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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1733641" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>464 yards is a long way for most hunters but big moose are big targets. From the spine down to the heart you have a lot of vertical leeway. I have many times witnessed guys who were not well-practiced in shooting take down big bulls at over 400 yards. The part of the story that would have made me side with the guide is the "last light" time of day. If you don't hit him hard with the first shot he goes in the bush wounded and you won't even be able to look for him. By the time you get there it will be dark. I've hit big bulls right in the boiler room with my .375 at less than 50 yards and had them absorb a second shot in the same place as they walk off a hundred yards before they collapse. You don't know they are dead until you are standing over them, poking them with your rifle barrel, and you don't want to leave a wounded one suffering in the bush as wolf or grizzly bait. You left it up to the guide and he made his call. I can't say right or wrong because I wasn't there but I don't fault the guide. He was just going by his experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1733641, member: 91402"] 464 yards is a long way for most hunters but big moose are big targets. From the spine down to the heart you have a lot of vertical leeway. I have many times witnessed guys who were not well-practiced in shooting take down big bulls at over 400 yards. The part of the story that would have made me side with the guide is the "last light" time of day. If you don't hit him hard with the first shot he goes in the bush wounded and you won't even be able to look for him. By the time you get there it will be dark. I've hit big bulls right in the boiler room with my .375 at less than 50 yards and had them absorb a second shot in the same place as they walk off a hundred yards before they collapse. You don't know they are dead until you are standing over them, poking them with your rifle barrel, and you don't want to leave a wounded one suffering in the bush as wolf or grizzly bait. You left it up to the guide and he made his call. I can't say right or wrong because I wasn't there but I don't fault the guide. He was just going by his experience. [/QUOTE]
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