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Originally Posted by Pike fisher
Great first moose. Congrats.
My brother gave me some good advice on my first moose hunt...once you pull the trigger once, keep shooting until it falls over  |
Yeah, my own experience/ opinions on putting a moose down are as follows.
A moose with a bullet in the lungs will generally die without going more than 40 yards. If a moose lets me I'll take a few shots, if I feel good about those shots I just get out of his line of sight and let him relax. I find a relaxed moose dies faster than one being pumped full of bullets.
If a moose is near a swamp or river I try to break his shoulders as well as get the lungs.
If a moose drops like a sack of bricks on the first shot you probably didn't hit the boiler room and he is probably going to get back up, get a couple bullets in the boiler room before you approach him, or he starts running.
If you don't know for sure you got him in the lungs keep shooting.