Moose shot at 1100 yards
- Thread starter Winchester-1897
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Actually, you don't sneak up on a moose in a boat; you drive straight at them and don't change your speed/pitch of the motor. Moose can hear very well, but can't see very well. Most times they will just stare in the direction of the boat, but can't really see it.
Or so they say.......
I sure wish I knew what was ethical. This thread has brought more confusion than clarity....
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- Prince Albert, Sk
Only you can determine what is ethical for yourself.
I'd like to say it like Yoda but my keyboard doesn't speak like that.
I'd like to say it like Yoda but my keyboard doesn't speak like that.
I sure wish I knew what was ethical. This thread has brought more confusion than clarity....
- Location
- AB foothills
So a guy *can* stalk to within 100 yards of a moose, but *shouldn't?*
Ethics are so obscure.....
So a guy *can* stalk to within 100 yards of a moose, but *shouldn't?*
Ethics are so obscure.....
Should a guy that shoot's 10 rounds a year try that 1100 yard shot?, Or only guy's that shoot 1000 round's a year. Yup obscure. Kind of interesting reading all the different views in this thread though.
Where I live and hunt in the savannah of South Africa there is a saying: "if you have to rest your rifle when killing a kudu or wildebeest or eland or even impala the game in your neck of the woods are to few to be hunted".
We also have "shooters" here, but mostly we have "hunters" - who hunt because the hunt is a way of getting into nature, to be able to practise the eyes and ears and nose again, to appreciate the gift to experience again a little of what creation is, and of course to be the predator and walk and find and then stalk your prey until a single shot puts it down.
Even at 100 yds (the average where I hunt is 70) the placement is not ALWAYS in the perfect heart-lung area, as for kudu you have about seven seconds from sighting to shooting and then the hunt may become tracking for about 100-200 yds.
BUT the possibility of wounding at silly distances (and in my experience during 55 years of hunting and living amongst people who get their first rimfire rifle at 13 and their first centerfire at 16) is just too great; any distance beyond 300 yds is silly. At 500 yds you may not even know whether you had wounded or missed, and beyond 600 you WILL not know. I am also a Bisley target shooter so I know what the possibility is of hitting a mere eight x eight inch critical area on a stationary target at 900 meters- if the guys in the pit would plan to now and then move it just the odd two inches while you are aiming..... The bullet takes say an average of 1.8 seconds to travel 1100 yds, so one can wonder about a live moose moving. Luck happens, but at that range s**t is more likely to happen, so why take the chance? "If there is a doubt, there's no doubt".
If there is a chance to NOT kill cleanly then do not shoot - it is as easy as that, is it not?
We also have "shooters" here, but mostly we have "hunters" - who hunt because the hunt is a way of getting into nature, to be able to practise the eyes and ears and nose again, to appreciate the gift to experience again a little of what creation is, and of course to be the predator and walk and find and then stalk your prey until a single shot puts it down.
Even at 100 yds (the average where I hunt is 70) the placement is not ALWAYS in the perfect heart-lung area, as for kudu you have about seven seconds from sighting to shooting and then the hunt may become tracking for about 100-200 yds.
BUT the possibility of wounding at silly distances (and in my experience during 55 years of hunting and living amongst people who get their first rimfire rifle at 13 and their first centerfire at 16) is just too great; any distance beyond 300 yds is silly. At 500 yds you may not even know whether you had wounded or missed, and beyond 600 you WILL not know. I am also a Bisley target shooter so I know what the possibility is of hitting a mere eight x eight inch critical area on a stationary target at 900 meters- if the guys in the pit would plan to now and then move it just the odd two inches while you are aiming..... The bullet takes say an average of 1.8 seconds to travel 1100 yds, so one can wonder about a live moose moving. Luck happens, but at that range s**t is more likely to happen, so why take the chance? "If there is a doubt, there's no doubt".
If there is a chance to NOT kill cleanly then do not shoot - it is as easy as that, is it not?
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Maybe you should say, if you know you can, well whynot.
Deer killed with one 30-30 150 grain factory bullet, at just a bit over 250 yards. (note the peepsight)
And yes, I did carry out plenty of pre-season rifle practice.
Buck was facing 3/4s on to me and standing still. Rifle has plus three inch zero @100 yards.
I held for his white throat patch and the bullet struck him, two inches left of centre chest.
- Location
- AB foothills
250 yards with just a plain old turdy turdy
. Well, that just plain unethical J/K, nice deer!
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I know I can get a little repitative with this old photo. But I like putting perspective on what the 'old and outdated' cartridges are capable of in the right hands.250 yards with just a plain old turdy turdy
J/K, nice deer!
Thanks crazy davey........
- Location
- The hole under the tree
In the first place, WHY??? why would someone even chance a shot at that distance especially at an animal like a moose which it's very easy to close the distance on.
Yea it was a good shot but an unnecessary one. could have just as easily broken a leg or wounded it in another way and not been able to recover the animal.
weather it was or wasn't 1100 yards you can tell by the video, IT WAS TO LONG A SHOT!!! next time cut the distance in half and you'll also cut the chance of wounding an animal in half
And as for all this talk about whether or not it's legal to hunt from a boat who cares if it legal or not, the guy could have closed the distance by coasting along close to shore and when he was close enough got out of the boat and shot from shore, how are you going to get steady enough to shoot from a boat even at a close range, if the boat rocks even slightly at 200 yards your shot is off, so don't chance it.
Shoot from a reasonable distance and with your feet (or butt or belly) firmly planted on TERRA FIRMA.
Yea it was a good shot but an unnecessary one. could have just as easily broken a leg or wounded it in another way and not been able to recover the animal.
weather it was or wasn't 1100 yards you can tell by the video, IT WAS TO LONG A SHOT!!! next time cut the distance in half and you'll also cut the chance of wounding an animal in half
And as for all this talk about whether or not it's legal to hunt from a boat who cares if it legal or not, the guy could have closed the distance by coasting along close to shore and when he was close enough got out of the boat and shot from shore, how are you going to get steady enough to shoot from a boat even at a close range, if the boat rocks even slightly at 200 yards your shot is off, so don't chance it.
Shoot from a reasonable distance and with your feet (or butt or belly) firmly planted on TERRA FIRMA.
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Whats your idea of "a rediculous range anything past 100yds? just outta curiousity.
I kinda look at it this way, if the moose was trampling your buddy at said range would you shoot, or get closer..... the moose and your pal could change positions in that 1.5 seconds it takes for the bullet to arrive.. Now take your friend out of the equation, that moose could easily take one step because a fly was bothering it, ending up with a gut shot. I just wonder how many moose this guy has lost (dying slow agonizing deaths) while practicing for this one [successful] shot.
