Got this guy within the first hour of the first day of my 7 day trip to NF.
He was exactly what I was looking for.
364 yards with a 300 RUM and 200gn Accubond.
Fired shot #1 as he was standing broadside and clearly heard the impact. The moose turned directly toward us and stood there with his head low.
He then turned broadside to us again (same side). My guide had been looking down when I fired and hadn't seen the impact. Although I was positive that I'd made a good shot we decided I should fire again as he wasn't too far from some thick cover and we didn't want him to get into that. I'm an advocate of shooting until they're down anyway.
Just as I was squeezing off the second shot I saw steam blow out of the entry wound in his shoulder in my scope, then boom! At that point I knew I had lunged him on my first shot.
He then shakily turned around and showed us his other side. My guide asked me to hit him again. He was actually falling down as I fired the third shot into his other shoulder.
When we got to him, he was lying with the side I was shooting at first exposed and we could only find one entry wound. My guide had seen the second bullet impact and suggested that I had missed the first shot. I was sure I had seen the steam and had clearly heard all three impacts though. Once the skin came off there were two clearly visible wound channels that converged to within about half an inch at the entry point. My guide said in the typical dry Newfie manner something to the effect that 'guess that feller can shoot after all, what?'. That was good for a laugh.
As has been my experience in the past, this moose was dead on shot #1 and the other two were just insurance.
The last shot was right into the upper leg/shoulder and had broken the upper leg bone.
We ranged it afterwards. My rangefinder had been left behind with my pack when we were crawling into position. We had estimated it between 270 and 300 yards. We were off by quite a bit.
This is the first time that I've seen the 200 NAB not exit, not that it mattered. This is also the first time I've gotten a chance to shoot game with this rifle that was further away than about 150 yards or so. Finally!
Had a great trip, 3 out of 4 in our party got moose and the 4th guy wasn't too serious about getting one anyway, he was mainly there for the trip. We sat in bear stands for the rest of the trip. Saw a couple but didn't shoot them.
Can't wait for next year!
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