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I have been pestering people here for a long time about my gun moose hunt, Wednesday, Oct 3, about 2:30, I harvested a bull moose.
Not much of a story. He was in a little meadow the far side of a bigger meadow. I sneaked in the trees, rounded a line of brush and all of a sudden he was there.
My first shot at 80 yds took out both lungs. I was using my handloaded Nosler Partitions, 250g, with H4831 powder in my .338. I used the lightest load shown in my manual but still have factory velocities of 2650+. I got pass thrus on both shots. He staggered 20 yds and I shot him again as he was quartering away. Then he fell. I've never harvested such an animal before. WOW!! Of course there was lots and lots of ground shrinkage especially as far as horns go. I'm going to start a new organization and am looking for Charter Members. The WSMAA - World's Smallest Moose Antlers Association -
But I'm still VERY HAPPY!! I harvested a bull moose in some of God's greatest creation, the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains. Praise The Lord!! I had 290 weighed pounds of hanging meat, that's with NO guts, hide, lower half of legs, blood, and head and neck. And still 290 pounds on a registered scale. I was 485 range finder measured yds from a camp which was about 40 yds fm a road. A friend and I got it out on my 2 wheeled game cart, two trips. I was very fortunate to have a young man, Chris, to help me on this butchering and retrieval. There are very few people as nice as him around but he is a bowhunter so I guess I should expect
that. Also, another bowhunter, Paul Navarre, had volunteered to help me but I didn't have to call him.
Thanks Paul and Chris, for your volunteering. I'm 65 yrs old and knowing I had help available sure eased my mind, you guys were a tremendous help.
A once in a lifetime beautiful experience and some good meat, just don't ask for pictures of the horns, LOL! Thanks Ray
Not much of a story. He was in a little meadow the far side of a bigger meadow. I sneaked in the trees, rounded a line of brush and all of a sudden he was there.
My first shot at 80 yds took out both lungs. I was using my handloaded Nosler Partitions, 250g, with H4831 powder in my .338. I used the lightest load shown in my manual but still have factory velocities of 2650+. I got pass thrus on both shots. He staggered 20 yds and I shot him again as he was quartering away. Then he fell. I've never harvested such an animal before. WOW!! Of course there was lots and lots of ground shrinkage especially as far as horns go. I'm going to start a new organization and am looking for Charter Members. The WSMAA - World's Smallest Moose Antlers Association -
But I'm still VERY HAPPY!! I harvested a bull moose in some of God's greatest creation, the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains. Praise The Lord!! I had 290 weighed pounds of hanging meat, that's with NO guts, hide, lower half of legs, blood, and head and neck. And still 290 pounds on a registered scale. I was 485 range finder measured yds from a camp which was about 40 yds fm a road. A friend and I got it out on my 2 wheeled game cart, two trips. I was very fortunate to have a young man, Chris, to help me on this butchering and retrieval. There are very few people as nice as him around but he is a bowhunter so I guess I should expect
that. Also, another bowhunter, Paul Navarre, had volunteered to help me but I didn't have to call him.
Thanks Paul and Chris, for your volunteering. I'm 65 yrs old and knowing I had help available sure eased my mind, you guys were a tremendous help.
A once in a lifetime beautiful experience and some good meat, just don't ask for pictures of the horns, LOL! Thanks Ray
