Nice.......the .243 and .257 might be good on paper, but bullet weight talks. I can't imagine less than 140 grain projectiles on a moose, and that wants to be a bullet that retains most of it's weight.
Where we hunt in Northwestern Ontario all of the shots are between 200-450 yards around lake bays and meandering rivers. At the further distances I found that smaller caliber/bullets did not have enough residual energy to inflict immediate kills. I lost a big bull to a .308 180gr at 400+ yards, he was hit 3 times in the chest but walked off into the bush and we never found him. I switched to the 338 WM the next year.
