Yes, and our next-door neighbour knows a guy, whose brother is married to a nurse who works at the Whitehorse General Hospital, and her daughter has a friend who makes some spare cash as as a part-time taxi driver doing the run from the Whitehorse airport to downtown on weekends,
and he had a fare a few years ago who was a big game hunter from back East, who came out here to hunt sheep with an outfitter, who it turned out knew this guy's sister-in-law, and he told him that her husband and another guy were hunting together in the same area when that guy shot that moose, and almost everybody heard about it, and it was even on the radio that he had shot it with a 35 Reminton at very long range,
but they were saying back then that it had been
736 paced yards, however that could have been a typo, or whatever they call it when a radio announcer says something backwards, which they do sometimes, because, as my son-in-law tells me, sometimes it gets pretty hectic in the studio with one program about to start and you are trying to get as much information out over the airwaves before the program you are doing ends,
which can lead to the announcer getting mixed up, or at least frustrated, which can be very taxing and you can be really worn out at the end of a shift with all the other stuff that goes on in a studio, and whether he was stressed out and it was 637 yards or 736 yards, it was a very long shot and the hunter had his day and got the moose,
although no one is absolutely sure what ammunition he was using, but the outfitter told the guy that, if he remembered correctly, it was not a factory load that you can buy in a store, rather it was a hand loaded bullet of some kind that was made of lead that had been cast in a mold and came out weighing almost 250 grains, then loaded into used cartridge cases with some leftover AL7 shotgun powder, that some guy had given him on a deal,
and rather than throw it on the garden to give the carrots a boost he let a friend of his, who had offered to load up some special ammo for him do that, and it was those special loads that killed the moose, so I think
Supercub will do all right if he can find some of that good powder to use with those 200 gr bullets he is looking for,
and if it works out that they work okay, then maybe he won't need that 375 Chatfield-Taylor which drives
Gatehouse nuts anymore, if the 35 Rem with a 200 gr bullet will do the same job at say even 500 yards, as that other guy was able to do at 637 or 736, whichever it was,
which, by the way, is where I got the idea to try the AL
5 shotgun powder that a guy who lives in Campbell River on Vancouver Island threw about half a can of in on a deal for some bullets while my wife and I were in Comox, which is also on Vancouver Island, for a couple of months this winter, in my Model 94 Winchester 30-30 with some cast lead 180 grain bullets that I cannot remember even where I got them from after we got back home,
and as it turns out ended up being quite accurate with 10 gr of that powder, and got around 1350 fps, and that is almost slow enough to have a tree grow from 10 to 12 inches while the bullet is getting there, according to my friend
gtrussel,
which I know will make it a bit of a challenge to make a 637 yd, or even a 500 yard shot at that velocity, but they used to do it when hunting buffalo with the old 45-70 and other old cartridges, which is what that hunter wanted to do on his sheep hunt, was try to get a sheep with his granddads old gun, and that is how the outfitter and he got started talking about those long shots on game, and ended up he knew the two guys who were there when that guy killed that moose, whose story we would never had heard if my neighbour didn't know that guy who was married to that nurse.
Ted
