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<blockquote data-quote="HARPERC" data-source="post: 837294" data-attributes="member: 30671"><p>I should clarify also, I'm not talking hail mary shots, brush shots, or brush bucking bullets.</p><p>Properly armed to me in that situation, starts with well constructed 220 grain .30 caliber bullets. The H&H .375 has worked for me best, most 300 grainers will work, but I ended up with 350 grain Barnes Originals. The only elk I shot with those was a cripple (someone else's) I shot in the back of the head, no real test. An example of a shot I didn't take was my first BC moose hunt. The wind came up before I got there and didn't stop until after I left. Flight canceling, hat chasing, the 3 stooges tying a brick to the horses tail and still getting smacked wind. The moose all disappeared into the thick stuff. We tracked and circled every day with moose 50 yards ahead. The trouble was I took a picture of our tied horses at that range, and no horses are in the picture. My one look at a moose was the south end, going north while I had moose in the scope, but before the crosshairs settled, the brush crashed closed behind him, and I let it go. If we had seen a moose on the far side of a meadow that trip, the wind was high enough to make that a low percentage shot I would not have taken either. I'm no longer agile enough, or narrow enough to play in the Pacific Northwest Jungles anymore. LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HARPERC, post: 837294, member: 30671"] I should clarify also, I'm not talking hail mary shots, brush shots, or brush bucking bullets. Properly armed to me in that situation, starts with well constructed 220 grain .30 caliber bullets. The H&H .375 has worked for me best, most 300 grainers will work, but I ended up with 350 grain Barnes Originals. The only elk I shot with those was a cripple (someone else's) I shot in the back of the head, no real test. An example of a shot I didn't take was my first BC moose hunt. The wind came up before I got there and didn't stop until after I left. Flight canceling, hat chasing, the 3 stooges tying a brick to the horses tail and still getting smacked wind. The moose all disappeared into the thick stuff. We tracked and circled every day with moose 50 yards ahead. The trouble was I took a picture of our tied horses at that range, and no horses are in the picture. My one look at a moose was the south end, going north while I had moose in the scope, but before the crosshairs settled, the brush crashed closed behind him, and I let it go. If we had seen a moose on the far side of a meadow that trip, the wind was high enough to make that a low percentage shot I would not have taken either. I'm no longer agile enough, or narrow enough to play in the Pacific Northwest Jungles anymore. LOL [/QUOTE]
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