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TurdusMerula
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2nd moose for this season
TurdusMerula
MemberPosts: 292 Member
Today was a lucky and successful day for me. Again as I managed to shot my second moose in this season.
Beatiful, crispy morning. Temperature a couple of degrees Celsius below the freezing point. I had been sitting in my post in a youngish, dense forest for a little over an hour when I saw from the between the pine trees and spruce that a moose was walking towards me. I tried to figure out a spot where I can shoot it.
I found one and hoped that it wouldn't change it's course in the next 30 yards as it stopped to listen the bark from the chasing daschund a few hundred yards behind.
It walked into small opening between the trees. I pulled the trigger and suppressor made the peculiar sound as the bullet left the barrel. I heard it hit the moose but didn't see where.
Moose bolted to full speed and I tried to shoot it between the trees. I was sure that I missed the second shot but I wasn't worried as I was pretty sure the hit should be lethal. Then the moose stopped in a tiny opening between the trees about 100 yards from me. Very badly quartering but from the experience I knew that ttsx would penetrate without the problem I shot it into left side, aiming through the moose and it's chest with my x-ray vision.
Third bullet was in the air and I heard a loud thumb from the hit. Moose took a few steps and started to collapse. Fell down, managed to rise once more but fell down again and stayed down. I walked to the moose and gave it Coup de grâce as it was still alive. Most propably didn't know anything about this world anymore but I don't want them to suffer. So one more bullet into back of it's head and it was over.
Later in our club's slaughter house I saw that first shot was perhaps 7-8 inches too far back for my liking but it had punctured the lungs and the rumen was intact as I found out in the forrest where I had already gutted it. Second was a miss, unfortunately but the third had cut through 4 ribs and thought the boiler room and exited from the middle of the sternum. Just like I had planned.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
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Mike
N454casull
Mike
ETA.....while I understand it, I still crack-up every time I think of a daschund chasing big game......
N454casull
Our club has had 12 moose permits this year. Earlier it’s been around 17 in a season. In the early 2000’s when the moose population was too big regarding the goals our club had 30 permits to kill a moose.
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
I think I saw a moose once......but it might have been an elk. Moose are scarce in the lower 48 states. You're a lucky guy.
Mike
N454casull
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mike
N454casull
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
This cow I shot today weighted 378lbs dressed. It will give about half of that when you process it and remove the bones.
My biggest cow weighted 598 lbs dressed (no head, guts, feet or hide) so it gave a lot more
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
Mike
N454casull
"The Un-Tactical"