouse over there... a Bird in a tree with a center fire rifle...
Thanks for adding some entertainment to my Saturday evening.
Rob
 
One of my hunting partners has a scope setup with the iron sights also in use. Might have helped here. That seems like a wild way to hunt, that moose could have come right over top of that guy by the look of it. The moose was trying to lift his head immediately. That quite often means they still have some jump left. Question: Will the dog/dogs circle and push it back towards the hunter?
 
I shot a moose walking towards me at about 20 feet with a 338 Mag. I shot dead center on the sternum. Bullet angled around the rib cage on the outside. I watched the moose run away. I figured it was dead and just did not know it. A bone chip went through the heart and it found it 50 yards away. Pure luck.

I shot the chest because my hunting buddy (a lot more experience than me) gave me a stern lecture about not getting cute with head or neck shots and insisted i had to go for heart/lungs.

This video shows why he did not want me to take a neck shot.

A second shot is a REAL good idea.
 
Last edited:
Tikkam65 said:
I have been hunting moose and elk since I was 7 I'm now 43
And it took 25 years of hunting to learn break the front shoulder it will shrapnel into the heart
And then keep shooting drop that animal .
Since I follow this they all go down .
If an elk or moose was grazing the day or the night before the stomach will be full and push the heart and lung way up in the chest cavity . Meaning a heart and lung shot placed correct could and does turn into a gut shot .
And they walk away .
Click to expand...

07blackwater said:
I've never had a moose take more than a few steps after a lung shot and I've shot about 30. I've never shoulder shot one either.
Click to expand...

I agree with the second poster here. And my moose count is over 50 now.

While I have shot moose in the shoulder when they were quartering toward me,
I generally avoid hitting them in the shoulder.

I prefer the heart lung shot, and do not believe that an empty or full stomach makes one iota of difference.

A shot in the neck is a low percentage shot, and often will result in what is seen here unless a quick follow-up
shot is taken.

Regards, Eagleye.
 
There was an article in guns & ammo, Sometime in the past two years, I believe by Craig Boddington about effects of range on a bullet. It went in depth as to how certain bullets perform when they are used at much closer ranges than usual. And he had some examples of how bullets had been ineffective on targets at very close ranges because they come apart if they strike a target when moving to fast. If I can find the article Ill let you know.
 
Bullet type, calibre etc, all irrelevant. He just did'nt hit bone. It shocked the spine enough to knock it down for a few seconds.
Shooter should have shot again, but there's no way that moose is getting away. In a European hunt like that, there are at least a dozen other guns and dogs out there. That's why he's on the radio straight away. I used to have a trained deer dog in the UK, although we only use them to recover deer, not to hunt them up. Exciting few seconds, but no big deal. The reality of hunting is that sometimes the animal is'nt killed instantly.
 
Magellann said:
He did have time for a second shot, he should have taken it.
Click to expand...

It looks like he couldn't take a second shot b/c he was using to powerfull scope seting for that short of a distance. From couple of steps away if his scope was on 6x lets say he couldn't see anything and even on 3x the field of view would be measured in inches not in feet. Most hunters are useing to powerfull scopes to start with that's why my most powerfull scope is 2-7x32mm and least powerfull one is straight 1,5 power.
 
gunrunner8 said:
It looks like he couldn't take a second shot b/c he was using to powerfull scope seting for that short of a distance. From couple of steps away if his scope was on 6x lets say he couldn't see anything and even on 3x the field of view would be measured in inches not in feet. Most hunters are useing to powerfull scopes to start with that's why my most powerfull scope is 2-7x32mm and least powerfull one is straight 1,5 power.
Click to expand...

while i completely agree with you about the scope part , i can't see any reason why he couldn't look down the side of the barrel and make a educated guess with several shots .

i'm sure more than a few people have had a scope come apart at the wrong time and need to improvise something on the fly , i know i have .
 
Mate, he shpulda givin it another straight away, shoulder the rifle an aim toward the shoulder area, stuff lookin in the scope at 3meters.

It does look like a high shot, i did the same on a deer an it rolled an regained never to be found an just one spot of blood.. doh!
Wl
 
x0ra said:
Shooting on a bench with sandbags is rather different than shooting kneeling, 20 feet from a running moose through magnifying optics, which is by itself a complete different story than commenting how a bad shot you are, in the coziness of a Canadian living room, in front of a screen.

Said another way, being a Navy Seal in Call of Duty does not make you a Navy Seal in real life (though, many would think they are).
Click to expand...

You make a good argument for practice, practice, practice. In all of the field positions. The guy made a bad shot, and did nothing to rectify it. That is plain, and has nothing to do with those who are commenting on the video.
 
The scope was a major hindrance both for the intitial shot and any follow-up. By the time it was evident that a follow-up was required, the dog was in the way and the moose was moving first on the ground, then on its feet . Not a piece of cake like some here are suggesting.
 
Open sights at that range would have been good! Did you hear the hollering and the hunter going on the radio? I think his accomplice either shot, or found the moose. Original hunter was smiling to much to have just missed THAT opportunity. Jim
 
Redbearded1 said:
There was an article in guns & ammo, Sometime in the past two years, I believe by Craig Boddington about effects of range on a bullet. It went in depth as to how certain bullets perform when they are used at much closer ranges than usual. And he had some examples of how bullets had been ineffective on targets at very close ranges because they come apart if they strike a target when moving to fast. If I can find the article Ill let you know.
Click to expand...
Exactly what I was thinking and I'm sure I've read this somewhere before. The ft lbs at that range would be extremely high which would easily take a bull down like that, but might not have the penetration because the bullet simply disintegrates on impact. From what I could see as the moose got up it appeared like it was hit mid neck.
 
Looks like he got tangled up in his scope, dog and I'll bet some learned habit of preserveing meat at all costs. Theres a time to abandon the sights and just look over the scope or even from the hip, but if you haven't already thought about it then it isn't going to suddenly occur to you with an elg flopping around.

If you don't take the second shot when there's doubt, sooner or later you will regret it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom