.243 for moose

[SaltySailor]

Pop the lungs, down they go.

 

[z987k]

They're expensive for NR's, given the fact you have to hire a guide to hunt moose up there.

The OP is a resident and no you don't have to hire a guide for moose as a non resident.

 

[JGRaider]

The OP is a resident and no you don't have to hire a guide for moose as a non resident.

I stand corrected. I misread it as it applies to 'nonresident aliens", not non residents. Thanks.

 

[Big_wals]

They're expensive for NR's, given the fact you have to hire a guide to hunt moose up there.

What difference does the price make in what cartridge is suitable? If it cost $25,000 for a NR, or 50 bucks for a resident license and tag, the moose doesn’t care how much the hunter paid for the privilege of deflating its lungs.

 

[JGRaider]

What difference does the price make in what cartridge is suitable? If it cost $25,000 for a NR, or 50 bucks for a resident license and tag, the moose doesn’t care how much the hunter paid for the privilege of deflating its lungs.

It never makes any difference to me personally, as I don't give a flying crap what anyone uses anywhere. I know what I've liked to use over the past 52 hunting seasons, and why.

 

[cuerro viejo]

I stand corrected. I misread it as it applies to 'nonresident aliens", not non residents. Thanks.

My take away is most people over think caliber and would be better served going down in recoil them up. Moose are like Holsteins pretty sure they are looking for a place to die

 

[DangerRanger]

Unethical, I’m reporting this to LRH

 

[S-3 ranch]

It never makes any difference to me personally, as I don't give a flying crap what anyone uses anywhere. I know what I've liked to use over the past 52 hunting seasons, and why.

Yeah I could give a flying F what other people think what is acceptable caliber wise on moose or elk , I just know for a fact shooting a nilgai with a small caliber and it’s gonna run oft and never be seen again
Except a CNS shot

 

[Big_wals]

It never makes any difference to me personally, as I don't give a flying crap what anyone uses anywhere. I know what I've liked to use over the past 52 hunting seasons, and why.

I Misunderstood you as defending the idea that expensive hunts somehow require magnums. Carry on with what works for ya.

 

[rickyw]

They're expensive for NR's, given the fact you have to hire a guide to hunt moose up there.

No guide is required to hunt moose in AK.

 

[DangerRanger]

@Ryan Avery

Didn’t you shoot one of them Texas blue horses with a puny 6mm?

 

[Formidilosus]

Yeah I could give a flying F what other people think what is acceptable caliber wise on moose or elk , I just know for a fact shooting a nilgai with a small caliber and it’s gonna run oft and never be seen again
Except a CNS shot

Oh you know for a fact?

 

[Big_wals]

Lane’s Nilgai,
Shot 150 yards slightly quartered, went 20 yards.

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Yeah I could give a flying F what other people think what is acceptable caliber wise on moose or elk , I just know for a fact shooting a nilgai with a small caliber and it’s gonna run oft and never be seen again
Except a CNS shot

 

[ACHILLES]

Yeah I could give a flying F what other people think what is acceptable caliber wise on moose or elk , I just know for a fact shooting a nilgai with a small caliber and it’s gonna run oft and never be seen again
Except a CNS shot

I know a guy in South Texas who guided thermal/NV Nilgai night hunts for years. He was showing me all his night rigs one day and I asked him what his favorite one was for him and his clients to use.
He picked up a 300blk out bolt gun 16”
I was a little surprised. No telling how many they harvested each year. But he told me they can usually get within 50yards at night also.

He even offered me a free hunt so I could try it myself. Unfortunately I was working to much at the time to take him up on this generous offer.

 

[JGRaider]

I Misunderstood you as defending the idea that expensive hunts somehow require magnums. Carry on with what works for ya.

Where are you in West TX?

 

[Big_wals]

Where are you in West TX?

Pecos. You?

 

[6mm Remington]

It will work but it is light for moose as you know. Good stout bullets like a 100 gr. Nosler Partition, 90 gr. E-tip, or 90 gr. Accubond will work.

This picture is of a large cow elk my son killed with one shot at 350 yards with his 6mm Remington. He was shooting 90 gr. E-tip handholds. Hit her tight behind the right shoulder in the lungs. Bullet exited the offside shoulder in the center of the shoulder. She staggered 20 yards and tipped over. She would not have died any faster with the same exact placement shooting a 7mm magnum or a 30-06. Good bullets and good placement should work.

 

[JGRaider]

Pecos. You?

Midland.

 

[cuerro viejo]

Yeah I could give a flying F what other people think what is acceptable caliber wise on moose or elk , I just know for a fact shooting a nilgai with a small caliber and it’s gonna run oft and never be seen again
Except a CNS shot

What’s small? 257wby 115gr VLD? Or 80gr TTSX ?

 

[S-3 ranch]

What’s small? 257wby 115gr VLD? Or 80gr TTSX ?

The hyper velocity of a hand loaded 257W @ 3400 ++fps I am sure would be pretty lethal on medium sized game
The average Joe factory load imo isn’t going to get much shock factor in smaller caliber for nilgai, or produce a nice bloody trail to follow in the heavy brush
Popping them at night in a wide open field or tidal flats, then finding the heat signature is a complete different game .