I can’t imagine sending anything less than the biggest I can at a moose. I’m afraid it has become “the cool kid thing” to see how light you can go and still kill. I seen a kid kill a big grizz with a .22lr, it was an accident, he wasn’t trying, and he got investigated. But one shot from a .22lr...
Not to sound like a know it all, but I do have a few years with months at a time in the hills, and I have owned and used most brands of high end optics, and I still love my vortex spotter and binos. Just my personal opinion