Thread: Thank you NZ Hunter!

While moose are big, blokes that I spoke with that have taken a lot don’t talk them up as being hard to kill from well placed shots.
@Stocky, I lived out on the plains so you picked up your whitetail tags about 4-6 weeks after harvest. Deer were always grain finished eating grain fallen on the ground, corn and soybean. Carcasses could have over an inch of fat down the backsteaks and rump.

Originally Posted by Dicko

While moose are big, blokes that I spoke with that have taken a lot don’t talk them up as being hard to kill from well placed shots.

While a lot of what I have seen personally would contradict that, I sort of agree. Have asked every client to neck shoot. It is a fear the cape will be ruined but that's almost impossible if caped with enough spare skin on a moose. Taxis have plenty of thread anyway.
But they wont. Seems to go against every fiber of their being. Neck of a mature bull is as large a target as a whole red stag front end, if not larger.
If I was going to shoot one I would want to take my own rifle over and that's where I would be aiming and confident of a clean fast kill.

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Originally Posted by Dicko

While moose are big, blokes that I spoke with that have taken a lot don’t talk them up as being hard to kill from well placed shots.
@Stocky, I lived out on the plains so you picked up your whitetail tags about 4-6 weeks after harvest. Deer were always grain finished eating grain fallen on the ground, corn and soybean. Carcasses could have over an inch of fat down the backsteaks and rump.

They don't seem hard to kill more hard to put down quickly. They can be very chill being shot and will stand and soak up shots. However if one goes they can travel very well. Shooting a moose standing still seems to have them stay there or pretty close. They didn't seem too afraid of the shoot and are often coming in to a call so will actually come back in after being shot to see where the girls gone. But the ones that get shot walking or have already busted you by smell don't seem to want to stop.

They are tasty animals. Mine was up in Muley Sage brush country I was actually after a Muley but you don't turn down any mature Buck in the Area I was hunting.

Originally Posted by Stocky

They don't seem hard to kill more hard to put down quickly. They can be very chill being shot and will stand and soak up shots. However if one goes they can travel very well. Shooting a moose standing still seems to have them stay there or pretty close. They didn't seem too afraid of the shoot and are often coming in to a call so will actually come back in after being shot to see where the girls gone. But the ones that get shot walking or have already busted you by smell don't seem to want to stop.

They are tasty animals. Mine was up in Muley Sage brush country I was actually after a Muley but you don't turn down any mature Buck in the Area I was hunting.

Yup. That would line up perfectly with what I have encounterd.
Being so big they may store up energy a bit better I don't know.
I am still baffled by the one that got 800 yrds from where shot. The Bush he ran into was ridiculous in places and you could see he had trouble with it as well as they were the only spots I found any blood as scarce as it was.
His shoulder was smashed and lungs deflated with a huge hole thru one of them.
Found one projectile only that deflected up near the spine in the back strap.

I have had similar experiences with yearling deer and other animals. Sometimes they just defy logic as to how much will they have.

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