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<blockquote data-quote="nosualc" data-source="post: 1018536" data-attributes="member: 19537"><p>I'll add to the pile. This fall, I shot a 64" moose with a Barnes 175gr LRX at 3350 fps (.300 Jarrett) across a swamp at approximately 300 yards.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i60.tinypic.com/mcck5c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://i62.tinypic.com/2z57xax.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The first shot was broadside, just behind the front shoulder and passed through with about a 1" exit hole through a rib on the opposite side. The moose barely flinched.</p><p></p><p>My guide yelled "keep shooting!". I agreed.</p><p></p><p>The second shot was also broadside just a little further back than the first. It also passed through the opposite side with a 1" exit hole. The moose flinched a little more this time and turned to face us. The third shot went through his left front shoulder, and the moose fell over dead in slow motion. We found this bullet on the opposite rear quarter. It passed through approximately 5 feet of moose, and weighed 120gr.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i59.tinypic.com/2i7xnvk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I am quite sure that the first bullet killed the moose, he was just taking his sweet time dying. The 2nd and 3rd shots were merely insurance shots. It turned out that the .300 Jarrett was more than enough gun for this occasion, as a .308 would have been fine, but the style of hunting that we were employing may have called for a much longer shot. Good to be prepared.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, on the same trip, my buddy shot a similarly sized moose with a 6.5x284 at a similar distance with 2 Nosler Partitions and a Berger hunting VLD. His moose behaved almost exactly as mine and immediately collapsed on the third shot (VLD) to the chest. AFAIK, none of his bullets exited. He chose the 6.5x284 because he was primarily sheep hunting and his 7 RUM had been giving him trouble. He thought the 6.5x284 was a little lite for Alaska moose, but he is an exceptional shot and limited himself in his shot selection.</p><p></p><p>In both cases I think good shot placement was the key and the rest academic, although I was very impressed by the seemingly straight line penetration of the Barnes through all that meat and bone.</p><p></p><p></p><p>-nosualc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nosualc, post: 1018536, member: 19537"] I'll add to the pile. This fall, I shot a 64" moose with a Barnes 175gr LRX at 3350 fps (.300 Jarrett) across a swamp at approximately 300 yards. [IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/mcck5c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/2z57xax.jpg[/IMG] The first shot was broadside, just behind the front shoulder and passed through with about a 1" exit hole through a rib on the opposite side. The moose barely flinched. My guide yelled "keep shooting!". I agreed. The second shot was also broadside just a little further back than the first. It also passed through the opposite side with a 1" exit hole. The moose flinched a little more this time and turned to face us. The third shot went through his left front shoulder, and the moose fell over dead in slow motion. We found this bullet on the opposite rear quarter. It passed through approximately 5 feet of moose, and weighed 120gr. [IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/2i7xnvk.jpg[/IMG] I am quite sure that the first bullet killed the moose, he was just taking his sweet time dying. The 2nd and 3rd shots were merely insurance shots. It turned out that the .300 Jarrett was more than enough gun for this occasion, as a .308 would have been fine, but the style of hunting that we were employing may have called for a much longer shot. Good to be prepared. FWIW, on the same trip, my buddy shot a similarly sized moose with a 6.5x284 at a similar distance with 2 Nosler Partitions and a Berger hunting VLD. His moose behaved almost exactly as mine and immediately collapsed on the third shot (VLD) to the chest. AFAIK, none of his bullets exited. He chose the 6.5x284 because he was primarily sheep hunting and his 7 RUM had been giving him trouble. He thought the 6.5x284 was a little lite for Alaska moose, but he is an exceptional shot and limited himself in his shot selection. In both cases I think good shot placement was the key and the rest academic, although I was very impressed by the seemingly straight line penetration of the Barnes through all that meat and bone. -nosualc [/QUOTE]
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