Moose shot POINT BLANK & runs away!

roba said:
W.T.F is this with the moose and bedrock. So if an animal is down and wounded some of you experts are saying you cant shoot it unless it is laying on a safe backstop, give me a break.
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The issue is missing a cheesed off flailing moose at close range. Ever seen a bullet hit rock? With a cameraman, your dog and you close by why bother?

The dog will bay the moose again and you make another shot, simple.
 
Turkeyslayer 1300 said:
The issue is missing a cheesed off flailing moose at close range. Ever seen a bullet hit rock? With a cameraman, your dog and you close by why bother?

The dog will bay the moose again and you make another shot, simple.
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You know more than me, guess next time I go go out Id better garland the old 303 with its bayonet then I have the option of either probing the background with it looking for hard objects prior to shooting, or throw caution to the wind elbow the cameraman out the way, kick the F ing dog clear and skewer the beast. thanks
 
This is hard to believe!!! Dispatch an animal ASAP. The shooter had ample opportunity. If your worried about bedrock, you better not shoot your gun, unless you shoot at skylined targets. That would be safe huh.
 
I think there would be less fussing in this thread if more people knew that its the law in Scandinavia that moose hunters have to have a tracking dog available for all hunts. This hunter doesn't NEED to take any marginal shots or rush since he has a layer of protection that no Canadian hunter I know has.
 
The first 10 seconds of that, the moose looked as much as done...I have shot a fair number of animals that kicked, and flopped that very way, and never once thought of flailing lead at it just because...If you have not seen aninals do that you have not hunted long...The dog enters the picture @ the 30 sec mark, and remains so until the moose breaks the ridge...
 
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Turkeyslayer 1300 said:
The issue is missing a cheesed off flailing moose at close range. Ever seen a bullet hit rock? With a cameraman, your dog and you close by why bother?

The dog will bay the moose again and you make another shot, simple.
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That moose will be in the next state before it stops.
Did you notice how fast that sucker moved once it regained it's footing?
It made that elkhound seem like it was standing still.
I think our hunter had better call it a day and book some time at the range to learn to shoot.
If my 92 year old mother had been on that rock with dads Winny 92 in 38-40 we'd have been eating moose tenderloin for supper.
That moose was a gift for anyone who had a clue about how to handle a rifle. It doesn't get much easier than that.
 
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captonion said:
The first 10 seconds of that, the moose looked as much as done...I have shot a fair number of animals that kicked, and flopped that very way, and never once thought of flailing lead at it just because...If you have not seen aninals do that you have not hunted long...The dog enters the picture @ the 30 sec mark, and remains so until the moose breaks the ridge...
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A fair number? How many?

How many Moose, how many other animals?


If you have not seen animals that continue to thrash about on the ground and get up again from a poorly placed shot I would guess you haven't hunted long.
 
norskie said:
A fair number? How many?

How many Moose, how many other animals?.
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22 moose, 20 bear, and better than 170 deer though that doesn't matter...Dispatched many a farm animal that kicked and thrashed till they bleed out...Thats what they do!

norskie said:
If you have not seen animals that continue to thrash about on the ground and get up again from a poorly placed shot I would guess you haven't hunted long.
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The fist 8-10 seconds that moose looks in no way that it is getting up..Animals often kick and thash, until they expire...Had a moose shake a balsam for a good minute + where it fell in a marsh...Stone dead when I got out to it...
 
captonion said:
22 moose, 20 bear, and better than 170 deer though that doesn't matter...Dispatched many a farm animal that kicked and thrashed till they bleed out...Thats what they do!



The fist 8-10 seconds that moose looks in no way that it is getting up..Animals often kick and thash, until they expire...Had a moose shake a balsam for a good minute + where it fell in a marsh...Stone dead when I got out to it...
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Well your Moose and deer must be made of paper machete - any simple superficial wound anchors them. And heck - if they get up you just turn the dog loose on them to retrieve.

And just out of curiosity, how does one accumulate 170 deer? even with supplemental tags in our area you would look at probably around 4 deer per year harvest.
 
norskie said:
Well your Moose and deer must be made of paper machete - any simple superficial wound anchors them. And heck - if they get up you just turn the dog loose on them to retrieve..
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Drinking????

norskie said:
And just out of curiosity, how does one accumulate 170 deer? even with supplemental tags in our area you would look at probably around 4 deer per year harvest.
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Party hunting with a gang...
 
captonion said:
Drinking????



Party hunting with a gang...
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I should be drinking - might make the story more believable.

We don't party hunt in Alberta. It's against the law.

The 6 Bulls I have killed - none thrashed like that. A odd "reflex" kick yes. The 15 or so others I have been with on (buddies or family) and watched them shoot, none carry on like this unless they are poorly hit, and in that case they receive another. The 47" Bull I killed this year was at around 250 yards - had he fell and thrashed like this - I would have sat to anchor him again. Many of the Moose kills I have been in on result in them falling, standing and taking another. A 45" Bull of a friend took 4 through the lungs in that manner - and he was in essence dead on the first. If we had not anchored him the potential to lose him existed.

We used to draw every couple of years - now it takes 10 to get a tag.
 
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