Taking elk with 30-30?
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Salty said:I'm glad you clarified that with "most" Bonez. I remember your post a couple years back where you took both shoulders out of a spike bull with a 458 Winchester Magnum!....
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no I did NOT, I ended up blowing the shoulders out with a 338 win mag and was some ticked off over it as well, I wasnt happy with the bullet preformance but wont say all 338s are bad because I had 1 bad experience with it
now the 458 moose well that was the ultimate definition in beeding out yer animal haha he died in the middle of the road
and yea I have shot moose with pretty much everything from a 30-30 to a 458 they all died sometimes it took a second shot oh well, Ive also watched them walk away when I didnt have a shot I felt was what I needed
and as for the kick in the nuts there bubba how bout I show you my pimp hand you old fart
No, no it wasn't. Unless you mean "feild and stream of blood".
Which makes that TWO animals i've seen bone bleed out more than i'd have thought possible. Ask him about a certain deer we got that had a rather messy and undesirable "arrow-jugluar-interface".
. I had to stop every now and then when we started to track to make sure i wasn't tracking ACROSS the blood trail instead of following it . Thing was bone dry on the inside gutting it.
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that was a sour spot as well you weener, it would have been better if that buck hadnt used his wench as a sheild and 
but thats ok cause he will be there this fall and I have news for him, if he heard about his buddy at the water tower he would know to USE his brains for more than a target 
this was a good clear shot @ 20 yards and NO it was NOT shot in the guts it was a bad quartering shot and didnt touch the guts but I wasnt going to allow him to get into the swamp seeing I had only been out of the hospital a couple days and amphibious was still recovering from his knee surgery, 1st shot took out his juglar and down he went , then he got stupid and got up and tried to get to the swamp while spraying blood everywere, so I drilled him again on a sharp quarterning shot in front of the shoulder and out behind the other shoulder
OH an NO sorry this wasnt a 30-30 scene
but thats ok cause he will be there this fall and I have news for him, if he heard about his buddy at the water tower he would know to USE his brains for more than a target this was a good clear shot @ 20 yards and NO it was NOT shot in the guts it was a bad quartering shot and didnt touch the guts but I wasnt going to allow him to get into the swamp seeing I had only been out of the hospital a couple days and amphibious was still recovering from his knee surgery, 1st shot took out his juglar and down he went , then he got stupid and got up and tried to get to the swamp while spraying blood everywere, so I drilled him again on a sharp quarterning shot in front of the shoulder and out behind the other shoulder
OH an NO sorry this wasnt a 30-30 scene
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no he was staggering as I recall
edited to add if you look at the blood the left is were he was first hit then he quartered up the road i was on the shoulder of the right side, also to mention I did learn moose in full rutt are STOOPID , as the cow that was in the swamp and the other bull that was there didnt even flinch when we shot this one and when we had finished up and left the are athey were still together maybe 100 yards away from us , if amphib had a draw we could have had 2 mooses that day
edited to add if you look at the blood the left is were he was first hit then he quartered up the road i was on the shoulder of the right side, also to mention I did learn moose in full rutt are STOOPID , as the cow that was in the swamp and the other bull that was there didnt even flinch when we shot this one and when we had finished up and left the are athey were still together maybe 100 yards away from us , if amphib had a draw we could have had 2 mooses that day
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ask amphib he guted it and didnt find any holes
bone-collector said:
OH an NO sorry this wasnt a 30-30 scene
Sure looks like a .30.30 did the damage
Is that old Ford still running those back tires Bones?
Looks like you guys would have spun out in the blood if you weren't careful.
Of the 17,000+ moose killed every year here in Newfoundland (just using last year's stats), I'd venture to say at least 25 percent (maybe more) are probably taken with the .30-30. Thats over 4,000 animals, every year. There are probably better choices, but the .30-30 will do the job.
Maybe it's a regional thing, in 20+ years hunting in northern B.C. I've never met anyone packing a .30-30 or heard of anyone although I'm sure some must. Mostly .300 mags and .338s. Maybe because of a healthy grizzley population, even if your not hunting them, their cleaning up the gut piles in hunting areas and they don't like to share.CV32 said:
well... and range. It's not uncommon to see your moose at 250 and change. That's a really long haul for a 30-30 on an animal that big (i'm sure it can be done.. but c'mon...
).You don't see a lot of 30-30's in the feild here period, even for deer (unless it's something like texada or something like that where the deer are tiny and no shot is more than about 60 yards.)
