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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    Thanks for this. Ruguer M77 in .338 win mag. This was my dad's dad's elk gun and is easily older than me (and then some). The handload is named the "Stop Button": .338 barnes 210 grains over IMT 4350 at 2950 FPS.
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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    Thanks for reading along through the long story. I feel that I'd be remiss if I didn't include a few words on "after the shot". At this point the "fun" part was over and the work started None of the four of us had ever dressed a moose. We got him broken down and into bags and headed back to...
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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    I had heard this and was anticipating it but not to the extent that it happened. At that range I couldn't imagine I was missing but I expected some kind of reaction. He didn't react at all until tipping over. Many thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry you guys didn't get on a bull. It was a MUCH...
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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    It was not an easy decision to leave the area where we finally started seeing moose. But glassing cows and calves from a mile or more away was not doing us any good, and there had to be moose in the swamp. And we were simply running out of time and this was our last full day to hunt. On day 7...
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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    We had scouted some places to glass, where we had an overlook. And actually, compared to the hunting we do in Western Oregon, there were plenty of places to get high and look from. I had marked a bunch of promising spots from the satellite images onto my topo maps. We glassed from clearcuts...
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    Moose in the thick of it. ID Moose 10_16

    I've never draw a tag like this. But now I had, so it was time to start. I got plenty of help from some kind Rok Slide members that I've never met, so I thought it was only fair to post the outcome of the adventure here. This is a long post so I'll have to break it up. I had a little over 4...

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