Guns, Hunting, and anything else remotely related...
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I imagine that one is more than that.... I've heard the big ones can easily go over 1000 pounds...
The reason I would use as much gun as possible is that I've heard they have a very low-keyed nervous system, and that what usually happens is someone shoots one with an "adequate" caliber, but it takes a few minutes for the nervous system to shut down, and by that point, the moose has wandered out into the water, where it drops. Then you get to try to field dress an 800 pound animal in knee to waist deep water. There's no "dragging it out" of the water...
Similar to elk... an elk can cover a LOT of ground.... quickly, so if you don't drop it pretty much instantly, you have a long trek on your hands. And if it runs off into a ravine, or canyon before dropping? You get to pack out elk quarters UPHILL....
I'm too old and out of shape for that...
The reason I would use as much gun as possible is that I've heard they have a very low-keyed nervous system, and that what usually happens is someone shoots one with an "adequate" caliber, but it takes a few minutes for the nervous system to shut down, and by that point, the moose has wandered out into the water, where it drops. Then you get to try to field dress an 800 pound animal in knee to waist deep water. There's no "dragging it out" of the water...
Similar to elk... an elk can cover a LOT of ground.... quickly, so if you don't drop it pretty much instantly, you have a long trek on your hands. And if it runs off into a ravine, or canyon before dropping? You get to pack out elk quarters UPHILL....
I'm too old and out of shape for that...
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Even the white-tails up here do a fair amount of running. Three out of my four deer, text-book shot, dead on contact, and they run several yards before they actually fall over. Because I shoot a small(ish) caliber, (243) I even wait for a shot when the shoulder is back and they still run while technically dead. Even my brother's deer, where he literally blew the heart out of the body cavity it ran after he shot it. Go figure. (at least in the case of white-tails they're easier to drag and there is usually no water involved ).
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To my palette, which I admit is not as refined as many other folks, Moose meat has an underlying "sweetness" to it that I find unappealing. With the types of water vegetation they eat, I think it imparts a flavor to the meat that I am just not fond of. I would need to be quite hungry to eat Moose. Just my $0.02.
