Would you???

[jjackman]

If he had twice the width and mass on his head, I'd shoot him with my .45-70 with irons at 50 yards. From that angle I could hit him in the neck or head. However, with that mass I wouldn't shoot him.

I wouldn't have the confidence to try that with my scoped rifles. I don't practice the close shots often enough.

I would not shoot him in the ass. If I wanted the meat, I'd grunt or stalk for a better shot. Moose is too good to waste with a shot in the ham.

 

[Mumptia]

And I do know some poor grain farmers with large families, whoom after all the #####ing about banks, debt, crop values etc., still manage to 'afford' all the toys and luxeries.

I agree with you.

I am saying that having a mosse in the freezer it is important enough to a person with a big family to take a questionable shot.

As well, time available to get out in the bush might play a factor in that decision.

As hunters we try to take the best shot and harvest as humanely and quickly as possible, but meat hunters who pick up the rifles once a year (like these farmers do) are merely going out and shooting until it drops at whatever angle it is presented.

Not arguing with you, you asked if it was necesssary, yes it is to some.

 

[riden]

Hmmm...low head-neck shot is a target approx 4' wide by 9" high.
Under these conditions...50 yds...& if that animal stopped! Most of us would use a rest if one was available but even so I wouldn't consider that a overly "LOW percentage" shot. There is a risk percentage in shots!

I'm with Senior here.

 

[PaulT]

A 50 yrd head shot with no buck/bull fever is an easy shot, wouldn't hesitate. As for the cow, who knows, maybe I can move he/she will move. If the bull is moving (and he is), she will likely soon too.

A moose is a full year's meat in my home and dammit, I am bringing one home. And that meat is a big factor in my moose hunts too.

This is so true, with this years moose hunting I wouldn't of taken the head shot, buck fever hit me dead on, first time ever , even if I had taken many deers and one moose cow, but this year I was shaking so much and couldn't breath properly all I could here is my heart pounding so a head shot wouldn't of been an option, it would still be alive.

As for the meat, I also agree, last season I was scunked for moose and deer , it made a huge difference in the freezer, and the groceries $$$.

I guess it depends on how you absorb the moment when it present itself, sometimes, you just feel good and everything is perfect, you're confident in yourself and your rifle, 50yds is not that far, with a scoped rifle and enough practice, the head shot or hump/spine can be achived properly to take it down, some other times you don't feel that good and/or you don't connect as much, so all the factors in place make you decide not to take the shot.

Having said that, I also agree that it's not the best angle, this buck still have a couple of steps to merge in the forest, he will either continu or turn, still a couple of second to decide what to do, let go of a small grunt, assuming that we already have him scoped, ready to press the trigger.

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[DarrylDB]

If you would, that's your business, but if I were you I wouldn't repeat it on CGN for public critque.

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Paul, you hit my point exactly... X (No names, for those around morethan a year, you'll remember) took a further shot a few years back, from a canoe in the waves, on a fly in trip and no one said ####... (and rightly so)
Someone not as well known admits to taking a shot, albiet closer, and the ethics police jump all over him...
Paul, once again, the ethics police like yourself is specifically what keeps others from posting their less than perfect hunts because some jackass behind his computer instead of saying congrats, will point out the shortcomings of the shot or the bullet, or the cartridge...
Thanks for being so critical of others shots...
If you got out from behind your computer more, you'd see that not everything is perfect...

Oh, BTW, for everyone that quoted me, read back more than a page...

You know it boils down to what would YOU do?, like i said, if it was last day, with a tag n hand, and i knew he wouldnt turn, i would try it and no doubt in my mind make it, this past fall i was forced to shoot from a 18 foot fibreglass over wood boat from 150 yards, with the 270 scoped, i didnt want to take the shot, but knew if i wanted my moose, than it was now or never, there were 2 foot waves on the lake, and first shot took out his wind pipe, second shot was on the fall of the wave and took out his left knee cap, he only made it 75 yards into the woods were he fell over due to major blood loos after cutting his throat.

IT was a hail mary, with only a day left to my hunt, being 3 provinces away on a short schedule i could not afford to not take it.
It worked out, im confidant in my abilties due to my military training and the amount of time on my rifles, i know what they can and cannot do.
Would i do it again, if put in the same shiity situation, perhaps, i do not know untill it arises!!
Hopefully not, i much rather the perfect broadside, but it dosnt always come!!

 

[SuperCub]

Paul, once again, the ethics police like yourself

So Darryl, how does questioning whether taking a 170yd shot at a moose from a boat rolling in 2' swells is a good idea make me a member of the ethic police? I wonder why you wouldn't ask the same question.

The whole point of this thread was a question about taking a questionable shot at a moose. Most who originally replied said that they would not take a shot under better circumstances than the one we debate right now.

And up till now, no one has answered how one is "forced" to take any shot at game.

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[death-junky]

at 50 yards I would put my scope right on the hump of its back and pull the trigger.
ttyal
Riley

 

[303carbine]

I would wait for a better shot and hope it responded to a call to show a broadside to me.
If I was a trapper that was spending a whole winter in the bush then I would probably take a hump shot at that distance.