Moose bullet for tikka .243

[Treeman_MG]

@Treeman_MG up here your target distance may determine your bullet. Be prepared for for anything from 20’ to 400 yards is a pretty all encompassing range. The extremes are there for sure, but that’s going to be there. Being best prepared for the majority of ranges is going to help you the most. If you’re not confident in the longer stuff, get closer or find another target, shorter, good luck. Your greatest difficulties are finding a legal bull.

Pic is a 58” at like 20’, head shot with a 375 h&h, a buddy shot it, this last season. We hiked in after another set of bulls with a long shot at 6-700, I was designated shooter on that with my 6.5 prc and experience in that stuff, until the strip we planned on pack out being not suitable. Varied terrain is the game sometimes up here. Depends on your area

It’s hard for me to comment my last 2 moose were shot at 25 yards off a snowmachine, with a muzzleloader, the only moose I’ve seen drop on the shot.

Have fun and don’t worry about bullet so much, pick one and go, it’s been done before. Focus on hunt prep, being fit enough to create the shot and putting the bullet where it needs to go.

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Thanks for the advice, and sweet pics! I definitely don't plan on shooting over 400 yards, and hopefully much less than that. We will be in a 50"/4 brow tine unit, so making absolutely sure any bull we think about shooting is legal will be #1 priority.

 

[Formidilosus]

Form,
Not sure how you can do your lengthy write up on your First Ever elk hunting adventure over on 24 HR CF , describing how you fell off mountains, barely survived your hunt which many of us here did similar hunts when we were twelve years old .

Of course you did.

Then just a short ten years later you are a self proclaimed expert

on hunting big game constantly posting on your self proclaimed expertise .

Show one time me saying I am an expert on anything.

Better yet- post a single thing that I have written that is factually incorrect.

Many of us here have actually done a lot of big game hunting. Form, your claim of killing “HUNDREDS” of big game animals in just the past ten years just doesn’t add up. So as you say, you have killed hundreds of big game animals such as moose, caribou, grizzly, elk, mule deer, all 200+ animals in just a short 10 year period???

We take a lot of 7-14 day hunts for moose, sheep,elk, mule deer. Most 7-14 day hunts are for only one animal.

Oh tell me all about your big 1 week of hunting a year!

We take two or three of these hunts per season. In ten years we kill maybe 30-40 big game animals.

Thats obvious.

Form. With the limited seasons, limited permits, limited amounts of time, with travel time etc. , how does one go from a novice first time hunter 10 years ago to now a self proclaimed internet expert hunter having killed HUNDREDS of big game, including moose, mule deer,caribou, bears, elk etc. The circles I participate in , Wild Sheep Foundation, SCI, RMBS, DSC, RMEF, all have groups of very well traveled and accomplished big game hunters. None of the these associations members that I know from over the years go on enough hunts to kill 20 big game animals a year. This is what you proclaim. Form, let’s see your pics. Simple , just show us your top five moose, grizzly, Mtn sheep, elk, caribou, mule deer.

You really are challenged aren’t you?

Once you substantiate your claims and post these pics I will quit calling B.S. on you and give an apology on this forum.

Here For stupid people.

There are pics of 19 game animals on page 2 from me. 2 on page 5. 8 on page 10. 1 on page 18. 3 on page 23. 1 on page 24. 8 on page 33.
Unless I missed some, in one 12 month period (2019-2020), I showed 42 big game animals in a single thread that was about just one caliber, and just one bullet.
I showed more dead big game animals than you kill in ten years per your own admission.

Now you can actually read and then stop following me around posting your ridiculous, senile rantings… or you can keep being a perfect stereotype of your generation.


@PNWGATOR Never seen a moose before…