Got a Moose yesterday.
Was a snap shot @ 70 yards....as he was moving through "cut".
7mm Mag, 150gr E-Tip @ 2900 fps.
Bullet went through a 1.25" poplar....FFS.
Tumbled.
Base of bullet went through 2 rubs(broke).
Back part of lung wrecked, liver wrecked.
1 petal also hit guts( looked like grenade went off inside him).
He piled up after 20 yards.
Completely bled out inside....must have severed main artery.
Funniest is I seen a bigger moose in a.m but no shot.
I decided to "track him" after morning hunt.
But rifle got snow on action and was freezing up.
Thought I better test it...took 6 cycles and 6 pulls of trigger before it fired.
Dried out best I could. I usually carry some zippo fluid in my pack for fires and to de-ice action.
So after that I spent 4 hours in knee deep snow tracking the other bull.
By 2 p.m I was sweated up, exhausted, and bull led me around for 1 mile through nasty thick country.
I should have never went in after him becauae he had bedded less than 200 yards from where I spotted him.
Had I left him he would have came back out in evening to feed in same part of cut.
Then it started snowing and wind was howling so called it quits.
Tracking Moose rarely works for.me...lol.
So I got back to snow machine, packed up and headed home and this little guy came running out right in front of me...and he hung around just off trail long enough for me to uncase and load rifle and time for 1 quick shot.
It was a mess but got cleaned up with shovel fulls of snow.
Really impressed with performance of E.tip bullet... devastating even after hitting that tree.
Was a snap shot @ 70 yards....as he was moving through "cut".
7mm Mag, 150gr E-Tip @ 2900 fps.
Bullet went through a 1.25" poplar....FFS.
Tumbled.
Base of bullet went through 2 rubs(broke).
Back part of lung wrecked, liver wrecked.
1 petal also hit guts( looked like grenade went off inside him).
He piled up after 20 yards.
Completely bled out inside....must have severed main artery.
Funniest is I seen a bigger moose in a.m but no shot.
I decided to "track him" after morning hunt.
But rifle got snow on action and was freezing up.
Thought I better test it...took 6 cycles and 6 pulls of trigger before it fired.
Dried out best I could. I usually carry some zippo fluid in my pack for fires and to de-ice action.
So after that I spent 4 hours in knee deep snow tracking the other bull.
By 2 p.m I was sweated up, exhausted, and bull led me around for 1 mile through nasty thick country.
I should have never went in after him becauae he had bedded less than 200 yards from where I spotted him.
Had I left him he would have came back out in evening to feed in same part of cut.
Then it started snowing and wind was howling so called it quits.
Tracking Moose rarely works for.me...lol.
So I got back to snow machine, packed up and headed home and this little guy came running out right in front of me...and he hung around just off trail long enough for me to uncase and load rifle and time for 1 quick shot.
It was a mess but got cleaned up with shovel fulls of snow.
Really impressed with performance of E.tip bullet... devastating even after hitting that tree.